YouTube Transcript Scraper

Unlock the full text of any YouTube video in seconds. The YouTube Transcript Actor is a high-performance tool designed to extract complete, timestamped transcripts from YouTube. Whether you need data for AI training, content repurposing, or research, this actor provides a clean, structured output ready for immediate use.

Key Features

• Instant Extraction: Retrieve full transcripts by simply providing a video URL.
• Global Language Support: Automatically detects and extracts transcripts in multiple languages.
• Clean Data Output: Get structured JSON, CSV, or Excel files, optimized for downstream LLM processing (like GPT-4 or Claude).
• Fast & Reliable: Built to handle everything from short clips to multi-hour documentaries.

Typical Use Cases

• 🤖 AI & NLP Research: Perfect for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, or summarizing video content at scale.
• ✍️ Content Creation: Repurpose video scripts into blog posts, newsletters, or social media threads.
• 🔍 SEO & Accessibility: Improve video discoverability and make content accessible to the hearing impaired.
• 📊 Market Intelligence: Monitor competitor messaging and trending topics by analyzing their video scripts.

input

The actor accepts the following input:

• video_url: The full URL of the YouTube video. (Required)

Example input:

{
    "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
}

Output

The actor outputs the following data for each video:

• video_url: The input URL.
• video_id: The extracted video ID.
• transcript: A list of transcript segments (text, start, duration).
• full_text: The full transcript text joined by newlines.

Example output:

{
    "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "transcript": [
        {
            "text": "Never gonna give you up",
            "start": 0.0,
            "duration": 2.0
        },
        ...
    ],
    "full_text": "Never gonna give you up\nNever gonna let you down..."
}