# YouTube transcripts with a timestamp on every line

**Use case:** 

Returns the caption track as its raw timed segments — one entry per line with its start time and duration — so you can jump to the moment a phrase was said, cut clips around it, or build a searchable index of a channel’s back catalogue. Video title, channel, duration and caption language come with each row. $4.00 per 1,000 transcripts, residential proxy included.

## Input

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY",
    "EJXTZ5jpSmk"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "format": "segments",
  "includeTimestamps": true,
  "includeMetadata": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "videoTimeoutSecs": 30,
  "maxRunSecs": 240,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Video title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "channelName": {
    "label": "Channel name",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "Transcript language",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isAutoGenerated": {
    "label": "Auto-generated",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "Word count",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "durationSec": {
    "label": "Duration (seconds)",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Video URL",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [YouTube Transcript API — Captions to Text, SRT & VTT](https://apify.com/insight.solutions/youtube-transcript-api.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/insight.solutions/youtube-transcript-api.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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