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.
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The YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Captions and Subtitles Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like video urls or ids, preferred languages, and more, to match your specific use case.
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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 "Get a YouTube transcript as plain text" task via API.
