https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/video-transcriptFetch the caption track TikTok itself published for a video, as TikTok wrote it. It is the cheapest way to get the words, and it is only as good as TikTok's own transcription: it mishears names and uncommon words, and many videos - especially non-English ones - have no caption track at all, which comes back as not found. When you need the words to be right, or there is no track to read, tiktok.video_transcript_full transcribes the audio with speech-to-text instead.
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Fetch the caption track TikTok itself published for a video, as TikTok wrote it. It is the cheapest way to get the words, and it is only as good as TikTok's own transcription: it mishears names and uncommon words, and many videos - especially non-English ones - have no caption track at all, which comes back as not found. When you need the words to be right, or there is no track to read, tiktok.video_transcript_full transcribes the audio with speech-to-text instead.
curl -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/video-transcript" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@washingtonpost/video/7609177768793787679"}'
The result is returned in outputs[0].data. A lookup that finds nothing still succeeds and returns found: false.
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | string | Yes | TikTok video URL on tiktok.com: a video or photo post (https://www.tiktok.com/@<user>/video/<id> or /photo/<id>) or a vm.tiktok.com, vt.tiktok.com or tiktok.com/t/ share link. A profile link (https://www.tiktok.com/@<use |
requireFields | array | No | Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Name the output fields this request must be able to return, for example language, and it is served only by a source that returns every one o |
Billed at the actual cost of each call, usually $0.0011 per request. A call can cost more when the first data source fails and another one answers. Failed calls are not charged. Lookups that find nothing and searches with no results are billed at their actual cost, which is often lower and can be $0.
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# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/video-transcript" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@washingtonpost/video/7609177768793787679"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"Set your SandBase API key in your server environment. Requests use Bearer authentication.
export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"Keep your key on the server. Do not expose it in browser code.
urlstringrequiredTikTok video URL on tiktok.com: a video or photo post (https://www.tiktok.com/@<user>/video/<id> or /photo/<id>) or a vm.tiktok.com, vt.tiktok.com or tiktok.com/t/ share link. A profile link (https://www.tiktok.com/@<user>), a /@<user>/<id> link without /video/ (TikTok sends it to the For You feed, not a video), a video file link (tiktokcdn.com) or a link to any other site is refused as invalid input, with no charge.
requireFieldsarrayOptional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Name the output fields this request must be able to return, for example `language`, and it is served only by a source that returns every one of them. Fields you do not name are still returned whenever the serving source has them. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source cannot return a named field, a dearer source serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. A named field can still be absent on a video that genuinely lacks it. Naming a combination that no single source returns together is refused as invalid input, with no charge.
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| API | Price | Response |
|---|---|---|
TikTok | From $0.0011 per call | JSON |
TikTok | From $0.0012 per call | JSON |
TikTok | From $0.0008 per call | JSON |
TikTok | From $0.0008 per call | JSON |
TikTok | $0.0015 per call | JSON |
TikTok | $0.0015 per call | JSON |
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Send a POST request to https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/video-transcript with your SandBase API key in the Authorization header (Bearer) and the parameters as a JSON body. You can also try it in the Playground on this page without writing code.
From $0.0011 per call, billed from your SandBase balance. You are only charged for calls you make; there is no subscription.
Required: url (string). Optional: requireFields (array). The Parameters table and the Playground on this page list every field.
A JSON response returned in the same HTTP request (synchronous).
No. TikTok Video Transcript (native captions) runs through SandBase, so one SandBase API key covers this endpoint and every other API and model in the catalog. You do not need to apply for TikTok API access separately.