YouTube Transcripts for RAG
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Turn YouTube videos into retrieval-ready text. Per video you get a full plain transcript plus token-bounded chunks (real cl100k tokens, your size and overlap) each carrying start and end timestamps, a deep link to the moment, and a deterministic chunk id for idempotent upserts. No API key, no proxy.
You can access the YouTube Transcripts for RAG programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "videos": [12 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",13 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY",14 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"15 ],16 "mode": "chunks",17 "languages": [18 "en"19 ],20 "allowAutoGenerated": true,21 "allowAnyLanguage": false,22 "chunkTokens": 400,23 "chunkOverlapTokens": 40,24 "includeFullTranscript": true,25 "maxVideos": 50,26 "proxyConfiguration": {27 "useApifyProxy": true,28 "apifyProxyGroups": [29 "RESIDENTIAL"30 ]31 },32 "residentialBudgetMb": 20033};34
35// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish36const run = await client.actor("omargnagy/youtube-transcripts-for-rag").call(input);37
38// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)39console.log('Results from dataset');40console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);41const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();42items.forEach((item) => {43 console.dir(item);44});45
46// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcripts for RAG API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: