YouTube Transcript Scraper: Bulk Videos, Full Text & SRT

YouTube Transcript Scraper - Paste a list of YouTube links and get every transcript back as full text, timestamped lines and an .srt file, in one run.

What does YouTube Transcript Scraper do?

Many videos in one run, each row with the full transcript text, timestamped lines, an SRT subtitle text, the title, channel and views - and a video without captions gets a clear status row instead of failing the whole run.

• Paste many video links or IDs in one run
• Full transcript text plus timestamped lines
• Ready SRT subtitle text per video
• Title, channel, length and views on every row
• Pick languages in order, uploaded captions first

Who uses YouTube Transcript Scraper, and for what

• AI builders - feed whole playlists of talks into a RAG index
• Bloggers - turn a video into a written post in minutes
• Researchers - pull the words of 100 interviews into one CSV
• Editors - get .srt subtitles to fix and re-upload

Why this YouTube Transcript Scraper?

The weak ones break when YouTube changes its pages or blocks data-center addresses, so runs fail and users leave bad reviews. This YouTube Transcript Scraper checks every run and tells you plainly when a page could not be read, instead of returning empty or wrong rows.

Data you get from YouTube Transcript Scraper

Every result is one flat row with these fields (values from a real run):

Field	Example
videoId	IELMSD2kdmk
url	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELMSD2kdmk
status	ok
title	Apache Spark in 100 Seconds
channel	Fireship
channelId	UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA
lengthSeconds	199
viewCount	601403
description	Try Brilliant free for 30 days https://brilliant.org/fireshi...
availableLanguages	["en (auto)"]
language	en
languageName	English (auto-generated)
isAutoGenerated	true
wordCount	673
text	Apache spark an open- Source data analytics engine that can ...
segments	[{"start": 0.32, "dur": 4.08, "text": "Apache spark an open-...
srt	1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,400 Apache spark an open- Source...

How to use YouTube Transcript Scraper

1. Press Start - the form already holds an example that works.
2. Put in your own input (see the fields on the Input tab).
3. Run it once, or put it on an Apify Schedule to get fresh rows every day.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send them to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, the Apify API or an AI agent (Apify MCP server).

Input example

{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELMSD2kdmk",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "fallbackToAnyLanguage": true,
  "includeSegments": true,
  "includeSrt": true,
  "maxItems": 2,
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

Output example (a real run)

[
  {
    "videoId": "IELMSD2kdmk",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELMSD2kdmk",
    "status": "ok",
    "title": "Apache Spark in 100 Seconds",
    "channel": "Fireship",
    "channelId": "UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA",
    "lengthSeconds": 199,
    "viewCount": 601403,
    "description": "Try Brilliant free for 30 days https://brilliant.org/fireship You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.\n\nLearn the basics of Apache Spark - a data processing tool for large-scale analytics and machine learning. Discover how the world's largest companies use Spark to analyze massive datasets. \n\n#programming #ai #thecodereport \n\n💬 Chat with Me on Discord\n\nhttps://discord.gg/fireship\n\n🔗 Resources\n\nScala in 100 Seconds https://youtu.be/I7-hxTbpscU\nApache Kafka in 100 Seconds https://youtu.be/uvb00oaa3k8\n\n📚 Chapters\n\n🔥 Get More Content - Upgrade to PRO\n\nUpgrade at https://fireship.io/pro\nUse code YT25 for 25% off PRO access \n\n🎨 My Editor Settings\n\n- Atom One Dark \n- vscode-icons\n- Fira Code Font\n\n🔖 Topics Covered\n\n- What is Apache Spark?\n- Apache Spark vs Hadoop\n- Apache Spark quickstart tutorial\n- Who created Apache Spark?\n- Tools build with Java\n- How companies perform machine learning at scale",
    "availableLanguages": [
      "en (auto)"
    ],
    "language": "en",
    "languageName": "English (auto-generated)",
    "isAutoGenerated": true,
    "wordCount": 673,
    "text": "Apache spark an open- Source data analytics engine that can process massive streams of data from multiple sources like an octopus juggling chainsaws it was created in 2009 by mate zaharia at UC Berkeley's amp lab around this time the amount of data being collected on the internet was exploding from megabytes to pedabytes making it impossible to analyze on a single machine but there was already a clever programming model called map reduce you map data into key value pairs Shuffle and sort them into groups by key then reduce each group to to compute a final result this allowed large data sets to be distributed across multiple machines but there was still a huge bottleneck caused by dis iio aache spark fixed this by doing most of its work in memory instead of reading from disk which can be up to 100 times faster and that's a game Cher for big data analytics and machine learning it's used by Amazon to analyze e-commerce data by NASA's jet propulsion lab to analyze deep space along with 80% of Fortune 500 companies to process all their data desp

One flat row per result.

How much does YouTube Transcript Scraper cost?

You pay only per result (pay per event) - no monthly fee, no minimum, and the price per result is lower on Apify's Bronze, Silver and Gold plans. The exact price is on the Pricing tab. Apify's free plan credit is enough to try it on real input.

You want	What you pay for
A quick test with the example	a few results
A daily scheduled run	only the rows that run returns
A big one-off export	the results delivered - set a maximum in the input

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FAQ

Does YouTube Transcript Scraper need a login, cookies or an API key? No. It reads public pages only.

Can I run YouTube Transcript Scraper on a schedule? Yes - with Apify Schedules; each run returns fresh rows.

Can I call it from Python, JavaScript or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API, the Apify client libraries or the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal? It collects only data anyone can see without logging in. You are responsible for using it within the source site's terms and data protection law (GDPR, CCPA).

What if the site blocks a request? The run retries from a fresh connection and, if it still cannot read the page, stops with a clear message - never with made-up rows.

Do I need proxies? No setup needed - YouTube Transcript Scraper uses Apify Proxy by default where the site needs it.

Troubleshooting

• No results: check the input (a public URL or a search term that returns results in a normal browser), then try the example input once.
• Fewer results than expected: raise the maximum in the input; some sites show only a part of their data without logging in, and YouTube Transcript Scraper never logs in.
• The run stopped with a message: the message says what the site answered; run it again later or with fewer items.

Your feedback

Missing a field, found a bug, or need another site? Open an issue on the Issues tab - issues are answered and fixed. If YouTube Transcript Scraper saved you time, a short review on this page helps others find it.

Data source: www.youtube.com

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