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Get a YouTube video transcript as plain text
Give a YouTube video URL and get its transcript as clean text - manual captions and auto-generated ones. If a video is private, has no captions, or the request was blocked, you are told which one it was instead of receiving a blank row, and you are not charged for it.
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=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Preferred languages:en
Include timestamped segments:true
Proxy strategy:auto
Retries per video:3
Output fields
OK
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.
