douyin 抖音

Get a Douyin video as text

Turn a Douyin link into LLM-ready text: a transcript with timecodes, sampled frames, and the on-screen text burned into the video. Handles 图文 image notes as well as video.

Why this one is hard

Douyin refuses anonymous requests outright — its web page serves a captcha and its APIs return 403 — so reading a post at all requires a logged-in session's cookies. yt-dlp does not support Douyin, so this path is ours end to end.

What comes back

Transcript with timecodes, sampled frames, on-screen text.

Plus the metadata every digest carries: title, author, platform, posted date and the source URL. Video posts and image notes, including 图文.

Use it

Paste a link like v.douyin.com/… or douyin.com/video/… into the console, or let an agent call it directly.

MCP — Claude Code, Cursor

claude mcp add --transport http linkdigest \
  https://linkdigest.dev/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

REST

curl -X POST https://linkdigest.dev/api/v1/digest \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"url": "https://..."}'

Three digests free, no card. After that $9 a month for 500 credits — a post is 1 credit, video is 2 a minute. Anything already digested by anyone is cached and free for everyone.