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Get Transcripts for Every Video on a YouTube Channel

Paste a YouTube channel URL and get the transcript of its recent videos as text with timed segments. Falls back to speech recognition when a video has no captions. Great for building a knowledge base or feeding an LLM.

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YouTube Transcript API - Videos, Shorts, Channels to Text
YouTube Transcript API - Videos, Shorts, Channels to Textheadply/youtube-transcript-scraper
Platform
URL
Lang
Transcript
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Video, channel or playlist URLs(required)
url:https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown
Max videos:25

Output fields

Platform
URL
Lang
Transcript

How it works

Sign up on Apify01

Create your Apify account to access the YouTube Transcript API - Videos, Shorts, Channels to Text.

Start the run02

The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.

Receive the output03

Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.

Integrate into your workflow04

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.

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