Turn any TikTok into text you can actually work with

How it works

Three steps, and only one of them takes any real time:

1. Copy the link. Share → Copy link in the TikTok app, or the URL straight from the browser. Whole share blurbs with text around the URL are fine — the links get picked out of the noise.
2. Paste and go. One link or a hundred, in any order, mixed with YouTube links if you like. The batch processes in parallel rather than one at a time.
3. Read, copy, export. Transcripts appear as each item finishes. Copy one, copy them all, or export the batch to CSV.

Captions are not required

Most TikTok transcript tools are caption scrapers. They read the caption track the creator uploaded, and when there is no caption track they hand you an empty result. In practice that is most of TikTok: creators burn text into the video frame rather than upload a caption file, so there is nothing to scrape.

We transcribe the audio itself with speech recognition. If a human voice says it, you get it, whether or not anyone ever wrote it down. Burned-in on-screen text is the one thing we do not read — that is pixels, not sound. In the vast majority of talking-head, review and storytelling content, the on-screen text repeats the voiceover anyway.

What comes back

Each processed link returns a block you can act on immediately:

• The transcript — the spoken words as continuous text, punctuated, not a wall of timestamped fragments.
• Video metadata — author handle, title, duration, and the engagement counts TikTok exposes, so you can sort scripts by what actually performed.
• A hook breakdown, on demand — what the first few seconds do and why they hold. See hook analysis.
• A rewrite, on demand — the same structure redrafted for your niche. See the rewriter.
• CSV export for the whole batch, so scripts land in a sheet instead of your clipboard.

What it costs

You buy minutes and spend them by the second. A 38-second TikTok costs 38 seconds of balance, not a rounded-up minute — which matters a lot when the median short-form video runs well under a minute and you are processing hundreds of them.

New accounts get ten free minutes, no card. After that, packs start at $9 for 300 minutes. There is no subscription, and minutes do not expire. If an extraction fails, its seconds go straight back to your balance — deleted videos, private accounts and region-locked posts cost you nothing.

Limits worth knowing before you start

• 100 links per batch, and two batches can run at once per account. Bigger jobs are just several batches.
• 30 minutes per video is the ceiling for a single item. Short-form never comes close; this only bites on long YouTube uploads.
• Public content only. Private accounts, deleted posts and videos unavailable in our region cannot be fetched, and are auto-refunded when they fail.
• Photo posts work too — TikTok slideshow posts with a voiceover transcribe like any other video.

Use it for research, not for reposting

The legitimate use of this tool is reading: understanding how a script is built, what claims a competitor makes, which objections they handle, what language a niche actually uses. Transcripts are also how you make your own back catalogue searchable, and how you caption or repurpose work you own.

What it is not for is lifting someone's video and republishing it. Process content you own or are authorized to process, and treat competitor scripts as research input for original work of your own.

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