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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Captions & Subtitles

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Get the transcript of any YouTube video, Short, channel, playlist or search results as text, timestamped segments, SRT, VTT or Markdown, in any available language, with title, channel, duration and views. Videos without captions can be transcribed with AI (Whisper). Pay per transcript.

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from $2.40 / 1,000 transcripts

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Developer

Fernando Guiraud

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Categories

Videos

Social media

videoId

Optional

YouTube video ID

Type:string | null

url

Optional

Video link

Type:string | null

status

Optional

'ok' (billed), 'no-captions', 'unavailable' (private/removed/age-restricted) or 'error' (none billed)

Type:string | null

title

Optional

Video title

Type:string | null

channel

Optional

Channel name

Type:string | null

channelId

Optional

Channel ID (UC...)

Type:string | null

durationSeconds

Optional

Video length in seconds

Type:integer | null

viewCount

Optional

Views

Type:integer | null

isLive

Optional

True for live streams and their recordings

Type:boolean | null

keywords

Optional

Tags set by the creator

Type:array | null

description

Optional

Video description

Type:string | null

language

Optional

Language code of the returned transcript

Type:string | null

languageName

Optional

Language name as YouTube shows it

Type:string | null

isAutoGenerated

Optional

True for YouTube's automatic captions, false for human captions

Type:boolean | null

languageMatched

Optional

False when none of the preferred languages existed and another one was returned

Type:boolean | null

availableLanguages

Optional

All caption tracks of the video

Type:array | null

text

Optional

Transcript as paragraphs

Type:string | null

segments

Optional

Transcript lines with start and end time in seconds

Type:array | null

srt

Optional

SRT subtitles

Type:string | null

vtt

Optional

WebVTT subtitles

Type:string | null

markdown

Optional

Transcript with [HH:MM:SS] timestamps per paragraph

Type:string | null

chunks

Optional

~chunkSize-character pieces with start/end times and token estimate, for RAG

Type:array | null

wordCount

Optional

Words in the transcript

Type:integer | null

note

Optional

Why no transcript was returned

Type:string | null

error

Optional

Error message

Type:string | null

foundIn

Optional

Channel or playlist the video was listed from (when channels were given).

Type:string | null

input

Optional

The input value an error refers to.

Type:string | null

transcriptSource

Optional

Where the transcript comes from: 'captions' (YouTube captions) or 'ai-whisper' (transcribed with AI because the video had no captions).

Type:string | null

aiMinutesBilled

Optional

Minutes billed for an AI transcription (ai-transcription-minute).

Type:integer | null

warning

Optional

Run-level warning.

Type:string | null

searchQuery

Optional

The search this video was found with

Type:string | null

searchRank

Optional

Position of the video in the YouTube search results (1 = first)

Type:integer | null

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