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YouTube Transcript Scraper (Captions API)

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Get the transcript of any YouTube video as text and timed segments. Every transcript is labelled manual or auto-generated, flags a different language than the one you asked for, and shows how much of the video it covers. Videos without one are listed free.

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Videos

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YouTube videos

videos

Required

Video links or 11-character video ids. Watch, youtu.be, Shorts, live and embed links all work. One transcript per video; duplicates are fetched once.

Type:array

Language

language

Optional

Language code of the transcript you want, like en, es, de or pt-BR. Leave empty for the language spoken in the video.

Type:string

Use the video's own language if yours isn't there

fallbackToOtherLanguage

Optional

On: a video with no captions in your language returns its original-language transcript, labelled languageMatched: false (and charged, since it is a transcript). Off: such videos are listed as not available and not charged.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

YouTube asks data-center IPs to sign in. With plain Apify Proxy (the default) each video is tried on a data-center IP first and moves to a residential one if YouTube refuses. Pick a group to use only that group.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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