🎥 YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Extractor: Video Text to JSON

YouTube Transcript Extractor is a high-performance Apify actor designed to effortlessly scrape complete transcripts and subtitles from any YouTube video.

Whether a video has built-in closed captions (CC) or lacks them entirely, this tool uses advanced fallback techniques to guarantee accurate, readable text extraction. Enjoy enterprise-grade reliability at an indie-friendly price: $3 per 1,000 results | Pay-Per-Result only.

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🚀 Why use this Extractor? (Top Use Cases)

This scraper outputs clean, highly structured data explicitly designed for seamless integration into modern workflows:

• 🤖 AI Agents & LLMs: Feed the unified transcript_text directly into Claude, OpenAI, or custom RAG pipelines without needing to parse complex timestamp arrays.
• 📝 Content Repurposing: Instantly turn long-form YouTube videos or Shorts into blog posts, Twitter threads, or newsletters.
• 📊 NLP & Sentiment Analysis: Extract large-scale video text data for market research, trend spotting, and accessibility compliance.

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✨ Key Features

• 🎯 Universal Extraction: Retrieves existing transcripts or automatically generates subtitles for videos without built-in captions.
• 🧠 AI-Ready Data Structure: Returns both granular, timestamped subtitle arrays (perfect for video players) and a concatenated, flat string (perfect for LLM prompts).
• 🌍 Multi-Language Support: Automatically handles diverse languages to meet global content needs.
• ⚡️ Developer-Friendly & Cost-Effective: Zero base fees. You only pay for successful extractions. Export your results seamlessly to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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🛠 How it Works (Input Configuration)

Simply provide an array of YouTube URLs. The actor processes them concurrently for maximum speed.

Example Input:

{
  "url": [
    "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI)"
  ]
}

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📊 Output Example

The actor delivers deeply structured JSON. Notice the transcript_text field at the bottom—it provides the fully assembled text, saving you hours of string-manipulation code!

{
  "videoId": "vH2f7cjXjKI",
  "videoTitle": "Claude | Computer use for coding",
  "videoDescription": "",
  "videoDuration": "183",
  "thumbnailUrl": {
    "hqdefault": "[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/hqdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/hqdefault.jpg)",
    "maxresdefault": "[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/maxresdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/maxresdefault.jpg)"
  },
  "transcripts": {
    "en": {
      "auto": [
        {
          "start": "00:00:00",
          "end": "00:00:07",
          "text": "I'm Alex, I lead developer relations at Anthropic, and today I'm gonna be showing you a coding task with computer use."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "language": {
    "code": "en",
    "name": "English"
  },
  "transcript_text": "I'm Alex, I lead developer relations at Anthropic, and today I'm gonna be showing you a coding task with computer use. So we're gonna be showing Claude doing a website coding task by actually controlling my laptop..."
}

(Note: The transcript arrays have been shortened in this example for brevity, but the actual output contains the full timestamped timeline).

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