YouTube Transcript Scraper
Pricing
from $1.50 / 1,000 transcript extracteds
Extract timestamped transcripts & subtitles from any public YouTube video. Batch hundreds of URLs, 100+ languages with auto-fallback, no API key required. Returns full video metadata + segments. Export JSON, CSV, Excel.
Add YouTube video URLs, public playlist URLs, video IDs, or channel URLs. A watch URL containing a list parameter is expanded as a playlist. Supported formats also include short URLs (youtu.be/...), Shorts URLs, bare video IDs (11 characters), channel URLs (youtube.com/@handle), and bare @handles.
Set the preferred transcript language as an ISO 639-1 code (e.g. en, es, de, ja, ko, fr, pt). If the language is unavailable, the actor falls back to the best available option. Check selectedLanguage in the output to see which was used.
Enable to fall back to YouTube's auto-generated captions when manual captions are not available. Recommended: leave on — many videos only have auto-generated captions.
Enable to add a fullText field containing all transcript segments merged into a single string. Useful for feeding directly into LLMs, summarizers, or translation APIs.
Enable to create one downloadable PDF transcript per successful video. PDF records are stored in the run default key-value store and the dataset item includes pdfKey, pdfUrl, pdfFileName, pdfContentType, and pdfSizeBytes. This is optional; when disabled, output stays transcript-only.
Set the maximum number of videos to process from each public playlist URL. Videos keep their playlist order and are deduplicated with all other input videos by first occurrence.
Set the maximum number of videos to process when a channel URL is provided. Videos are fetched newest first. Keep low (10–20) for testing before running the full channel.
Filter: only process videos published on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Works with both video URLs and channel URLs.
