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Get a YouTube transcript as plain text
Timestamps switched off, so each row is a clean line of speech you can paste into a document, feed to a model or diff against a script. The example uses a public lecture video; swap the URL for any video that has captions. The example video is "But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1" by 3Blue1Brown.
YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Captions and Subtitlesneverempty/youtube-transcript-reliable
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Video ID
Title
Channel
+6 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
Video URLs or IDs(required):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk
Preferred languages:en
Include timestamped segments:false
Proxy strategy:auto
Retries per video:3
Output fields
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Video ID
Title
Channel
Lang
Auto-generated
Lines
Transcript
Why it failed
URL
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Captions and Subtitles.
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.
