YouTube Transcript Scraper - Fast, Cheap, Any Language

Get the transcript / subtitles / captions of any YouTube video as clean text plus timestamped segments. Paste video links (watch, Shorts, youtu.be, live, embed) or IDs — hundreds at once.

• Any language — pick your preferred languages; human-made captions are preferred over auto-generated ones.
• Video details included — title, channel, view count and duration in every result.
• Reliable — YouTube blocks cloud IPs, so every request goes through rotating residential proxies with automatic retries.
• Fair — videos with no captions, private or deleted videos are not charged.

Output

{
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video)",
  "channel": "Rick Astley",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "durationSeconds": 213,
  "viewCount": 1700000000,
  "language": "English",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "isAutoGenerated": false,
  "wordCount": 487,
  "text": "We're no strangers to love ...",
  "segments": [{"start": 18.64, "duration": 3.24, "text": "We're no strangers to love"}]
}

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or send it to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n or straight into your LLM / RAG pipeline.

Use cases

• AI & RAG — feed video knowledge into ChatGPT, Claude or your vector database.
• Content repurposing — turn videos into blog posts, newsletters and social posts.
• Research — analyse what creators and competitors say, at scale.
• SEO — mine the exact words used in top-ranking videos.
• Subtitles & accessibility — timestamped segments ready for SRT conversion.

Input

{
  "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", "https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0", "jNQXAC9IVRw"],
  "languages": ["en", "es"],
  "includeTimestamps": true
}

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 transcripts ($0.003 per video), only for videos that return a transcript. No start fee worth mentioning, no monthly rental.

FAQ

What if a video has no captions? It's skipped and you're not charged. The log tells you why.

What if my language isn't available? You get the first available transcript, with its languageCode so you can tell.

Does it work for Shorts and live streams? Yes, as long as YouTube has captions for them.