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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.

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YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlists
YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlistspulsedata/youtube-transcript-scraper
Video ID
Title
Channel
Duration (s)
+5 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

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

How it works

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.

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