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YouTube Subtitle & Transcript Scraper

Extract YouTube subtitles & transcripts from videos, Shorts, playlists, and channels. Output as JSON, SRT, VTT, or clean LLM-ready text. 100+ languages. Rich metadata: views, description, thumbnail. Multi-fallback engine for maximum reliability. Fair billing — failures are free.

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You can access the YouTube Subtitle & Transcript Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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            "title": "YouTube Cookies (optional)",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Paste your YouTube cookies to dramatically improve success on videos that trigger 'Sign in to confirm you're not a bot'. Accepts either a raw Cookie header (copy from DevTools → Network → a youtube.com request → Cookie) or a Netscape cookies.txt file (export with a browser extension like 'Get cookies.txt LOCALLY'). Leave empty to scrape anonymously."
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                    "type": "string",
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YouTube Transcript & Subtitle Scraper - JSON, SRT, VTT, LLM OpenAPI definition

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

OpenAPI is effective when used with AI agents and GPTs by standardizing how these systems interact with various APIs, for reliable integrations and efficient communication.

By defining machine-readable API specifications, OpenAPI allows AI models like GPTs to understand and use varied data sources, improving accuracy. This accelerates development, reduces errors, and provides context-aware responses, making OpenAPI a core component for AI applications.

You can download the OpenAPI definitions for YouTube Subtitle & Transcript Scraper from the options below:

OpenAPI.json

If you’d like to learn more about how OpenAPI powers GPTs, read our blog post.

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