Youtube Transcript Scraper

What does YouTube Transcript Scraper do?

The YouTube Transcript Scraper helps you pull transcripts directly from YouTube videos without the headache of manual typing. Instead of spending hours replaying and pausing clips, you paste a video link, and the scraper delivers the text in seconds.

It works across multiple languages, supports bulk video processing, and even includes smart proxy management to reduce errors and restrictions. Whether you need plain text, JSON, or timestamped captions, the scraper gives you structured outputs you can actually use.

Think of it as a time-saving assistant for creators, researchers, agencies, and educators. From building subtitles to analyzing video content, the YouTube Transcript Scraper turns unstructured video into usable text — quickly, accurately, and at scale.

What YouTube Transcript Scraper can I extract?

With the YouTube Transcript Scraper, you’re not limited to just the spoken words. It can pull a wide range of video details, transcripts, and metadata to give you a complete snapshot of any YouTube video.

Here’s a breakdown of what you can extract:

Data Type	Details Extracted
Transcript	Full video transcript in plain text, JSON, or XML. With or without timestamps.
Video Details	Title, description, post date, channel name, subscriber count, and video URL.
Engagement Metrics	Views, likes, dislikes, and sometimes comment counts for deeper audience insights.
Metadata	Tags, categories, chapters, hashtags, and video keywords.
Bulk Processing	Extract data from multiple videos or playlists at once, saving hours of manual work.
Multi-language Support	Pull transcripts in the original language or auto-translated versions.

The beauty here is accuracy and scale. You can analyze a single video or scrape an entire channel’s library, all while keeping the data structured for quick use in your research, content strategy, or reporting.

Key Features of YouTube Transcript Scraper

The YouTube Transcript Scraper comes packed with features that make transcript extraction simple, reliable, and scalable. Instead of dealing with manual transcriptions or limited built-in options, this scraper gives you full control over how you collect and use video data.

Here are the standout features:

• Transcript Extraction: Pull full transcripts from YouTube videos with or without timestamps.

• Bulk Processing: Handle multiple video URLs or entire playlists in one run.

• Multi-language Support: Extract transcripts in the original or auto-translated language.

• Flexible Output: Choose between plain text, JSON, XML, or structured arrays for easier integration.

• Metadata Collection: Capture titles, descriptions, views, post dates, and engagement metrics.

• Proxy Management: Smart proxies ensure smoother runs and reduce errors or restrictions.

• Custom Options: Decide how your transcripts appear — clean text only or with detailed time markers.

This makes it a powerful tool for creators, researchers, and developers who need quick, accurate, and reusable video data.

How to use YouTube Transcript Scraper

Using the YouTube Transcript Scraper is straightforward. You don’t need to be highly technical to get started — just follow a few simple steps and you’ll have clean transcripts in minutes.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Log in to Apify – Create a free account or sign in.

2. Select the Actor – Search for “YouTube Transcript Scraper” in the Apify store.

3. Enter Input Data – Paste your YouTube video URL(s) into the startUrls field.

4. Choose Options – Decide if you want timestamps or plain text.

5. Run the Actor – Hit start, and the scraper will extract the transcript automatically.

6. Download Results – Export your transcript in JSON, CSV, XML, or plain text format.

Input

{
    "includeEnglishAG": true,
    "includeNonEnglish": false,
    "outputFormat": "timestamp",
    "urls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbrxIpQgkM"
    ]
}

Output Example 1:

{
    "id": "4KbrxIpQgkM",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbrxIpQgkM",
    "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbrxIpQgkM",
    "transcripts": [
      {
        "language": "English",
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            "startTime": "0:00",
            "text": "(funky upbeat music)"
          },
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            "startTime": "0:18",
            "text": "- This is the Nothing Phone 3"
          },
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            "startTime": "0:21",
            "text": "and yeah, it's ugly."
          },
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            "startTime": "0:23",
            "text": "(funky music)"
          },
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            "startTime": "0:26",
            "text": "You know, people say beauty is in the eye"
          },
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            "endMs": 29700,
            "startTime": "0:27",
            "text": "of the beholder and stuff like that."
          },
          {
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            "startTime": "0:29",
            "text": "I get it. You can find\nbeauty in anything, for sure."
          },
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            "startTime": "0:32",
            "text": "But also, you know,\nthere's a nice alignment"
          },
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            "startTime": "0:35",
            "text": "to things that feels good."
          },
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            "startTime": "0:37",
            "text": "And you know, when things are,"
          },
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            "startTime": "0:39",
            "text": "when things are where\nyou expect them to be,"
          },
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            "startTime": "0:45",
            "text": "doesn't that feel better?"
          },
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            "startTime": "15:29",
            "text": "Thanks for watching. Catch you guys in"
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            "startTime": "15:31",
            "text": "the next one. Peace."
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            "startTime": "15:34",
            "text": "[Music]"
          }
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  }
]

