Get video transcript — TikTok API

Returns the transcript for a video, in WebVTT format. Defaults to the video’s own auto-generated transcript; pass language for a machine-translated subtitle track.

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GET/v1/tiktok/videos/{videoId}/transcript1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
      "https://konbiniapi.com/ns/social#"
    ],
    "type": "Document",
    "id": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7527278440291126550/transcript/en-US",
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7527278440291126550",
    "mediaType": "text/vtt",
    "language": "en-US",
    "size": 1024,
    "source": "ASR",
    "content": "WEBVTT\n\n00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000\nHello everyone"
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/tiktok/videos/{videoId}/transcript. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

Built for

Keyword and topic extraction from video content at scale
Accessibility and subtitle generation for content pipelines
Multilingual content research and translation workflows

Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/tiktok/videos/7527278440291126550/transcript", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters2

videoIdrequiredIn · PathType · stringTikTok video ID
languageIn · QueryType · stringBCP47 language code of a machine-translated subtitle track. Defaults to the video’s own auto-generated transcript.original | ar-SA | az-AZ | ca-ES | ceb-PH | cs-CZ | da-DK | de-DE | en-US | es-ES | et-EE | fi-FI | fil-PH | fr-FR | ga-IE | he-IL | hr-HR | id-ID | it-IT | ja-JP | ko-KR | lv-LV | lt-LT | ms-MY | nb-NO | nl-NL | pl-PL | pt-PT | ru-RU | sw-SW | sv-SE | th-TH | uk-UA | vi-VN | zh-Hans-CN | zh-Hant-CN

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