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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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YouTube transcript scraper and API: get any video's transcript in about 3 seconds as text, timestamps, SRT or VTT subtitles, in its own language or translated. Built for AI agents, MCP and n8n. No captions, no charge. $2.99 per 1,000 on the Free plan, from $1.49 on paid plans.

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from $1.49 / 1,000 transcripts

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1.0 (2026-10-07)

First release.

Transcripts for a list of YouTube videos in one run: watch, youtu.be, Shorts, live and embed links, and video IDs.
Output formats: plain text, timestamped text, JSON segments, SRT and WebVTT.
Each video in the language it is spoken in by default, without knowing the language in advance.
Language priority list with a dropdown of 70 languages, language names or codes, regional variants, fallback to the original language, and YouTube machine translation.
Optional .srt, .vtt and .txt files per video with download links.
Live streams that are running, upcoming or not processed yet are reported with the reason.
Choice between human-made and auto-generated captions.
Optional merging of caption lines into longer blocks.
Video details with every transcript: title, channel, duration, views, description, keywords and thumbnail.
A status and a message for every input value. Only delivered transcripts are charged.
Built for speed: about 3 seconds for one video, 30 videos in about 5 seconds.
Drop-in input and output for workflows built for single-video transcript Actors (videoUrl, targetLanguage, data).

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