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Youtube Transcript Scraper

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Extract transcripts and captions from YouTube videos with language selection support. Returns timestamped segments, full concatenated text, and basic video metadata.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

Rating

5.0

(2)

Developer

Crawler Bros

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Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

a month ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

Developer tools

Video URLs

videoUrls

Required

YouTube video URLs, short links (youtu.be), shorts URLs, or plain video IDs.

Type:string[]

Min. items:1

Preferred Language

language

Optional

Preferred transcript language code (e.g., 'en', 'es', 'fr'). Leave empty for default language. If the requested language is not available, the scraper will attempt translation or fall back to the default.

Type:string

Default:

Include Auto-Generated Captions

includeAutoGenerated

Optional

Whether to include auto-generated captions when manual captions are not available.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Use Whisper AI fallback

useWhisper

Optional

When YouTube has no transcript (uploader disabled them, or video is music-only), download the audio and transcribe with Whisper (faster-whisper, CPU). Adds ~30-180 s per video. Off by default to keep fast runs free.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Whisper Model

whisperModel

Optional

Whisper model size to use when useWhisper is enabled. Larger = more accurate but slower and more RAM. 'base' is balanced.

Type:string

Default:base

Options:

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