Save YouTube Subtitle

Save YouTube subtitles/transcripts together with basic video metadata (title, channel, views).

Results are pushed directly to the Apify Dataset — no files are saved.

Input

{
  "timestamps": false,
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SieELGaJV8k"
  ]
}

• startUrls — list of YouTube video URLs.
• timestamps — if true, the returned text will include [HH:MM:SS.mmm] prefixes per line.

Output

Each video produces one Dataset item. The dataset schema is defined in .actor/dataset_schema.json and includes two preset views in the Apify Console: Overview (all key fields) and Transcript (just the video and its text).

Field	Type	Description
videoUrl	string (uri)	Canonical URL of the YouTube video.
videoId	string	11-character YouTube video identifier.
videoTitle	string | null	Video title as reported by YouTube.
channelName	string | null	Display name of the channel that published the video.
views	string | null	View count at the time of extraction (raw value from YouTube).
text	string	Full transcript. Includes [HH:MM:SS.mmm] prefixes when timestamps is true.

Example item:

[
  {
    "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wg1A4m0VsA",
    "videoId": "2wg1A4m0VsA",
    "videoTitle": "El BIS lleva años explicándonos dónde encaja XRPL...",
    "channelName": "Fran De Olza",
    "views": "1933",
    "text": "El 27 de mayo de 2026, una de las instituciones..."
  }
]

Proxy

The Actor tries Apify Datacenter Proxy first and falls back to Residential Proxy (US) only when datacenter requests fail. This minimises residential traffic costs.