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YouTube Transcript, Subtitles & Comments Scraper

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YouTube transcript scraper & API: get subtitles & captions as plain text, SRT, VTT, timestamped JSON or LLM-ready chunks from videos, Shorts, channels, playlists and search. Any language or translated, plus chapters, metadata and comments. $2 per 1,000 transcripts; videos without captions are free.

Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 video transcript delivereds

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Developer

Aaron Tuttle

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Monthly active users

11 days ago

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Videos

Developer tools

YouTube URLs or video IDs

startUrls

Optional

Video URLs (watch, youtu.be, Shorts, live, embed), channel URLs (@handle, /channel/UC…, /c/…, /user/…), playlist URLs, search result URLs (youtube.com/results?search_query=…) or bare 11-character video IDs — one per line. Channels, playlists and searches are expanded to their videos for free. Free plan: 100 videos per run.

Type:array

Search YouTube

searchQueries

Optional

Search terms, one per line, e.g. "how to start a podcast". Each search is expanded to its video results (see "Max videos per search"); the search itself is free, you pay per transcript delivered.

Type:array

Max videos per search

maxVideosPerSearch

Optional

How many video results to take from each search term. YouTube serves about 20 results per page; the scraper pages through them until it has this many (or YouTube has no more).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:20

Search: sort by

searchSort

Optional

YouTube's own ordering: relevance, or popularity (most viewed first). YouTube no longer offers sorting by upload date; use "Search: uploaded within" or "Published after" to get recent videos.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancepopularity

Search: uploaded within

searchUploadDate

Optional

YouTube's upload-date filter for searches.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anytodayweekmonthyear

Search: only videos with subtitles/CC

searchSubtitlesOnly

Optional

Apply YouTube's "Subtitles/CC" search filter. YouTube applies it to uploaded subtitles, so videos that only have auto-generated captions may be left out.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max videos per channel/playlist

maxVideosPerSource

Optional

How many videos to take from each channel (newest first) or playlist. With "Include Shorts" / "Include live streams", this limit applies to each of a channel's Videos, Shorts and Live tabs. Listing is free; you pay per transcript delivered.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:5000

Default:50

Transcript

includeTranscript

Optional

Get the transcript (subtitles / captions) as plain text, paragraphs, SRT, WebVTT and timed segments. Videos without captions are delivered with hasTranscript: false and are not charged.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Transcript languages (in order of preference)

languages

Optional

Caption language codes to look for, in order, e.g. en, es, pt-BR. The first one the video has is used (uploaded captions before auto-generated ones). Leave empty for the video's original language. (The older single "language" field is still accepted.)

Type:array

If none of these languages exists

whenLanguageMissing

Optional

What to do when a video has none of your languages: return the video's original captions (with a note), translate the original captions into your first language with YouTube's translation, or skip the transcript (delivered with reason "language-unavailable", not charged).

Type:string

Default:original

Options:

originaltranslateskip

Always translate to

translateTo

Optional

Optional. Language code to translate every transcript into with YouTube's own translation, e.g. en, es, fr. Leave empty for no translation.

Type:string

Output format

outputFormat

Optional

Items: one rich JSON record per video with the transcript, chapters and comments (best for API, code and AI). Rows: one flat row per transcript segment (or chunk) and per comment with the same columns everywhere (best for CSV, Excel, Google Sheets).

Type:string

Default:items

Options:

itemsrows

Chunk length (seconds)

chunkSeconds

Optional

For RAG / LLM pipelines: also split the transcript into chunks of up to this many seconds (transcript.chunks, each with start/end time, a link to that moment and its chapter). Chunks never cross a chapter. 0 = off. Can be combined with "Chunk size (words)".

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:3600

Default:0

Chunk size (words)

chunkWords

Optional

Split the transcript into chunks of up to this many words (e.g. 300). 0 = off. When both chunk settings are set, a chunk ends at whichever limit comes first.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10000

Default:0

Lean items (no SRT, VTT, segments)

leanOutput

Optional

Items format only: leave out transcript.srt, transcript.vtt and transcript.segments so each record stays small. Plain text, paragraphs, chunks, chapters and metadata stay.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Comments

includeComments

Optional

Also collect comments (author, text, likes, date, pinned / hearted / creator flags). Charged per comment delivered. Free plan: 50 per video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max comments per video

maxCommentsPerVideo

Optional

Upper limit of comments (replies included) per video. Free plan: capped at 50.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10000

Default:100

Comment order

commentSort

Optional

Top comments (YouTube's ranking) or newest first.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewest

Include replies

includeReplies

Optional

Also collect replies to comments. Replies count toward "Max comments per video" and are charged like comments.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Published after

publishedAfter

Optional

Only videos from channels, playlists and searches published after this date or within this age: a date like 2026-09-01, or an age like "7 days", "24 hours", "2 weeks". Videos you paste directly are always processed. Older videos are left out and not charged.

Type:string

Include Shorts

includeShorts

Optional

Channels: also take videos from the Shorts tab. Searches: include Shorts in the results. Off: channels use the Videos tab and searches ask YouTube for regular videos only.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include live streams (channels)

includeLiveStreams

Optional

Channels: also take finished live streams from the Live tab. Streams that are live right now or scheduled have no transcript yet and are always left out. Searches include finished streams anyway.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Skip videos already scraped in earlier runs

skipAlreadyScraped

Optional

Remember the IDs of videos whose transcript was delivered (in a named key-value store in your Apify account) and skip them in later runs, so scheduled runs only pay for new uploads. Videos without a transcript yet are tried again next time.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Already-scraped list name

skipAlreadyScrapedStore

Optional

Name of the key-value store that keeps the already-scraped video IDs. Use a different name per schedule to keep separate lists; delete the store to start over. Letters, digits and hyphens.

Type:string

Default:youtube-transcripts-seen

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

YouTube blocks repeated anonymous requests from one IP. Apify Proxy is recommended; sessions and IPs rotate automatically.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

Fall back to residential proxy when blocked

useResidentialFallback

Optional

If YouTube keeps blocking the default proxy, switch to Apify residential proxy automatically. No extra cost to you.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Parallel sessions

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many videos to process at the same time, each with its own session (an IP that YouTube accepts is shared by at most two). Higher is faster for big lists.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10

Default:4

Max retries per request

maxRetries

Optional

How many times to retry with a fresh session and IP when YouTube blocks or throttles a request.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:15

Default:8

Time limit per video (seconds)

maxSecondsPerVideo

Optional

Stop retrying a video after this long so one stubborn video can't stall the run. The video is reported as failed and not charged.

Type:integer

Minimum:20

Maximum:900

Default:90

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