YouTube Transcript & Captions (any language, SRT/VTT)
Pricing
$3.30 / 1,000 transcript returneds
Get the transcript or captions of YouTube videos: plain text, timestamped segments, SRT or VTT, in your preferred language, human-made captions first. Failed videos are free.
YouTube video links (watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed, live) or 11-character video ids; channel links (@handle, /channel/UC..., /c/..., /user/...; add /videos, /shorts or /streams to take only that tab); playlist links (list=...). A channel or playlist gives its newest videos, up to 'Max videos per channel or playlist'. One dataset row per video.
For each channel or playlist link, the newest videos to transcribe (playlists: the first ones in playlist order). Listing is free; only returned transcripts are charged.
Caption languages in order of preference (ISO codes such as en, es, de). If none is available, the first available track is returned and flagged with languageFallback.
[ "en"]When a video has both human-made and auto-generated captions in a preferred language, return the human-made ones.
Plain text is always included.
When a video has no captions at all, download its audio and transcribe it with Whisper (small model). Charged per started audio minute, a separate event; failures are free. Needs at least 2048 MB memory; 4096 MB runs about twice as fast.