# Changelog of YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API for AI | $4.50/1k (`glasswing/youtube-transcript-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/glasswing/youtube-transcript-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/glasswing/youtube-transcript-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to YouTube Transcript Scraper are recorded here. The newest release is first.

Apify renders this as a Changelog tab on the Store page. Keeping it current is a
visible signal that the Actor is maintained, which feeds the quality score that
drives Store and MCP search ranking. Add an entry with every published build.

### 1.1.0 - 2026-10-19

- **Search keywords**: transcribe the top videos YouTube finds for a keyword (up to 500 per keyword), with sort (relevance, upload date, views, rating), upload-date and length filters. Rows carry `searchQuery`, `searchRank` and `publishedTimeText`. YouTube search URLs are accepted as Start URLs too. A keyword with no videos is one free `not_found` row.
- **Subtitle files**: optional `srt` and `vtt` fields with the transcript as SubRip and WebVTT files, at no extra cost.
- **Video metadata** on every row: `viewCount`, `description` (email addresses, phone numbers, social profile links and @handles removed), `keywords`, `thumbnailUrl`, `isLiveContent`.
- Unchanged: price ($4.50 per 1,000 transcripts), existing fields and inputs; videos without captions stay free.

### 1.0.0 - 2026-10-19

First public release.

- Search and extraction implemented against the source's own public endpoints, with no login and no third-party API key.
- Every row carries `status`, so a missing record (`not_found`) and a failure (`error`) are told apart from real data. Only `ok` rows are charged.
- Records are validated against a schema before they are written, so an upstream change produces loud warnings instead of silently billing for empty rows.
- Callable with no arguments by an AI agent, which the input schema's defaults make safe.