YouTube Transcript Fetcher

Fetches transcripts from any YouTube video using TranscriptAPI.com.

Features

• Supports full YouTube URLs or 11-char video IDs
• Returns transcript with timestamps
• Includes video metadata (title, author)
• Returns full text concatenation for easy processing

Input

Field	Type	Description
videoUrl	String	YouTube URL or video ID (required)

Output

Each run produces one dataset item with:

• videoId - YouTube video ID
• language - Transcript language code
• title - Video title
• author - Channel name
• transcript - Array of {text, start, duration} objects
• fullText - Complete transcript as plain text

Usage

# Via Apify API
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/mapsize17~youtube-transcript-fetcher/runs" \
  -d '{"videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"}'

Environment Variables

• TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY - Your TranscriptAPI.com API key (required)