TikTok Video Transcript (native captions) API docs

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Platform API endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

Production API
Platform API endpoint
https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/video-transcript
Authorization header
Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(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"

2. Authentication

Set your SandBase API key in your server environment. Requests use Bearer authentication.

API key environment variable
export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Keep your key on the server. Do not expose it in browser code.

3. Parameters

urlstringrequired

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/@<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.

requireFieldsarray

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 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.

4. Response

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