Download YouTube subtitles in a chosen language
Trong Nguyen
Gets YouTube subtitles in the language you pick, with start times and durations for every line. The uploader's subtitles come first, then YouTube's automatic captions; each row lists every language the video has. The example asks for Spanish.
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The subtitles by language task then returns the video's main language and lists every language it does have in availableLanguages, so you can run it again with one of them.
The subtitles by language task returns each subtitle line with its start and duration in seconds in the segments field, which converts to SRT or VTT in a few lines of code.
The subtitles by language task is billed per transcript returned: 0.0015 USD per video, or 1.50 USD per 1,000. Videos without captions are listed for free.
Yes. Save the subtitles by language task to your account, add a schedule in Apify Console, or start it from the Apify API, Make, Zapier or n8n with the same input.