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YouTube Transcript API

Get YouTube transcripts, captions, and subtitles from any video URL or video ID. Export results as JSON, text, SRT, or WebVTT for automation and analysis.

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What does YouTube Transcript API do?

YouTube Transcript API fetches a transcript for a YouTube video and saves it to the default Apify dataset.

How it works

Provide a YouTube videoId, choose a language, and select a format. The Actor returns the transcript if YouTube exposes it for the selected language. If the first request is blocked, it retries internally.

No translation fallback is performed by this Actor.

Input

Field	Required	Description
`videoId`	Yes	YouTube video ID. A full YouTube URL is also accepted.
`language`	Yes	Transcript language code, for example `en`, `tr`, `de`, `es`.
`format`	Yes	Output format: `json`, `text`, `srt`, or `webvtt`.

The Actor also accepts legacy aliases from the copied template: videoUrl for videoId, and targetLanguage for language.

Input example

{
    "videoId": "IELMSD2kdmk",
    "language": "en",
    "format": "json"
}

Text output example:

{
    "videoId": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELMSD2kdmk",
    "language": "en",
    "format": "text"
}

Output

The Actor pushes one dataset item with a single response field. The response field contains the returned transcript response.

JSON output example

{
    "response": {
        "videoId": "IELMSD2kdmk",
        "language": "English",
        "languageCode": "en",
        "isGenerated": true,
        "snippets": [
            {
                "text": "Transcript text...",
                "start": 0,
                "duration": 4.2
            }
        ]
    }
}

Text/SRT/WebVTT output example

{
    "response": "1\n00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,200\nTranscript text...\n"
}

Notes

Some videos do not expose transcripts.
The requested language must exist as a transcript language for the video.
If the request returns an error response, that response is still saved in the response field.

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