YouTube Caption Extractor
Maxime Dupré
Extract available captions from the public YouTube watch URL and read them as text. This example asks for English captions and allows creator-provided or auto-generated captions. The result includes the transcript, caption language and source, timestamped segments, and links to SRT, VTT, Markdown, and PDF files.
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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "YouTube Caption Extractor" task via API.
