YouTube Transcript Scraper
Pricing
$4.00 / 1,000 transcript scrapeds
Get the full transcript of any YouTube video with captions, plus title, channel, views and duration. Works on Shorts and any URL format. Pay only per transcript delivered.
Video URLs or IDs. Accepts watch links, youtu.be, Shorts, embed and live URLs, or bare 11-character IDs.
Preferred caption language code, e.g. en, fr, es. Leave empty to take the human-written track when one exists, otherwise auto-generated.
Adds a cues array with start time, duration and text for every caption line. Leave off for just the plain text.
By default a video without captions is still reported as a row (never charged) so you can see which ones failed. Turn this on to omit them entirely.
RESIDENTIAL is required. Measured on the Apify platform: datacenter IPs return 0 of 3 transcripts because YouTube answers them with "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot", while residential returns 3 of 3. Changing this will break the Actor.
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