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$3.00 / 1,000 transcript scrapeds

YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlists

Bulk-extract YouTube transcripts (manual or auto captions) with timestamps as text, SRT, VTT or JSON – original language or auto-translated. Videos, Shorts & playlists; includes title, channel, duration, views, publish date. $2 per 1,000 videos.

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$3.00 / 1,000 transcript scrapeds

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YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions & Playlists in Bulk

Extract the transcript of any YouTube video – manually created subtitles or auto-generated captions – with timestamps, as plain text, SRT, WebVTT or JSON segments. Feed video URLs, Shorts, bare video IDs or whole playlists, choose your preferred languages or let YouTube auto-translate the transcript into any language, and get video metadata (title, channel, duration, views, publish date, keywords) in the same item.

Reliable and cheap: $3 per 1,000 videos, no YouTube API key, no quotas.

Output

{
  "videoId": "aircAruvnKk",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",
  "title": "But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1",
  "channelName": "3Blue1Brown", "channelId": "UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw",
  "durationSeconds": 1104, "viewCount": 18923411, "publishDate": "2017-10-05",
  "language": "en", "languageName": "English", "isAutoGenerated": false, "translatedTo": null,
  "availableLanguages": [ { "language": "en", "name": "English", "autoGenerated": false, "translatable": true }, { "language": "de", "name": "German", "autoGenerated": false } ],
  "segmentCount": 304, "wordCount": 3120,
  "text": "Here is a 28 by 28 pixel image …",
  "segments": [ { "start": 4.2, "duration": 3.1, "text": "Here is a 28 by 28 pixel image" }, … ],
  "srt": "1\n00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,300\nHere is a …"
}

Videos without captions or with a playability problem (private, age-restricted, removed) are returned with an error field (NO_CAPTIONS, NO_MATCHING_LANGUAGE, LOGIN_REQUIRED, …) and are not charged.

Input

Field	Description
`videoUrls`	Video URLs, Shorts, `youtu.be` links, embed URLs, bare IDs or playlist URLs (`…/playlist?list=…`).
`languages`	Preferred language codes in order (`en`, `de`, `es`, …). Manual captions are preferred over auto-generated ones.
`fallbackToAnyLanguage`	If no preferred language exists, use the first available track (default on).
`translateTo`	Let YouTube translate the transcript into this language (e.g. `en`).
`outputFormats`	`text`, `segments`, `srt`, `vtt` – pick any combination.
`includeMetadata`	Title, description, channel, duration, views, publish date, keywords, thumbnail, category.
`maxVideosPerPlaylist`	Cap when expanding playlists.
`concurrency`	Parallel videos (default 5).
`proxyConfiguration`	Optional. The actor runs without proxies and automatically switches to Apify residential proxy only for videos where YouTube asks for a sign-in.

Use cases

AI / LLM pipelines – summarize, translate, answer questions over video content, build RAG knowledge bases from channels and playlists.
Content repurposing – turn videos into blog posts, newsletters, social posts, show notes.
Research & monitoring – keyword search across transcripts, sentiment, competitor content analysis.
Accessibility & localization – SRT/VTT subtitle files in the original or translated language.

Pricing

$0.003 per transcript returned. Videos without transcript are free.

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Run on schedule or via API/SDK; export JSON, CSV, Excel; connect to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex; use as an MCP tool from Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT.

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