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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, SRT & VTT

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Get YouTube transcripts and subtitles from any video URL: full text, timestamps, SRT/VTT, language, auto-caption flag, translation to 100+ languages.

Pricing

Pay per event + usage

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Developer

CheapAPI

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Monthly active users

17 days ago

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Categories

Videos

Social media

Required

Stable row ID: the same video in the same delivered language always gets the same ID, across runs. Use it to deduplicate or to find new transcripts.

Type:string

input

Required

The link or ID you entered

Type:string

videoId

Required

11-character YouTube video ID

Type:string

videoUrl

Required

Canonical watch URL

Type:string

title

Optional

Video title

Type:string | null

transcriptAvailable

Required

true when a transcript was delivered (false rows are free)

Type:boolean

reason

Optional

Why no transcript was delivered (only on rows without a transcript)

Type:string

language

Optional

Language of the delivered text

Type:string | null

originalLanguage

Optional

Language of the captions on YouTube

Type:string | null

isTranslated

Optional

true when the text was translated

Type:boolean

translatedTo

Optional

Target language of the translation

Type:string | null

isAutoGenerated

Optional

Automatic captions (detected from caption timing; null for very short transcripts)

Type:boolean | null

segmentsCount

Optional

Number of caption lines

Type:integer

durationSeconds

Optional

End time of the last caption line, in seconds

Type:number

wordCount

Optional

Words in the transcript

Type:integer

characterCount

Optional

Characters in the transcript

Type:integer

text

Optional

Full transcript as plain text (when selected)

Type:string

segments

Optional

Caption lines with start, end, duration (seconds) and text (when selected)

Type:object[]

srt

Optional

Complete SRT subtitle file (when selected)

Type:string

vtt

Optional

Complete WebVTT subtitle file (when selected)

Type:string

requestedLanguages

Optional

Your preferred languages, in order

Type:string[] | null

matchedLanguage

Optional

The preferred language that was delivered

Type:string | null

languageUnavailable

Optional

true when none of the preferred languages was available and the default captions were delivered

Type:boolean

requestedTranslation

Optional

Requested translation language

Type:string | null

country

Optional

Country YouTube was opened from

Type:string

collectedAt

Optional

When the captions were collected (ISO 8601)

Type:string | null

scrapedAt

Required

When this run started (ISO 8601)

Type:string

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