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Youtube Transcript Scraper Task

Extracts the full transcript of any public YouTube video as clean, structured data. Paste a video URL and get timestamped segments, plain text, and optional SRT subtitles — in the language you choose, from auto-generated or manually uploaded captions. Built for RAG and AI pipelines, subtitles, content repurposing, and research. Videos with no captions are never charged.

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YouTube Transcript Scraper
YouTube Transcript Scraperf-keys/youtube-transcript-scraper
Title
Channel
Status
Language
+2 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Video URLs or IDs(required):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Preferred language:en
Translate when unavailable:false
Include SRT subtitle output:false

Output fields

Title
Channel
Status
Language
Segments
Transcript text

How it works

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Start the "Youtube Transcript Scraper Task" task

The YouTube Transcript Scraper Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like video urls or ids, preferred language, and more, to match your specific use case.

Receive the "Youtube Transcript Scraper Task" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as title, channel, status, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Youtube Transcript Scraper Task" task via API.

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