Transcribe videos that have no captions
Turn YouTube, Instagram and X links into timestamped transcripts, including videos with captions disabled, where the audio is transcribed with AI.
Video Transcript API — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebookairtune/universal-transcript-api
Platform
Title
Language
Transcript source
+2 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
Video URLs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk+2
Audio or video files
Quote only — do not process:false
Max videos per playlist or channel:50
Preferred languages
Output formats:json+2
Max concurrent videos:5
Reuse YouTube session between runs:true
Caption download route:auto
Transcribe with AI when captions are missing:true
Speech recognition model:whisper-large-v3-turbo
Max video length for AI transcription (seconds):3600
Output fields
Platform
Title
Language
Transcript source
Duration (seconds)
Plain text
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the Video Transcript API — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
