# Collect Podcast Transcripts for Show Notes

**Use case:** 

Extract complete, timestamped transcript segments from one or more public YouTube podcast episodes in English. Use the returned titles, source URLs, language, segment counts, and full segments to support manual show-notes drafting and editorial review; the Actor does not detect podcasts or generate show notes automatically.

## Input

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXzTbCEqCJc",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sndW9hzX-wA"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "captionPolicy": "any",
  "includeSrt": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "videoId": {
    "label": "Video ID",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "videoUrl": {
    "label": "Canonical video URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Result status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Video title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "languageRequested": {
    "label": "Requested language",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "segmentCount": {
    "label": "Transcript segment count",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "segments": {
    "label": "Transcript segments",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "errorCode": {
    "label": "Stable error code",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "errorMessage": {
    "label": "User-facing error message",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [YouTube Transcript Extractor - Timestamps](https://apify.com/datascraperes/youtube-transcript-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/datascraperes/youtube-transcript-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

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For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/datascraperes/youtube-transcript-scraper.md

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