Use cases
What teams build with it. From one request.
- Analyze what creators say at scale
- Track brand and product mentions in videos
- Feed short-form video into LLM pipelines
- Caption and translate TikTok content
What you get
Transcripts in one schema. The same on every platform.
platformstring- Platform the media is hosted on.
idstring- Platform-native ID of the post (equals post.id).
urlstring- Canonical URL of the post.
languagestring- BCP-47 language of the returned transcript; null when unknown.
sourcestring- captions = platform caption track; asr = speech-to-text on the audio. New values may be added.
is_auto_generatedboolean- True when the track was machine-generated (platform auto-captions or ASR).
available_languagesstring[]- BCP-47 caption languages the platform offers for this post; [] if none or not listed.
duration_msinteger- Media duration in milliseconds; null when unknown.
Every field, its type and when it is null: the response reference and the transcript schema.
Example request
curl -G 'https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript' \
--data-urlencode 'url=7673108027645414678' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"const params = new URLSearchParams({
url: "7673108027645414678",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript",
params={"url": "7673108027645414678"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, meta = body["data"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("url", "7673108027645414678")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
var body struct {
Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"`
Error *struct {
Code string `json:"code"`
Message string `json:"message"`
} `json:"error"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if body.Error != nil {
log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
}
fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}<?php
$query = http_build_query([
'url' => '7673108027645414678',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('url' => '7673108027645414678')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String query = "url=" + encode("7673108027645414678");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript?" + query))
.header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
// An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
System.out.println(response.body());
}
static String encode(String value) {
return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}
}using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));
var query = string.Join("&",
"url=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("7673108027645414678"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
.get("https://staging-fly.socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript")
.query(&[("url", "7673108027645414678")])
.header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
.send()?;
let ok = res.status().is_success();
let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
if !ok {
return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
}
println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
Ok(())
}{
"data": {
"available_languages": [
"en"
],
"duration_ms": 495000,
"id": "7673108027645414678",
"is_auto_generated": false,
"language": "en",
"platform": "tiktok",
"platform_specific": {},
"segments": [
{
"end_ms": 4820,
"start_ms": 100,
"text": "Let me show you how to make a Japanese cream stew!"
},
{
"end_ms": 8380,
"start_ms": 4821,
"text": "I think there is a way to definitely make it from scratch,"
},
{
"end_ms": 13120,
"start_ms": 8381,
"text": "but most Japanese people buy the stock for the cream stew."
}
],
"source": "captions",
"text": "Let me show you how to make a Japanese cream stew! I think there is a way to definitely make it from scratch, but most Japanese people buy the stock for the cream stew. If you go to a Japanese supermarket, you can find this next to or near where the curry stock cubes are. This is…",
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@niinoclock/video/7673108027645414678"
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "tiktok",
"source": "captions",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 668,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": {
"kind": "video",
"id": "7673108027645414678",
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@niinoclock/video/7673108027645414678"
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"client_request_id": null,
"warnings": [],
"mode": "live"
}
}Long arrays and strings are shortened for display; real responses are complete.
Reliability
Measured, not promised. Every request counts.
- p50 latency
- 668 ms
- p95 latency
- 2,705 ms
- Success rate
- 99.1%
- Requests measured
- 112
Staging measurements, not production. Measured on our staging environment, over the 7 days before 2026-10-25. How it is measured.
Pricing
Pay per request. Only when it succeeds.
| Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|
Captions captions | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.45 |
Speech-to-text asr | 2 credits + 2 per started minute of media up to 122 credits (60 started minutes of media) | $1.50–$2.90 + $1.50–$2.90 per started minute of media |
- Failed requests are free: errors cost 0 credits.
- Cache hits are free: responses served from the cache cost 0 credits.
- Credits never expire.
- One credit balance for every endpoint and platform.
Credit packs · How this endpoint is priced · How credits work
FAQ