---
title: "TikTok Transcript API"
method: GET
path: "/v1/tiktok/transcript"
tags: ["TikTok"]
---

# TikTok Transcript API

`GET /v1/tiktok/transcript`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.captapi.com`
- URL: `https://api.captapi.com/v1/tiktok/transcript`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Extract timestamped transcripts from any public TikTok video in a single request.

The TikTok Transcript API lets you extract the full, timestamped transcript for TikTok transcript with a single REST call. No OAuth, no infrastructure to maintain, and no platform SDKs — send the request, get clean structured JSON back. Pass cache=true to serve from the 24h cache (0 credits on hit); default is always fresh. Selected profile endpoints also accept cacheMaxAge=1d|3d|7d|14d|30d.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/tiktok-transcript

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `language` string
- `cache` boolean

## Response `200`

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

- object
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `data` object, required
    - `platform` string: Platform identifier for this response (matches the endpoint's platform).
    - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
    - `language` string: Detected or requested language code.
    - `text` string: Full transcript — segment texts joined with a single space. Same key as YouTube/Rumble transcript endpoints.
    - `segments` object[]
      - `text` string: Full transcript — segment texts joined with a single space. Same key as YouTube/Rumble transcript endpoints.
      - `startMs` integer: Start ms. Example: 340.
      - `endMs` integer: End ms. Example: 3420.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: wrong platform URL, unknown endpoint, or an invalid parameter value. Not billed.
- `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked API key. Not billed.
- `402`: Not enough credits for this request. Not billed.
- `404`: The resource does not exist or is not public. Not billed.
- `422`: A required parameter is missing or has the wrong type. Not billed.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Wait for Retry-After seconds. Not billed.
- `502`: The platform could not be reached or returned nothing usable. Retryable, not billed. 503 and 504 use the same envelope.

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