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TikTok Transcript: How to Get Text from Any TikTok Video

TikTok is full of valuable content - tutorials, product reviews, educational explainers, news commentary, interviews - but it’s all locked inside short video clips. There’s no built-in way to read the spoken content as text, search for a specific phrase, or copy a quote. If you need the text from a TikTok video, you need a transcript. Here’s how to get one.

Why Would You Transcribe a TikTok Video?

  • Accessibility - Make spoken content available to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, or to anyone in a noise-sensitive environment
  • Content repurposing - Turn a viral TikTok into a blog post, tweet thread, newsletter snippet, or script for another platform
  • Research & analysis - Collect quotes, compare claims across multiple creators, or track how a topic evolves over time
  • Study notes - Educational TikToks often pack dense information into 60–180 seconds. A transcript lets you study the material at your own pace.
  • Archival - TikTok videos can disappear at any time. A saved transcript preserves the content even if the original is deleted.

How to Transcribe a TikTok Video with Scrivi

Scrivi’s TikTok transcript tool turns any public TikTok video into readable text in seconds. Here’s the process:

  1. Copy the TikTok share link - Open the TikTok app or website, tap the Share button on the video, and select “Copy link.” Scrivi accepts standard TikTok URLs, short links, and web URLs.
  2. Paste into Scrivi - Go to scrivi.app, paste the link, and click Transcribe. The spoken content is extracted and displayed as clean, scrollable text.
  3. Read, copy, or export - Scroll through the transcript, use the search function to find specific words, copy to clipboard, or export as PDF.
  4. Summarize with AI (optional) - Even short TikToks benefit from AI summaries. Click Summarize to get key points and topics extracted from the video.

Other Ways to Get TikTok Text

TikTok’s built-in captions

Many TikTok creators add auto-generated or custom captions to their videos. You can read these while watching, but there’s no way to select, copy, or export the caption text from TikTok’s interface.

Manual transcription

For very short clips (under 15 seconds), you can type out the spoken words manually. For anything longer, this is impractical - a 3-minute TikTok would take 10–15 minutes to transcribe by hand.

Screen recording + audio transcription

Some people screen-record the TikTok, extract the audio, and upload it to a transcription service. This works but adds multiple steps and usually costs money. Scrivi skips all of that - just paste the URL.

Tips for Better TikTok Transcripts

  • Public videos only - Scrivi can only transcribe TikTok videos that are publicly accessible. Private or friends-only videos won’t work.
  • Check for spoken content - TikToks that are purely visual (dance videos, scenery, music-only clips) won’t produce useful transcripts since there’s no speech to extract.
  • Batch transcribe - Researching a topic across multiple TikToks? Pro users can paste up to 10 URLs at once with Scrivi’s batch transcription feature.
  • Organize by topic - Save related TikTok transcripts into collections so you can find them later and generate cross-video research reports.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Scrivi transcribe any TikTok video?

Scrivi supports any public TikTok video that has spoken content with available caption data. Most TikToks with speech have auto-generated captions that Scrivi can extract.

Is TikTok transcription free?

Yes. Scrivi’s free plan includes 3 transcriptions per day across all platforms (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, and Facebook). The Pro plan unlocks unlimited transcriptions and additional features.

Can I transcribe TikTok videos in languages other than English?

Scrivi displays the transcript in whatever language the video’s captions are in. The interface supports 16 languages, and AI summaries can be generated in any of those languages.

Try Scrivi free - Paste a TikTok link and get the full transcript in seconds. No downloads, no audio processing, no waiting.