📺 YouTube Transcript, Chapters & Metadata Scraper (AI / RAG Ready)

🎁 Free Trial Included: Apify gives every registered user $5 of free platform credits every month.
This allows you to extract up to 4,000 full YouTube video transcripts (clean text, timestamps, chapters, and RAG Markdown) completely free with $0 out-of-pocket! Click Try for free above to test your first videos.

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⚡ What is YouTube Transcript Pro?

Extract YouTube video transcripts, timestamps, chapters, and complete video metadata in milliseconds using YouTube's internal lightweight Innertube API — no slow or expensive headless browsers required.

Engineered specifically for AI Agents, RAG pipelines, LLM Summarizers, n8n, Make, Zapier, and bulk content research workflows.

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🥊 Why Choose YouTube Transcript Pro?

Feature	Legacy Browser Scrapers ($5 - $10 / 1k)	YouTube Transcript Pro ($1.25 / 1k)
Price per 1,000 Videos	$5.00 – $10.00	$1.25 / 1,000 results
Execution Speed	8 – 25 seconds per video	< 0.4 seconds per video
Memory Footprint	2,048 MB – 4,096 MB (Chromium)	128 MB RAM (Pure HTTP)
Input Flexibility	Video URLs only	Video URLs, Shorts, Video IDs + Keyword Search
AI / LLM Formatting	Raw unstructured text	Timestamped JSON + Structured RAG Markdown + Chapters
Proxy Expense	Required ($5-20/GB)	0 € proxy expense (Lightweight HTTP)

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🚀 Key Capabilities

• Direct URLs, Shorts & 11-char Video IDs: Supports standard youtube.com/watch?v=..., youtu.be/..., youtube.com/shorts/..., or raw video IDs.
• Built-in Discovery via Keyword Search: Pass searchQueries (e.g. ["LangChain tutorial", "AI agents 2026"]) to automatically find the top ranked videos and pull their full transcripts in a single run.
• Multi-Language Caption Support: Specify your preferredLanguage (en, fr, es, de, ja, etc.) with automatic fallback to auto-generated (asr) captions when manual captions are absent.
• Description Chapter Parsing: Automatically identifies and structures timestamps and chapter titles (e.g. 00:00 Intro, 04:12 System Architecture).
• Instant RAG Markdown Ready for Vector DBs: Every item includes a formatted ragMarkdown block with clean titles, metadata, and timestamps ready to inject directly into Pinecone, Qdrant, ChromaDB, Claude, or OpenAI.

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📥 Input Example

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [
    "mcp server tutorial python"
  ],
  "maxSearchResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "preferredLanguage": "en",
  "includeTimestamps": true,
  "includeMarkdown": true
}

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📤 Output Example

{
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "channelName": "Rick Astley",
  "channelId": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "publishDate": "2009-10-25T06:57:33-07:00",
  "durationSeconds": 213,
  "durationFormatted": "03:33",
  "viewCount": 1600000000,
  "hasTranscript": true,
  "language": "en",
  "isAutoGenerated": false,
  "wordCount": 412,
  "fullText": "We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I...",
  "chapters": [
    { "title": "Intro", "start": 0, "timestamp": "00:00" },
    { "title": "Chorus", "start": 43, "timestamp": "00:43" }
  ],
  "segments": [
    {
      "start": 18.64,
      "duration": 3.24,
      "timestamp": "00:18",
      "text": "We're no strangers to love"
    }
  ],
  "ragMarkdown": "# Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up\n- **Channel:** Rick Astley | **Duration:** 03:33\n\n## Transcript\n- **[00:18]** We're no strangers to love\n- **[00:22]** You know the rules and so do I..."
}

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💰 Pay-Per-Event Pricing

• $0.00125 per Video Transcript Extracted ($1.25 per 1,000 videos).
• No recurring fees. Use your free $5 monthly Apify credits to extract up to 4,000 videos for $0.00.

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