YouTube Transcript Scraper - Fast & Cheap
Pricing
from $2.50 / 1,000 transcripts
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.
Pricing
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.