YouTube Channel & Playlist Transcripts: Bulk & Search
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Bulk YouTube transcripts from channels, playlists and keyword searches, with date, length and Shorts filters, a new-only mode and markdown for RAG.
status
Optional
ok: transcript (or video details) delivered and charged. error: nothing delivered, never charged.
videoId
Optional
11-character YouTube video id.
url
Optional
Canonical watch URL.
title
Optional
Video title from the listing (single videos: from YouTube's public oEmbed data).
channel
Optional
Channel name.
channelId
Optional
Channel id (UC...).
channelUrl
Optional
Channel URL.
publishedAt
Optional
Publish time, UTC ISO. Exact for a channel's newest uploads (from its RSS feed); otherwise estimated from text like "3 weeks ago" (see publishedAtIsEstimate). Null for single videos.
publishedText
Optional
The date as YouTube shows it, like "3 weeks ago".
publishedAtIsEstimate
Optional
True when publishedAt was estimated from publishedText (it is then the latest moment that text can mean).
durationSec
Optional
Video length in seconds from the listing; null for single videos.
viewCount
Optional
Views from the listing; rounded when YouTube shows 1.2M style counts.
isShort
Optional
True for a YouTube Short, false when YouTube says it is not one, null when unknown.
thumbnailUrl
Optional
Thumbnail image URL.
source
Optional
The channel, playlist, search query or "videos" input this row came from (the first one, if several listed it).
sourceType
Optional
channel, playlist, search or videos.
position
Optional
Rank of the video in its source, from 1.
language
Optional
Language name of the returned caption track.
languageCode
Optional
Language code of the returned track.
isAutoGenerated
Optional
True for YouTube's automatic captions.
isTranslated
Optional
True if YouTube translated the track to translateTo.
languageFallback
Optional
True when none of the preferred languages existed and the first available track was returned.
availableLanguages
Optional
Caption language codes the video has.
segmentCount
Optional
Number of caption segments.
wordCount
Optional
Number of words in the transcript.
captionsEndSec
Optional
Time of the last caption, in seconds.
text
Optional
The whole transcript as one plain string; in every transcript row.
segments
Optional
Timed form for outputFormat segments: text, start and duration in seconds.
srt
Optional
Subtitle file text for outputFormat srt.
vtt
Optional
Subtitle file text for outputFormat vtt.
reason
Optional
Why nothing was delivered: no_captions, unavailable, unplayable, age_restricted, invalid_id, invalid_input, blocked, time_limit, youtube_error, empty, not_translatable, translation_unavailable, not_found, no_videos, failed.
error
Optional
Plain-words reason on error rows.
input
Optional
The original input entry on error rows.
scrapedAt
Optional
UTC ISO timestamp.
