# TikTok Video Screen Text API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/tiktok/video-screen-text)

> Extracts the text shown ON the video itself — the overlay captions creators put on screen, which the regular caption and transcript never carry. Two layers are merged: native text-sticker data (present when the creator used TikTok's built-in text tool) and AI OCR of the video's cover frame, which also catches text burned in with editors like CapCut that no data provider returns. `texts` is the deduplicated union in reading order; `native_texts` and `ocr_texts` expose each layer separately and `source` says which layers produced data. A video with no on-screen text returns an empty `texts` array (that is a real answer, not an error). Costs 5 credits; auto-refunds when the video lookup or the whole extraction fails.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/tiktok/video/screen-text` costs 5 credits per call and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `url` | yes | Full URL of the TikTok video |

## Code example

```bash
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/video/screen-text?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40stoolpresidente%2Fvideo%2F7499229683859426602" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

See the full TikTok API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/tiktok

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing