Collect YouTube captions for a research corpus

Created by

Khadin Akbar

Actor

Video Transcript & Subtitle Extractor

Extract captions and transcript text from public YouTube talks for research, note-taking, or downstream analysis.

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Video Transcript & Subtitle Extractorkhadinakbar/video-subtitle-extractor

Thumb

Title

Platform

Channel

+7 fields

Input

Video URLs(required)

url:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Preferred caption languages (priority order):en

Output format:json

Use Whisper AI when no captions available:true

Include video metadata:true

Output fields

Thumb

Title

Platform

Channel

Duration (s)

Lang

Source

Segments

Chars

URL

Error

How it works

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The Video Transcript & Subtitle Extractor Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like video urls, preferred caption languages (priority order), and more, to match your specific use case.

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Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as thumb, title, platform, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Collect YouTube captions for a research corpus" task via API.