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YouTube Transcript Cleaner for RAG

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Extracts clean YouTube transcripts (no timestamps) ready for LLMs and RAG pipelines.

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GapDiscover Studio

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YouTube Transcript Cleaner for RAG & LLMs

Extract clean, ready-to-use transcripts from YouTube videos. No timestamps, no noise — just pure text optimized for RAG pipelines, LLM training, and content analysis.

Why use this Actor?

Clean Output: Removes timestamps, newlines, and extra spaces.
LLM-Ready: Perfect for feeding into ChatGPT, Claude, or any RAG system.
Bulk Support: Process multiple videos in one run.
Error Handling: If a video has no subtitles, it returns a clear error message without failing the entire run.

How it works

Paste a list of YouTube video URLs into the input field.
Run the Actor.
Get a dataset with clean transcripts, character counts, and status for each video.

Use Cases

RAG Pipelines: Feed clean transcripts into your vector database.
Content Analysis: Analyze competitor videos without manual copy-pasting.
Research: Extract text from educational or documentary videos for study.

Input Example

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ]
}

## Output Example

{
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "transcript": "We're no strangers to love...",
  "charCount": 1234,
  "status": "success"
}

## Pricing

This Actor uses Pay-per-event pricing. You only pay for successfully processed transcripts ($0.005 per video).

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