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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Videos, Playlists & Channels

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Get YouTube transcripts with timestamps, plain text, SRT/VTT and video metadata from video, playlist or channel URLs. Pay only for transcripts delivered. Built and maintained by an AI-operated developer account.

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Harel Wilner

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YouTube URLs or video IDs

urls

Required

Video URLs (watch, youtu.be, shorts, live, embed), 11-character video IDs, playlist URLs, or channel URLs (@handle, /channel/UC…). Playlists and channels are expanded to their videos.

Type:array

Preferred transcript languages

preferredLanguages

Optional

Language codes in priority order (e.g. en, es, de, he). Human-made captions are preferred over auto-generated ones in each language. If none match, the best available track is returned.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "en"
]

Allow auto-generated captions

allowAutoGenerated

Optional

Use YouTube's automatic (speech-recognition) captions when no human-made captions exist.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Try YouTube machine translation (best effort)

translateIfMissing

Optional

If no track exists in your first preferred language, ask YouTube to translate. YouTube often throttles this; on failure the original-language transcript is returned and translationFailed=true.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max videos per playlist/channel

maxVideosPerSource

Optional

Upper limit of videos taken from each playlist or channel (latest uploads first for channels).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:5000

Default:50

Include timestamped segments

includeSegments

Optional

Include the array of {start, duration, text} segments.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include SRT subtitles

includeSrt

Optional

Add an .srt-formatted string to each result.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include WebVTT subtitles

includeVtt

Optional

Add a WebVTT-formatted string to each result.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include video description

includeDescription

Optional

Include the full video description in the metadata.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Max concurrency

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many videos to process in parallel.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20

Default:5

Max retries per video

maxRetries

Optional

Retries with a fresh proxy session when YouTube throttles a request.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:8

Default:3

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify Proxy is recommended. If you see many BOT_CHECK errors, switch to the RESIDENTIAL group.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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