Download YouTube subtitles as SRT and WebVTT files

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Cairnware

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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels & Playlists

Paste video, playlist or channel links and get each video's subtitles as ready-to-use SRT and WebVTT (.vtt) files, plus the plain-text transcript. Uploader captions are preferred over auto-generated ones. This example downloads the English subtitles of two videos ("Me at the zoo" and 3Blue1Brown's neural network lesson). $0.004 per video with subtitles; videos without captions are free.

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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels & Playlistscairnware/youtube-transcript-scraper

Video

Title

Channel

Status

+9 fields

Input

YouTube videos, playlists, channels or searches:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw+1

Max videos per playlist, channel or search:100

Preferred languages:en

Fall back to the original language:true

Include auto-generated captions:true

Timestamped segments:false

SRT subtitles:true

WebVTT subtitles:true

Split by chapters:false

Full video details:false

Proxy configuration:{2 fields}

Max retries per request:6

Parallel videos:5

Output fields

Video

Title

Channel

Status

Language

Auto captions

Words

Duration (s)

Views

Published

Transcript

Error

Scraped at

How it works

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Start the "Download YouTube subtitles as SRT and WebVTT files" task

The YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels & Playlists Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like youtube videos, playlists, channels or searches, max videos per playlist, channel or search, and more, to match your specific use case.

Receive the "Download YouTube subtitles as SRT and WebVTT files" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as video, title, channel, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Download YouTube subtitles as SRT and WebVTT files" task via API.