TikTok Transcript

POST1 Credit

https://api.crawlkit.sh/v1/crawl/tiktok/transcript

Check whether a public TikTok post exposes transcript/subtitle files and return the available subtitle URLs by language. Accepts a public post URL or numeric video ID.

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Authentication

Send your Crawlkit API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.

Authorization: Bearer ck_your_api_key

Request Parameters

Send these JSON body fields in your request payload.

Name	Type	Description
`url`	string	Public target URL.

Example Request

Use direct HTTP requests against the public API base URL.

Example request

1const response = await fetch('https://api.crawlkit.sh/v1/crawl/tiktok/transcript', {2  method: 'POST',3  headers: {4    'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',5    'Content-Type': 'application/json'6  },7  body: JSON.stringify({8  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7234567890123456789"9})10});11 12const { data } = await response.json();13console.log(data.transcript.available, data.transcript.subtitles.length);

Response

Success (200 OK): Returns service-specific structured payload.

Success response (200 OK)

1{2  "success": true,3  "data": {4    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7234567890123456789",5    "transcript": {6      "available": true,7      "subtitles": [8        {9          "language": "en",10          "format": "webvtt",11          "url": "https://v16-web.tiktokcdn.com/subtitle/..."12        }13      ]14    },15    "timing": {16      "total": 182017    },18    "creditsUsed": 1,19    "creditsRemaining": 9520  }21}