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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Export public YouTube captions as transcript text and timestamped segments. Use video URLs or IDs, select a language, and download JSON or CSV for research and RAG.

Pricing

from $0.08 / 1,000 transcript extracteds

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0.0

(0)

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Fetch Cat

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🎬 YouTube video URLs

videoUrls

Optional

Public YouTube watch, shorts, live, embed, or youtu.be URLs to extract transcripts from.

Type:array

Video IDs

videoIds

Optional

Optional raw 11-character YouTube video IDs. Use this instead of URLs if you already have IDs.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Preferred caption language

language

Optional

Preferred caption language code, such as en, es, de, or fr. If unavailable, the actor uses the first public caption track.

Type:string

Default:en

Include timestamps

includeTimestamps

Optional

Include start and duration values for every transcript segment.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include video metadata

includeMetadata

Optional

Include title, channel name, duration, and thumbnail URL when YouTube exposes them publicly.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Maximum videos

maxVideos

Optional

Maximum number of videos to process in this run. Keep this low for the first test run.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:5

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

YouTube often blocks datacenter traffic. The actor uses Apify Residential Proxy by default for reliable caption access.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ]
}

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