TikTok Transcript

Extracts the transcript, captions, or subtitles from a TikTok video by URL.

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TikTok Transcript
GET /v1/tiktok/video/transcript

Extracts the transcript, captions, or subtitles from a TikTok video by URL.

Authentication: x-api-key
Example URL: https://api.datawake.ai/v1/tiktok/video/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602&language=en&use_ai_as_fallback=false

Parameters:
- url (query · string · required) = https://www.tiktok.com/@stoolpresidente/video/7499229683859426602
- language (query · string · optional) = en
- use_ai_as_fallback (query · string · optional) = false

Overview

WakeScrap exposes this TikTok endpoint as a live-data API. The platform keeps the documented request and response shape stable while unifying auth, request tracking, and credits billing.

Extracts the transcript, captions, or subtitles from a TikTok video by URL. Returns `id`, `url`, and `transcript` as a WEBVTT-formatted string with timestamped text segments. Video must be under 2 minutes; costs an additional 10 credits when `use_ai_as_fallback=true`.

Required params: url.

Headers

x-api-key string required

Your Wake API access key.

Example:

YOUR_API_KEY

Query Parameters

url string required

TikTok video URL

Example:

https://www.tiktok.com/@stoolpresidente/video/7499229683859426602

language string

Language of the transcript. 2 letter language code, ie 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'de', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'zh'

Example:

use_ai_as_fallback string

Set to 'true' to use AI as a fallback to get the transcript if the transcript is not found. Costs 10 credits to use this feature. And only if the video is under 2 minutes.

Example:

false


              curl 'https://api.datawake.ai/v1/tiktok/video/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602&language=en&use_ai_as_fallback=false' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'


              const response = await fetch("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/tiktok/video/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602&language=en&use_ai_as_fallback=false", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);


              import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/tiktok/video/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602&language=en&use_ai_as_fallback=false",
    headers={
        "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Accept": "application/json",
    },
)

print(response.json())


              $ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/tiktok/video/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602&language=en&use_ai_as_fallback=false",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
        'Accept: application/json',
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;


              client := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/tiktok/video/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602&language=en&use_ai_as_fallback=false", nil)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))


              HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/tiktok/video/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602&language=en&use_ai_as_fallback=false"))
    .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .header("Accept", "application/json")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();

HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

System.out.println(response.body());


              {
  "id": "7499229683859426602",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@stoolpresidente/video/7499229683859426602",
  "transcript": "WEBVTT\n\n\n00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.840\nAlright, pizza review time.\n\n00:00:01.841 --> 00:00:03.761\nSal's Pizza Factory. Oh,\n\n00:00:03.762 --> 00:00:05.721\nit's Fucking Corn. We're i..."
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "One or more required parameters are missing or invalid."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "Invalid or missing x-api-key header."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_credits",
    "message": "This request requires available credits before execution."
  }
}