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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Extract the full transcript (captions / subtitles) of any YouTube video as clean, ready-to-use text — with optional timestamps.

Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 transcripts

Rating

5.0

(4)

Developer

Santhej Kallada

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YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions & Subtitles to Text

Extract the full transcript (captions / subtitles) of any YouTube video as clean, ready-to-use text — with optional timestamps. Works with manually-created and auto-generated captions in any language. No API key, no login.

Perfect for feeding videos into LLMs/RAG, summarization, translation, content repurposing, SEO, and research at scale.

Features

Accepts video URLs or IDs — watch, youtu.be, shorts, and embed links all work.
Clean full-text transcript plus rich metadata (title, channel, duration, views, language).
Optional timestamped segments (start, dur, text) for subtitle/SRT-style use.
Prefer human captions over auto-generated when both exist.
Bulk: pass hundreds of videos in one run.
Residential proxy support to avoid IP blocks.
Fair pricing — you only pay for transcripts actually returned. Videos without captions are returned (so you know) but never charged.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`videos`	array	YouTube URLs or 11-char IDs, one per line. Required.
`language`	string	Preferred caption language code (`en`, `es`, `fr`…). Falls back to best available.
`preferManualCaptions`	boolean	Prefer human captions over auto-generated. Default `true`.
`includeTimestamps`	boolean	Also output a `segments` array per video. Default `false`.
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Residential proxy recommended.

Example input

{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "preferManualCaptions": true,
  "includeTimestamps": false
}

Output

One record per video:

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "…",
  "channel": "…",
  "duration_seconds": 213,
  "view_count": 1600000000,
  "language": "en",
  "is_auto_generated": false,
  "has_transcript": true,
  "word_count": 410,
  "transcript_text": "We're no strangers to love …"
}

With includeTimestamps: true, each record also includes:

"segments": [{ "start": 18.2, "dur": 3.4, "text": "We're no strangers to love" }]

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a tiny start fee plus a flat fee per transcript returned. Videos with no captions are not charged.

Notes

Some videos genuinely have no captions — those come back with has_transcript: false and a reason in error.
Age-restricted or region-locked videos may be unavailable; the reason is reported per video.

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