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YouTube Caption Extractor
Created by
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.
YouTube Transcript APImaximedupre/youtube-transcript-api
Video ID
Video title
Channel name
Thumbnail URL
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Input
YouTube videos(required):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Preferred caption language:en
Caption source:creator_or_auto
Output fields
Video ID
Video title
Channel name
Thumbnail URL
Caption language
Caption source
Transcript text
Transcript segments
Transcript paragraphs
Transcript files
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the YouTube Transcript API.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
