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from $5.00 / 1,000 caption transcripts

YouTube Transcriber

Transcribe YouTube videos. Captions when available, OpenAI Whisper fallback (BYOK) for the rest. No YouTube account needed.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 caption transcripts

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Arnas

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[0.2] — 2026-04-18

Changed

openaiApiKey is now optional. Captions-only workflows no longer require a key. With transcriptMethod=auto and no key, videos without captions in the requested language are skipped with reason no-openai-key-no-fallback instead of failing the run. Required only when transcriptMethod=whisper.

[0.1] — 2026-04-19

Added

Initial release. YouTube transcriber covering single video URLs.
Captions-first transcription via yt-dlp + json3 caption parsing.
OpenAI Whisper API fallback for videos without captions in the requested language. BYOK (bring your own OpenAI API key).
Two output formats: text (with optional timestamps), json (segments array).
yt-dlp + ffmpeg pinned in Docker image (yt-dlp 2026.3.17). Audio path validated at 87% real-video success rate during pre-build spike.
RESIDENTIAL proxy default (YouTube blocks datacenter IPs in 2026).
maxDurationMinutes cap (default 18) to keep audio under Whisper's 25 MB limit at typical bitrates.
maxWhisperMinutesPerRun cap (default 60) to bound user OpenAI bill per run.
Pay-per-event pricing matching the YouTube transcriber market: transcript-captions $0.0005 (matches supreme_coder/youtube-transcript-scraper), transcript-whisper $0.05 (covers proxy + compute COGS, still ~5-6× cheaper than codepoetry's bundled $0.012/min). Plus standard apify-actor-start $0.003.
Strict SSRF defense via hostname allowlist + canonical URL reconstruction before any subprocess invocation.
OpenAI key sanitization in error logs (sk-* masking).
Audio temp-file lifecycle (mkdtemp → try/finally cleanup → abort handler best-effort sweep).
Per-run summary log with per-reason skip counts and estimated user OpenAI cost.
Skip records emitted to dataset (transcript empty, skipReason filled) so users have in-product visibility into per-video outcomes.

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