Extract YouTube Caption Text for Research
Extract YouTube Caption Text for Research. Turn YouTube videos into text for RAG, research and content workflows. Submit video URLs or IDs and retrieve available captions with optional timestamps. The Actor retrieves accessible captions; it does not transcribe audio or guarantee captions for every video. Unavailable, blocked, deleted or captionless videos return explained outcomes. Language.
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