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YouTube Transcript & Metadata

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Fetch a YouTube video's timed transcript + metadata as clean JSON.

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$5.00 / 1,000 video transcribeds

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Avanturismo

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What it does

For each YouTube URL you pass, this Actor returns:

Transcript — timed segments (start, dur, text), or plain text, or an .srt subtitle file. Prefers the human-written caption track and falls back to auto-generated captions.
Metadata (optional) — title, channel, duration_s, upload_date, view_count, like_count, thumbnail, chapters, and the list of available_captions.

Results land in the dataset, one row per video — ready to export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull via the API.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`videoUrls`	array	One or more YouTube URLs (`watch?v=…` or `youtu.be/…`). Required.
`lang`	string	Preferred caption language (e.g. `en`, `es`, `de`). Default `en`.
`format`	string	`json` (timed segments), `text` (plain), or `srt` (subtitles). Default `json`.
`includeMetadata`	boolean	Also fetch title/channel/duration/chapters. Default `true`.

Example input

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "lang": "en",
  "format": "json",
  "includeMetadata": true
}

Example output (one dataset row)

{
  "input_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video)",
  "channel": "Rick Astley",
  "duration_s": 213,
  "lang": "en",
  "source": "manual",
  "text": "We're no strangers to love ...",
  "segments": [{ "start": 0.0, "dur": 3.1, "text": "We're no strangers to love" }],
  "chapters": [],
  "available_captions": ["en", "es", "fr"]
}

Use cases

Feed video content into RAG pipelines and LLM summarizers
Build searchable archives of a channel's talks or lectures
Generate subtitles / show notes / blog drafts from video
Content analysis at scale — keywords, topics, sentiment over transcripts

Pricing

Pay-per-result: you're charged once per video successfully processed. No monthly minimum, no idle cost.

Notes

Videos without any captions (manual or auto) return a row flagged transcript_error: "no_captions" with metadata still included.
The Actor calls a dedicated backend that only reads caption + metadata — it never downloads or redistributes video/audio streams.

Who runs this

Built and operated by CyberWareX — a suite of pay-per-call data and AI APIs for autonomous agents. Every result row carries provider / provider_url fields so the data's origin stays traceable wherever it travels. Full service directory and machine-readable docs: cyberwarex.com · daily correctness proofs: cyberwarex.com/trust.

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