YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Captions & Subtitles
Pricing
from $2.40 / 1,000 transcripts
Get the transcript of any YouTube video, Short, channel, playlist or search as text, SRT subtitles, timestamps or Markdown: YouTube video to text in any language, with title, channel and views. Download YouTube subtitles or transcribe videos without captions with AI. Pay per transcript.
User-facing changes. Dates are UTC.
languages set, videos with many translated captions (for example TED talks) could come back in the first language alphabetically (Arabic). Now the transcript is in the video's original language (the language YouTube auto-captions), human captions first.searchQueries), with sortBy, uploadDate and videoDuration filters and up to 500 results per search. Each row says the search and its position (searchQuery, searchRank). With onlyNewVideos and a schedule, a search becomes an alert with only new videos. Searching is free; only transcripts are charged.url, urls, startUrls, query, keywords...) are accepted, and an empty input runs a small sample from the input form instead of failing.aiFallback transcribes videos that have no captions with AI (open-source Whisper, 99 languages), billed $0.010 per started minute of audio instead of the transcript price. Off by default; runs with it on use 2 GB of memory. maxAiMinutesPerVideo caps the length. New fields transcriptSource and aiMinutesBilled.channels: @handle, channel or playlist links), newest videos first, up to 2,000 per channel. Listing is free; only transcripts are charged.onlyNewVideos: on a schedule, each run returns only the videos uploaded since the last one.