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YouTube video transcripts as plain text

Plain-text transcripts of YouTube videos from their captions, with title, channel and language. Paste any video URLs; ideal for summaries, RAG pipelines and content repurposing.

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YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions & Subtitles, Cheap
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Title
Channel
Language
Auto-generated
+6 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

YouTube URLs or video IDs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ+1
Preferred languages:en
Output format:text

Output fields

Title
Channel
Language
Auto-generated
Status
Words
Seconds
Published
Transcript
URL

How it works

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Start the "YouTube video transcripts as plain text" task

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

Receive the "YouTube video transcripts as plain text" 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, language, 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 video transcripts as plain text" task via API.

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