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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Get the spoken transcript of any YouTube video by URL, by channel, or by keyword search. No API key, no login. Falls back to any available language instead of failing when there is no English one, prefers human-written captions, and says why when a video has none. Full text plus timed segments.

Pricing

$2.99 / 1,000 transcripts

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Developer

Quiet Harvest

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Videos

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Video URLs

videoUrls

Optional

YouTube video links. Watch links, Shorts links, youtu.be links and bare 11-character video IDs all work.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Channels

channelUrls

Optional

Transcribe a channel's latest videos. Handles work with or without the @, and full channel URLs are accepted.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Keywords

keywords

Optional

Search YouTube and transcribe what comes back. Useful when you want the conversation on a topic rather than a specific channel.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Max videos per channel / keyword

maxVideosPerSource

Optional

Applies to channels and keywords. Video URLs you list explicitly are always all transcribed.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:10

Preferred languages

languages

Optional

Tried in order. A video with none of them still returns whatever transcript it has, preferring a human-written one over an auto-generated one — so you get a result instead of an error.

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "en"
]

Include timed segments

includeSegments

Optional

Keep the line-by-line transcript with start times and durations. Turn off for full text only, which makes the dataset much smaller.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Subtitle files

subtitleFormats

Optional

Also return the transcript as a ready-to-use subtitle file, so you do not have to convert the timings yourself.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Translate to

translateTo

Optional

Translate the transcript into another language. Timings are kept, so you also get translated SRT/VTT if you asked for subtitle files. Leave empty to skip.

Type:string

Default:

Options:

afarbnbgmycazh-CNzh-TWhrcsdanlenetfilfifrdeelguhehihuiditjaknkolvltmsmlmrnenofaplptparorusrsiskslesswsvtatethtrukurvi

Skip Shorts

skipShorts

Optional

Most Shorts have captions switched off by their uploader. Skipping them raises the share of videos that come back with a transcript.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include video details

includeVideoDetails

Optional

On by default. Adds the video's exact publish time, like count, view count, full description, duration, channel ID, subscriber count and the list of languages its captions are available in. Costs one extra request per video.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Exact comment count

exactCommentCount

Optional

Off by default. The video page only shows a rounded count like 4.2K; turning this on fetches the exact number (4,296) at the cost of one extra request per video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Residential is the default and recommended: YouTube rate-limits repeated requests from one IP.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ]
}

Concurrency

concurrency

Optional

How many videos to fetch at once.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:8

Default:4

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