YouTube Transcript API — Captions to JSON + LLM

YouTube Transcript Scraper

apihq/youtube-transcript-scraper

Scrape YouTube transcripts, captions, and subtitles as clean timestamped JSON. No YouTube Data API key or quota, no browser. One video or batch up to 50. Returns caption segments plus video metadata and languages. Pay only for successful transcripts at $3 per 1,000; failed videos never charge.

Download clean transcripts from any YouTube video URL — manual or auto-generated, in any language. Batch input, high concurrency, ready for LLM context windows and RAG pipelines.

50 job listings free on every run. Get every open job from any company's own careers page. Reads official ATS APIs directly: Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Rippling, Breezy, Personio, BambooHR - no cookies, no proxies. Clean rows: title, location, department, date.

Completely free - no charge per transcript, ever. Clean timestamped transcripts from any YouTube video: watch links, youtu.be, Shorts, embeds or bare IDs. Reads YouTube's own first-party player endpoint - no API key, no cookies. Full text, per-line segments, language, word count.

Extract video transcripts + metadata from YouTube, Vimeo, TED & 1000+ sites that publish captions, in any language. JSON + LLM-ready Markdown + RAG chunks. No API key. Pay per result. (TikTok/X limited.)

YouTube Transcript Scraper — Never Silent, LLM-Ready

catalini82/youtube-transcript-scraper

Public YouTube transcript scraper with full batch accounting: every input returns a transcript or a typed, actionable failure — the run is never silent. Supports direct videos plus playlist/channel expansion, caption-availability auditing, and LLM-ready output as JSON, text, SRT, WebVTT, or chunks.

YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API

johnvc/YoutubeTranscripts

Scrape YouTube transcripts, subtitles, and captions in bulk, the cheapest pay-per-video YouTube transcript API on Apify. Callable from any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT). Supports YouTube videos, Shorts, and every URL format.

YouTube Transcript API - RAG Chapters, Summary & Chunks

webdatalabs/youtube-transcript-rag

Turn any YouTube video, playlist, or channel into RAG-ready data: clean transcript, timestamped segments, AI chapters, summary, key quotes, and embeddings-ready chunks. Built for AI agents and RAG pipelines.

YouTube Transcript & Subtitle Scraper API — Captions + Metadata

herus13/youtube-transcript-scraper

Extract YouTube transcripts, subtitles, and captions with timestamps plus video metadata (title, channel, views, duration). For RAG, analysis, and content workflows. No official API key needed.

YouTube Transcript Scraper API | Captions & Subtitles

thescrapelab/Apify-YouTube-Transcript-Scraper-2-0

Extract YouTube transcripts, captions, subtitles, and timestamped transcript segments from YouTube URLs, Shorts, or video IDs. No YouTube API key required. Residential proxy enabled. Use from Apify Console or API.