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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Fast & Cheap

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from $2.50 / 1,000 transcripts

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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Fast & Cheap

YouTube Transcript Scraper - Fast & Cheap

Get transcripts/subtitles of any YouTube video (auto-generated or manual, any language) with timestamps. Bulk URLs, no browser, no API key.

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from $2.50 / 1,000 transcripts

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Get the transcript / subtitles of any YouTube video in seconds: manual or auto-generated captions, any language, with or without timestamps. Paste video URLs (watch, youtu.be, Shorts) or IDs, get clean text back.

  • Fast: no browser, ~2-3 seconds per video, runs in parallel
  • Reliable: automatic retries with fresh proxy sessions and residential fallback
  • Cheap: $4 per 1,000 transcripts, lower on paid Apify plans. Videos without captions are not charged.
  • Any language: choose preferred languages (e.g. en, ko, es); falls back to whatever is available

Use cases

  • Feed video content to LLMs / RAG / AI agents (summaries, Q&A, embeddings)
  • Content repurposing: blog posts, newsletters, social posts from videos
  • Research & monitoring: analyze what channels and competitors say
  • SEO & accessibility: generate text versions of your videos

Input

{"videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", "jNQXAC9IVRw"], "languages": ["en"], "includeTimestamps": true}

Output (one item per video)

{
"videoId": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
"title": "Me at the zoo",
"channel": "jawed",
"lengthSeconds": 19,
"viewCount": 380000000,
"language": "en",
"isAutoGenerated": false,
"availableLanguages": ["en", "de", "es"],
"text": "All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants ...",
"segments": [{"start": 1.2, "duration": 2.16, "text": "All right, so here we are,"}]
}

If a video has no captions you get "error": "NO_CAPTIONS" and you are not charged.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.004 per transcript (FREE plan), cheaper on paid plans. No monthly fee.