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from $3.00 / 1,000 video captions

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YouTube Captions Downloader — CC to Text, SRT & VTT

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Download YouTube closed captions (CC) as plain text, SRT and VTT, with timestamped segments and video metadata, in any available language. Works with manual and auto-generated captions.

Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 video captions

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Crawlyard Data

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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.

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