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Convert a YouTube video to a text transcript
Paste one or more YouTube links and get the spoken words as plain text plus timestamped segments. Uses the video's manual captions when they exist and falls back to auto-generated ones. No YouTube API key or quota needed – just the URLs.
YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlistspulsedata/youtube-transcript-scraper
Video ID
Title
Channel
Duration (s)
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Input
YouTube video / playlist URLs(required):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk
Preferred languages:en
Output formats:text+1
Output fields
Video ID
Title
Channel
Duration (s)
Language
Auto
Segments
Transcript
URL
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlists.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
