YouTube Transcript Scraper - Reliable, Pay Only for Results
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from $6.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts and subtitles from videos, Shorts, channels, playlists and search: clean text, timestamps, SRT, 100+ languages and translation. Automatic retries, and you never pay for videos without captions.
Video, Shorts, channel (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd) or playlist links. Plain video IDs also work.
[ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw", "https://www.youtube.com/@TED"]Optional. Get transcripts for the top videos of a YouTube search, e.g. 'how to start a podcast'.
[]How many of the latest videos to take from each channel, playlist or search. Single video links are always included.
Language codes in order of preference, e.g. en, ar, es, fr, de. The first available one is used.
[ "en"]If none of your preferred languages exist, return the video's own transcript instead of nothing.
Language code to translate every transcript into using YouTube's built-in translation, e.g. en or ar. Leave empty to keep the original language.
Use captions written by the creator when they exist, and fall back to YouTube's automatic captions.
Add each caption line with its start time and duration.
Add the transcript in SRT subtitle format, ready to save as a .srt file.
How many videos to process at once.
Proxy servers used to reach YouTube. YouTube blocks datacenter IPs, so residential proxies are used by default.
{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ]}