InsightSocial API
TikTok

TikTok Video Transcript API reference

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Example request
curl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/tiktok/post/transcript?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602" \
  -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"

Step-by-step: Read on-screen text from TikTok videos · Video transcription

GET
/v1/tiktok/post/transcript

Returns the spoken text of a TikTok video from its captions, with an option to fall back to AI transcription when no captions exist.

Use it when you need what was said rather than the numbers; post gives you the video's caption and metrics but no transcript.

100 credits per call.

Authorization

apiKey
x-api-key<token>

Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.

In: header

Query Parameters

url*string

Full URL of the TikTok video

language?string

Language of the transcript, as a two-letter code such as en, es, fr, de, it, ja, ko or zh.

use_ai_as_fallback?string

Set to 'true' to fall back to AI transcription when the video has no captions. AI transcription covers videos up to 10 minutes (600 seconds): a longer video with no captions returns 400 INVALID_REQUEST with error.details.reason: video_too_long, duration_seconds and max_seconds, free and deterministic, so retrying returns the same answer.

dry_run?"1"

Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.

Value in

  • "1"

Response Body

application/json

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curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/tiktok/post/transcript?url=string"
{  "success": true,  "platform": "string",  "endpoint": "string",  "schema_version": "2",  "pagination": {    "next_cursor": "string",    "has_more": true,    "page_size": 0,    "stopped_at": "since"  },  "unavailable": [    "string"  ],  "credits_used": 0,  "credits_remaining": 0,  "request_id": "string",  "cached": true,  "idempotent_replay": true,  "charge_reason": "string",  "free_call": true,  "data": {    "transcript": {      "language": "string",      "text": "string",      "segments": [        {          "text": "string",          "start_seconds": 0,          "duration_seconds": 0        }      ]    }  }}

Post › Comments GET

Returns a page of comments on one TikTok video, each with the commenter's username, comment text, like count, reply count, and timestamp.

Post GET

Returns one TikTok video in full: caption, engagement counts, author, sound, video metadata, and any on-screen text the creator typed with TikTok's text tool (post.ext.on_screen_texts).