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.

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Video Transcript API — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook
Video Transcript API — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebookairtune/universal-transcript-api
Platform
Title
Language
Transcript source
+2 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

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

How it works

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.

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