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Get a YouTube transcript in a chosen language
The language list decides which caption track is used, and the Actor tells you which one it actually got rather than silently returning another language. This example asks for Spanish first and falls back to English. The example video is "Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee" by LuisFonsiVEVO.
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=kJQP7kiw5Fk
Preferred languages:es+1
Include timestamped segments:true
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.
