YouTube Shorts Transcript Scraper
Pricing
from $2.80 / 1,000 shorts
[$4/1K Shorts] Transcript of any YouTube Short: clean text, timestamps, spoken language, 3-second hook, plus title, channel, views, likes and date. Links or whole channels. Shorts without captions are free. No login.
type
Optional
Row kind: 'reel' for a transcribed video, 'error' for a URL that could not be transcribed (reason in errorMessage), 'notice' when a filter left nothing to transcribe. Error and notice rows are never billed.
url
Optional
The video URL exactly as submitted.
platform
Optional
Source platform detected from the URL: youtube (TikTok and Instagram Reels links are accepted too).
videoId
Optional
YouTube video id (the 11 characters after /shorts/).
title
Optional
Title of the Short.
channelId
Optional
YouTube channel id (UC…).
channelUrl
Optional
Link to the channel.
channelSubscribers
Optional
Subscribers of the channel (YouTube rounds large numbers).
views
Optional
Views of the Short.
likes
Optional
Likes of the Short.
postedAt
Optional
Publish time, ISO 8601 UTC.
durationSeconds
Optional
Video length in seconds.
language
Optional
Language code of the caption track used (en, es, ru …). With Auto this is the language actually spoken in the Short, never a machine translation.
captionsType
Optional
Which caption track was used: manual (the creator's subtitles), auto (YouTube's automatic captions in the spoken language) or auto-translated (only when you picked a language the Short is not spoken in).
transcriptSource
Optional
Where the text comes from: platform-captions — YouTube's own caption track.
transcriptText
Optional
Full transcript as one clean string (YouTube's caption lines joined with spaces; markers such as [music] kept).
firstThreeSecondsSpeech
Optional
The words spoken before the 3.0 second mark — the spoken hook. Caption lines carry one timestamp, so words inside a line are spread evenly across it.
transcript
Optional
Transcript split into caption lines: start and end in seconds, text. Lines do not overlap. Present when timestamped segments are enabled.
caption
Optional
The Short's description text, as written by the creator.
thumbnailUrl
Optional
Thumbnail image of the Short.
speechDetected
Optional
True when the transcript has text.
errorCode
Optional
Short machine-readable reason on error rows: no_captions, youtube_refused, not_found, not_public, too_long, unsupported_url, profile_failed, nothing_newer.
errorMessage
Optional
Human-readable failure reason on error rows.
scrapedAt
Optional
UTC timestamp when the video was processed, ISO 8601.
isOutlier
Optional
True when the Short got at least 3× the channel's usual views in this run.
vsAuthorMedian
Optional
This Short's views divided by the channel's median. 5 means five times the channel's usual.
vsAuthorBasis
Optional
What was compared: views or likes.
kind
Optional
On notice rows: no-results — a filter left nothing to transcribe.
comments
Optional
Comments on the Short.