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YouTube Shorts Transcript Scraper

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YouTube Shorts Transcript Scraper

YouTube Shorts Transcript Scraper

Under maintenance

Extract transcripts of YouTube Shorts — text, SRT and VTT per Short, from links, a channel or a playlist.

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from $3.00 / 1,000 video transcripts

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Get transcripts of YouTube Shorts — paste Shorts URLs, a channel or a playlist and receive plain text, SRT and VTT for every Short in one run. Ideal for repurposing Shorts into posts, captions and scripts.

Typical searches this Actor answers: youtube transcript scraper, youtube transcript api, youtube to srt api, download youtube subtitles as srt, youtube captions to text, youtube transcript api, extract closed captions, bulk youtube subtitle download.

What you get per video

  • srt — ready-to-save SubRip file content
  • vtt — ready-to-save WebVTT file content
  • transcript — clean plain text
  • segments[{start, duration, text}] for precise timing work
  • language, languageName, isAutoGenerated, availableLanguages
  • Video metadata: title, channel, duration, views, publish date

Bulk input: playlists & whole channels

Paste a playlist URL (expands to up to ~100 videos) or a channel URL / @handle (latest 15 videos) alongside normal video URLs — everything is expanded automatically and transcribed in one run. maxVideosPerSource caps the expansion.

Use cases

  • Repurpose Shorts into posts, captions and scripts
  • Analyse hooks and wording of viral Shorts at scale
  • Caption files (SRT/VTT) for re-uploads and edits

Input

Paste video URLs (or IDs), pick preferred languages (fallback is automatic), toggle timestamps/SRT/metadata. Batches run concurrently.

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged only for videos that actually return subtitles. No subscription, no monthly fee.

Why teams use it

Subtitle files for video localization and accessibility, transcripts for LLM/RAG pipelines, caption corpora for research, and content repurposing at scale — without browser automation or API keys.