# YouTube Transcript Scraper for videos without subtitles | 2025 (`fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-scraper-for-videos-without-subtitles-2025`) Actor Effortlessly scrape transcripts from YouTube videos, including those without built-in subtitles! This no-code, online tool uses advanced techniques to generate accurate and readable subtitles, ensuring you always get high-quality transcripts in just a few clicks. - **URL**: https://apify.com/fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-scraper-for-videos-without-subtitles-2025.md - **Developed by:** [fastcrawler](https://apify.com/fastcrawler) (community) - **Categories:** AI, Social media, Videos - **Stats:** 62 total users, 0 monthly users, 80.8% runs succeeded, 5 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per usage This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage ## What's an Apify Actor? An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md. ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run. For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below. Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`). # README ## YouTube Transcript Scraper support videos without subtitles ｜ 2025 Effortlessly scrape transcripts from YouTube videos, including those without built-in subtitles! This tool uses advanced techniques to **generate subtitles** for videos that lack them, ensuring accurate and readable transcripts. Perfect for **content analysis**, **accessibility**, and **research purposes**. ### 🌟 Key Features - ✅ Retrieve transcripts from YouTube videos with available subtitles. - 🤖 Automatically generate subtitles for videos without built-in captions. - 🌍 Supports multiple languages to meet diverse content needs. - ✨ Outputs clean, well-structured text for easy integration and use. **Optimize your workflow** and unlock the full potential of YouTube content with this powerful tool! 🚀 ### Input Parameters | Field | Type | Description | |----|----------|---------------| | url | string | URL of the youtube. eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI | | proxy | Proxy Configuration | Configuration for using proxies during the actor run. | ### Output Example ``` { "videoId": "vH2f7cjXjKI", "channelName": "Anthropic", "channelFollowers": 65300, "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrDwWp7EBBv4NwvScIpBDOA", "videoTitle": "Claude | Computer use for coding", "videoFulltitle": "Claude | Computer use for coding", "videoDescription": "With the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, we’re introducing a new capability in beta: computer use. Developers can now direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking, and typing text.\n\nWhile groundbreaking, computer use is still experimental—at times cumbersome and error-prone. We're releasing computer use early for feedback from developers.\n\nIn this demo, Claude creates a themed website—generating code, launching a server, and fixing its own mistakes.\n\nClaude is generating all the computer actions shown here. \n\nThis demonstration was recorded in a controlled environment, with some supporting infrastructure simplified to highlight the core capabilities.\n\nRead more about Claude and computer use: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use", "videoDuration": 183, "videoDurationString": "3:03", "videoViewCount": 241005, "videoLikeCount": 6267, "videoDislikeCount": "", "videoFavoriteCount": "", "videoCommentCount": 480, "videoUploadDate": "20241022", "categories": [ "Science & Technology" ], "tags": [], "transcript": [ [ "en", "I'm Alex, I lead developer\nrelations at Anthropic, and today I'm gonna be\nshowing you a coding task with computer use. So we're gonna be showing Claude\ndoing a website coding task by actually controlling my laptop. But before we start coding, we need an actual website for\nClaude to make changes to. So, let's ask Claude to\nnavigate to claude.ai within my Chrome browser, and ask Claude within claude.ai to create a fun, 90s themed\npersonal homepage for itself. Claude opens Chrome, searches for claude.ai, and then types in a prompt\nasking the other Claude to create a personal homepage for itself. Claude.ai returns some code, and that gets nicely rendered in an Artifact on the right-hand side. That looks great, but I want to make a few\nchanges to the website locally on my own computer. Let's ask Claude to download the file and then open it up in VS Code. Claude clicks the save to file button, opens up VS Code, and then finds the file\nwithin my Downloads folder and opens it up. Perfect. Now that the file's up and running, let's ask Claude to start up a server so that we can actually view\nthe file within our browser. Claude opens up the VS Code terminal and tries to start a server. But it hits an error, we don't actually have Python\ninstalled on our machine. But that's all right, because Claude realizes this by looking at the terminal output, and then tries again with Python 3, which we do have installed on our machine. That works, so now the\nserver's up and running. Now that we have the local server started, we can go manually take\na look at the website within the browser, and it looks pretty good, but I notice that\nthere's actually an error in the terminal output, and we also have this missing\nfile icon at the top here. Let's ask Claude to identify this error and then fix it within the file. Claude visually reads the terminal output and opens up the find and\nreplace tool in VS Code to find the line that's\nthrowing the actual error. In this case, we just ask Claude to get\nrid of the error entirely, so it will just delete the whole line. Then, Claude will save the file and automatically rerun the website. So now that the error is gone, let's go take a final look at our website, and we can see that the\nfile icon has disappeared and the error is gone as well. Perfect. So that's coding with\ncomputer use and Claude. This took a few prompts now, but we can imagine in the future that Claude will be able to\ndo tasks like this end to end." ] ] } ``` ### Contact and Feature Requests If you need any sort of support, please send an email to fastcrawler9@gmail.com or [contact us](https://t.me/FastScraperCustomerBot) # Actor input Schema ## `url` (type: `string`): The URL of website you want to get the data from. ## `start_from` (type: `string`): From what time in the video do you want to start getting subtitles ## `end_to` (type: `string`): From what time in the video do you want to end subtitles ## `language` (type: `string`): Language ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Configuration for using proxies during the actor run. ## Actor input object example ```json { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI", "start_from": "00:00", "end_to": "50:19", "language": "en", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI", "start_from": "00:00", "end_to": "50:19", "language": "en", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-scraper-for-videos-without-subtitles-2025").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI", "start_from": "00:00", "end_to": "50:19", "language": "en", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-scraper-for-videos-without-subtitles-2025").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI", "start_from": "00:00", "end_to": "50:19", "language": "en", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }' | apify call fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-scraper-for-videos-without-subtitles-2025 --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-scraper-for-videos-without-subtitles-2025" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/vWFAnsc5dS02mccSs/builds/2ct1ulNSleKhFFJ4y/openapi.json