Get the transcript of a YouTube video
Trong Nguyen
Paste a YouTube video link and get its full transcript as text, with every caption line and its timestamp. Works with the uploader's subtitles and with YouTube's automatic captions, for normal videos, Shorts and past live streams. Add as many links as you like; each video is one row.
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The YouTube Transcript Scraper & New Videos Monitor Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like videos, channels or playlists, transcript language, and more, to match your specific use case.
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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Get the transcript of a YouTube video" task via API.
Yes. The video transcript task falls back to YouTube's automatic captions, which most videos with speech have. The isAutoGenerated field says which kind you got.
The video transcript task takes watch links, youtu.be short links, Shorts and live links, or bare video IDs. You can also paste channels and playlists.
The video transcript 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 video transcript 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.