YouTube Transcripts Scraper: Text, Timed Segments, SRT
Pricing
from $1.80 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube transcripts (full text, timed segments, language, auto-generated flag) for videos, Shorts, channels or playlists; from $2.48 per 1,000 transcripts. Caption languages, title, channel, date, views, srt/vtt. Videos without captions are free error rows.
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ, https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ, a Shorts URL, a bare video ID (dQw4w9WgXcQ), a channel (https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt, add /shorts or /streams for those tabs) or a playlist URL. Channels and playlists give up to maxVideosPerSource videos each, channels newest first.
ISO language codes in order of preference, e.g. ["en", "de"]; en also matches en-US and en-GB. The first one the video has is used. Empty or none available: the original spoken language (languageMatched is false when none matched).
Values: any (uploaded captions first, else auto-generated), manual (uploaded by the creator only), auto (YouTube speech recognition only). Videos without that type give a free error row. Default: any.
ISO language code, e.g. es. A native track in that language is used when the video has one (translationStatus original). Otherwise YouTube's own machine translation is asked for; YouTube currently refuses it for anonymous clients, so you get the original with translationStatus unavailable.
Transcripts per channel or playlist URL, 1 to 5,000 (default 50). Videos without captions or outside the date range do not count. Direct video URLs are not limited by this.
Date as YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 2026-01-01. Videos published earlier are skipped for free; on a channel the listing stops at the first older videos.
Date as YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 2026-06-30. Videos published later are skipped for free.
Adds segments: one entry per caption line with start and duration in seconds and its text. The joined transcript text is always included.
Values: none, srt, vtt. srt or vtt adds the captions as a ready subtitle file in the srt or vtt field. Default: none.
Values: short (about 300 characters, default), full, none. Emails and phone numbers are removed.
Stops the run after this many transcripts across all URLs, 1 to 1,000,000. A cost cap; leave empty for no limit.
Adds a free row (rowType error, with a code and message) for every video or URL that gave no transcript: no captions, private, age-restricted, not found. On by default.
Advanced. How often a request is retried after a temporary error, 0 to 10.
