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This Actor extracts the transcript from a YouTube video. Fast and cheap

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YouTube Transcript API

Extract YouTube video transcripts in bulk — fast, no browser, no YouTube Data API key required.

Paste video URLs or IDs, run the actor, and get timestamped captions plus video titles in your dataset. Supports watch links, Shorts, youtu.be, and raw 11-character video IDs.

What you get

Field	Description
`videoId`	YouTube video ID
`videoUrl`	Full watch URL
`title`	Video title
`language`	Transcript language code
`transcript`	Timestamped segments (JSON) or plain text
`fullText`	All segments merged into one string
`segmentCount`	Number of caption lines

Failed videos are included with success: false and an error message — so you never lose track of what didn't work.

Input

Parameter	Default	Description
urls	—	List of YouTube URLs or video IDs
language	`en`	Preferred caption language (`es`, `fr`, `de`, …)
format	`json`	`json` for timestamped segments, `text` for plain string
includeFullText	`true`	Add a merged `fullText` field (JSON format only)
maxConcurrency	`20`	Parallel requests — increase for large batches
maxRetries	`3`	Retries on rate limits and server errors

Example input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "format": "json",
  "includeFullText": true
}

Use cases

Feed transcripts into LLMs for summarization, Q&A, or RAG pipelines
Repurpose video content into blog posts, newsletters, or social copy
Build searchable archives from lectures, podcasts, and interviews
Batch-process hundreds of videos in a single run

Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML from the Apify Console.

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