YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Playlists, SRT, Text
Pricing
from $1.40 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube transcript scraper and API: get captions for any video, Short, channel, playlist or search as text, timestamped segments or SRT. $3 per 1,000 transcripts, charged only when a transcript is returned. No API key, no login.
videoId
Optional
YouTube video ID (11 characters).
url
Optional
Watch URL of the video.
title
Optional
Video title.
channel
Optional
Channel name.
channelId
Optional
Channel ID (UC...).
channelHandle
Optional
Channel @handle, when the channel has one.
channelUrl
Optional
Channel page URL.
subscriberCount
Optional
Channel subscribers, rounded the way YouTube shows them (6.67M becomes 6670000).
channelThumbnail
Optional
URL of the channel avatar image.
publishedAt
Optional
Publish date (YYYY-MM-DD).
publishedText
Optional
Rounded age as the channel, playlist or search listing showed it (for example 3 days ago). Filled for listed videos, and the only date hint when publishedAt is empty.
durationSeconds
Optional
Video length in seconds.
viewCount
Optional
Views at the time of the run.
likeCount
Optional
Likes at the time of the run (exact count).
isLive
Optional
True for a live stream that has no fixed length yet.
description
Optional
Full video description.
keywords
Optional
Tags the uploader set on the video.
thumbnailUrl
Optional
URL of the largest video thumbnail.
language
Optional
Language code of the transcript returned, such as en or pt-BR.
isAutoGenerated
Optional
True when the transcript is YouTube's automatic speech recognition, false for uploaded captions.
requestedLanguage
Optional
The language asked for in the input.
languageFallback
Optional
True when the video has no track in the requested language and another one was returned.
availableLanguages
Optional
Every caption track the video offers: languageCode, name and isAutoGenerated.
transcriptText
Optional
The whole transcript as one plain-text string.
segments
Optional
Timed caption lines: text, start, duration and end in seconds. Present when outputFormat is segments or all; text only when includeTimestamps is off.
srt
Optional
The transcript as an SRT subtitle file. Present when outputFormat is srt or all.
wordCount
Optional
Words in the transcript (each CJK character counts as one).
route
Optional
Which YouTube client returned the captions (android or ios).
source
Optional
Where the video came from: video, or channel:, playlist: or search: plus the input.
input
Optional
The input value, on rows for an input that could not be used.
error
Optional
Set only on rows without a transcript, which are not charged: no-captions, unavailable, blocked, error, invalid-input or no-videos.
errorMessage
Optional
Plain-English reason for the error.
scrapedAt
Optional
When the row was produced (ISO 8601, UTC).
