YouTube Transcript Scraper
Pricing
from $17.00 / 1,000 single video's transcripts
YouTube Transcript Scraper: get transcripts of up to 10 YouTube videos or Shorts per run, in any language, as text, timestamped text, SRT or VTT. $0.02 each.
Up to 10 videos per run. Defaults to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" if left out. The videos to get transcripts for, one per line. Need more? Start another run, or call the API once per batch of 10.
Any YouTube link works: watch?v=, youtu.be/, /shorts/, /live/ or /embed/. The 11-character video ID on its own works too. Extra URL parameters such as &t=30s or &list= are ignored, and a video listed twice is fetched and charged only once.
API example: "videoIds": ["dQw4w9WgXcQ", "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw", "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tPEE9ZwTmy0"]
[ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]The languages you want, in order of preference, as ISO language codes such as en, es, de, fr, pt-BR or ja. For each video the actor goes down your list and uses the first language the video has.
Regional variants match each other: en finds en-GB or en-US, and pt-BR finds pt. An exact code match is always tried first.
Default: ["en"]
API example: "languages": ["es", "en"] means Spanish if the video has it, otherwise English.
[ "en"]YouTube has two kinds of captions: ones the creator uploaded, and ones YouTube makes with speech recognition ("auto-generated"). For each language, creator captions are always preferred.
true (default): if a language has only auto-generated captions, use them. Most videos have only these, so leave this on unless you need human-written text.
false: use creator-uploaded captions only. Videos without them are skipped and not charged.
API example: "includeAutoGenerated": false
What to do when a video has none of your languages.
true (default): return the transcript in a language the video does have. Check the language field of each result to see which one you got.
false: skip the video. Nothing is stored and you are not charged. The run log lists the languages the video had.
API example: "fallbackToAnyLanguage": false to get only the languages you asked for.
How each transcript is written.
segments (default): transcript is plain text, and a separate segments field lists every caption line with its time, eg {"start": 18.64, "duration": 3.24, "text": "We're no strangers to love"}. In the results, open the Timed segments tab to see one row per line.
text: the whole transcript as one paragraph, no times. Good for AI, search and word counts.
timestamped: one line per caption with its time, eg [0:18] We're no strangers to love.
srt: a complete SRT subtitle file, ready to save as .srt.
vtt: a complete WebVTT subtitle file, ready to save as .vtt.
API example: "outputFormat": "timestamped"