# Transcribe a whole YouTube channel to text

**Use case:** 

Plain-text transcripts of 20 videos of the 3Blue1Brown channel, one row per video with title, channel, duration, views, language and the full text. Put in any channel and raise the number of videos to turn a whole channel into text for research, summaries, search or AI. Videos without captions are not charged.

## Input

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown"
  ],
  "language": "",
  "captionType": "any",
  "includeTimestamps": false,
  "subtitleFormats": [],
  "maxVideosPerSource": 20,
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "Video",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "channelName": {
    "label": "Channel",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "Language",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "isAutoGenerated": {
    "label": "Auto-generated",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "Words",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "Transcript",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "error": {
    "label": "Error",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, SRT, Channels](https://apify.com/brii3343/youtube-transcript-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/brii3343/youtube-transcript-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/brii3343/youtube-transcript-scraper.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).