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YouTube Transcript Pro — Videos, Shorts, Playlists & Channels

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Extract YouTube transcripts from videos, Shorts, playlists, channels, and search. Get text, timestamped segments, SRT, VTT, RAG chunks, and metadata. Supports language selection, auto captions, translation, and reliable proxy fallback. Pay only for successful transcripts.

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from $5.99 / 1,000 successful transcripts

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Zhihua Hu

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1.0.8

Replaced the invalid colon cache-key separator with an underscore so transcript, metadata, and discovery records satisfy Apify KVS key restrictions.
Added strict Apify-key validation and cross-run cache persistence regressions for transcript, metadata, and discovery entries.

1.0.7

Use one stable youtube-transcript-pro-cache-v2 named KVS for versioned, expiring transcript, metadata, and discovery cache records; report store availability and hit/miss/write counts.
Preserve best-effort cache behavior when KVS open/read/write fails, bypass transcript caching for recent/live items and fresh-caption retries, and keep transcript rendering plus successful PPE delivery on cache hits.
Add Channel-only parent identity fallback, non-network thumbnail fallback, and bounded Direct/Datacenter half-open recovery probes.
Add shared-store lifecycle, cache isolation/format reuse, failure-path, metadata fallback, and route probe budget regressions.

1.0.6

Fetch and normalize transcripts before optional metadata work, so unsuccessful transcripts skip enrichment requests.
Keep metadata traffic on direct/datacenter routes, reuse discovery metadata, and treat metadata enrichment as best-effort with at most one full yt-dlp extraction per successful video.
Add persistent transcript, metadata, and discovery caches with TTLs; cache raw transcript payloads so output formats and clipping are rendered locally while successful Dataset/PPE delivery still occurs on each run.
Add direct/datacenter half-open recovery and RUN_REPORT request/cache counters, without changing billing events or public inputs.
Remove $schema from the Dataset schema for Apify Cloud compatibility; add cost-path and cache regression tests.

1.0.5

Kept direct/datacenter BOT_CHECK circuit thresholds at two consecutive checks and set the residential threshold to five consecutive checks.
A successful request on a route resets that route's consecutive BOT_CHECK counter; each video still attempts a residential route at most once per route chain.
Kept run-scoped concurrency degradation, retry-storm protection, route diagnostics, and pending-queue fail-fast behavior unchanged.
Added residential threshold, reset, per-video proxy acquisition, and bounded 50-video retry regression tests.

1.0.4

Replaced fixed five-worker processing with shared adaptive concurrency: starts at two, may rise to three after ten successful requests without Bot Check/rate limits, and drops to one for the rest of the run after either signal.
Added per-route BOT_CHECK circuit breakers after two consecutive checks, route health counters in RUN_REPORT, bounded worker start jitter, and retry backoff with jitter.
Prevented BOT_CHECK from restarting the route chain; each video skips routes that already Bot Checked, and a closed set of allowed routes leaves untouched videos pending in UNPROCESSED.
Kept PPE pushes, successful counters, and checkpoints serialized in the main flow; added regression coverage for circuit behavior, pending videos, residential fallback, retry storms, and billing.

1.0.3

Merge discovery metadata with yt-dlp enrichment without allowing null values to erase known fields; metadata lookup failure no longer removes discovery values from successful transcript rows.
Mark direct Shorts URLs and channel /shorts discovery entries as Shorts, preserving that evidence through metadata enrichment and source merging.
Process deduplicated videos with bounded concurrency while keeping PPE pushes, charge-result checks, counters, and success checkpoints serialized (replaced by adaptive concurrency in 1.0.4).
Added metadata, Shorts, concurrency cap, deduplication, charge-zero, and charge-limit regression tests.

1.0.2

Preserve non-null playlist ID, title, and position through duplicate/source merging and final successful dataset output.
Install Deno 2.9.7 in the Docker image and explicitly set yt-dlp's JavaScript runtime for metadata and discovery calls.
Correct README failure-output wording and align PPE setup guidance across the README, billing report, and cloud checklist.
Added playlist metadata and shared yt-dlp runtime configuration regression tests.

1.0.1

Fixed Apify Python SDK 4.1.0 keyword-only PPE push and ChargeResult accounting/checkpoint handling.
Restricted the default Dataset to successful transcript rows; discovery and transcript failures go to ERRORS.json and RUN_REPORT.json.
Added valid Actor input/output/storage/Dockerfile links and rewrote output/dataset schemas, including nullable metadata.
Added a stable single-video input default/prefill for Store health checks and renamed the local result cap to maxSuccessfulTranscripts.
Enforced direct/datacenter/residential proxy selection and network-failure fallback for both discovery and transcript requests.
Limited fresh-caption backoff to metadata dated within 48 hours.
Added orchestration, billing, proxy, discovery, default input, and schema consistency tests.

1.0.0

Initial YouTube transcript Actor package.

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