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Video Subtitles Scraper — YouTube Captions to SRT/JSON

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from $3.00 / 1,000 video subtitles (srt/vtt)s

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Video Subtitles Scraper — YouTube Captions to SRT/JSON

Video Subtitles Scraper — YouTube Captions to SRT/JSON

Extract video subtitles and closed captions from YouTube in any available language: timestamped segments, full transcript text and video metadata. Handles manual and auto-generated captions with automatic language fallback.

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from $3.00 / 1,000 video subtitles (srt/vtt)s

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Crawlyard Data

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Download YouTube subtitles as SRT or VTT files, plain-text transcripts and timestamped JSON segments — in any available language, for manual and auto-generated captions alike.

Typical searches this Actor answers: 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.

Works with

Single videos, whole channels, playlists, YouTube Shorts, lectures, webinars and podcast episodes hosted on YouTube. Output per video: plain-text transcript, SRT and VTT subtitle files, timestamped segments and metadata — ready for caption editing, video-to-text conversion, note-taking and AI pipelines (works as a transcript API via the Apify API and MCP).

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.