Output Example 2:

{
    "id": "4KbrxIpQgkM",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbrxIpQgkM",
    "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbrxIpQgkM",
    "transcripts": [
      {
        "language": "English",
        "content": "(funky upbeat music) - This is the Nothing Phone 3 and yeah, it's ugly. (funky music) You know, people say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and stuff like that. I get it. You can find\nbeauty in anything, for sure. But also, you know,\nthere's a nice alignment to things that feels good. And you know, when things are, when things are where\nyou expect them to be, doesn't that feel better? Okay. All right, carcinisation. I learned about this recently. This is a strange and\nodd but funny phenomenon and evolutionary biology where a bunch of undersea crustaceans have\nall slowly evolved towards the same, flat, robust, crab-like shape because it seems to be\nthe ideal form factor for surviving in the ocean. Oversimplified, it feels\nlike everything down there is evolving towards a crab. And look at all these crabs, lots of smartphones today\nbasically look the same. So when something that comes\nalong looks a little different, well it's gonna feel weird, isn't it? But hey, maybe someone's\ninto the layered glass look with the text in various places. Maybe you're into the\nred dot turning into a functional record light. Maybe you're into a bit of a lobster. Real talk though, it feels\nlike every few months Nothing comes out with a new\nproduct that looks crazy and people hate on all the pictures on the internet 'cause they look weird. And then two months later\nwe're all used to it and we forget about the looks and we can focus on the product itself. So let's just skip all that\nand focus on the product. This is what Nothing is calling\ntheir first true flagship, which is what you would\nsay if you're Nothing and you're charging $799 for a\nphone for the first time ever after rolling around in the budget and mid-range space for a few years. But I've been using this\nphone for the better part of the last week and I'm gonna disagree with the whole premise here actually. This is no more of a\nflagship phone than any of Nothing's previous phones. Now are they lying to us? Eh, not exactly but kind of. Hear me out. 799 is the same price\nas a Samsung Galaxy S25 or the Pixel 9, or right\nunderneath the iPhone 16. Like they're competing against\nbonafide flagships from mega companies with basically unlimited money. And part of what we've come\nto expect from phones in this class is basically giving\nus the best available stuff. Like it's kind of this unspoken rule, but if you're spending\nthis much, you deserve to just get the best parts, right? That's why it's been so easy for me to rag on like the Pixel in the past for not having the best performance or the iPhone for not having\na high refresh rate display. So this Nothing Phone 3, it's certainly dressed up like a flagship and it is the most flagship\nyet of any Nothing phone. It is huge. It's got this super bright,\nhigh refresh rate, OLED display. It has a massive new\nsilicon carbon battery, new triple 50 megapixel\ncameras, IP 68 certification, up to 16 gigs of RAM. Like it's got all the makings\nof what could be a flagship. But when you peel back the\nmask, just a little bit, like right under the surface,\nit's the same exact strategy that Nothing has been running on all their previous phones in the past. The playbook is to just cut back just a little\nbit from the highest end stuff in ways that hopefully\nyou, the buyer, don't notice. And it still feels like a flagship, but that allows 'em to cut costs and undercut the competition a little bit. So it works. It's not a bad strategy. It's allowed 'em to make\ngreat phones in the past, but it's just harder to sell\nthat strategy at this price. So for starters, the chip inside, right? It's not the expensive,\nproven, powerful flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. This is running the\nSnapdragon 8s Gen 4 instead. It's one of the first phones\nwe've seen using this chip. And to be fair, it is much\nbetter than anything we've seen in any previous Nothing phone. It's a four nanometer chip, it's something like 40% better CPU and like 90% better GPU than\nthe chip in the two year-old Nothing Phone 2. The phone is zippy and smooth as hell, basically all the time. And I'll get to the software\nexperience in a second. But is it the best available?\nWell, technically no. The Snapdragon 8 Elite still smokes this. You can see benchmark\nscores, it's pretty clear that's still the flagship chip. Now you as the user\nmight never notice that. In fact you probably wouldn't\nif you just used the phone side by side in a lot of\nrandom, normal activities. But if you happen to get into\ngraphically intensive gaming or the most intense tasks,\nthat's what separates a flagship from an upper mid-range chip. So for some context, some\nother phones using this chip, the Poco F7 and the Iqoo Neo 10, both of these are sub $500 phones. I also think they were\nvery clever pairing it up with 12 gigs of RAM and\n256 gigs of storage base. It's fast Ram, it's UFS 4.0 and then the upgraded\nversion for 899 is 16 gigs of RAM and half a terabyte. Awesome to see that. But\nthere is no 8 128 version. And I think if they did make one, that would probably be\nlike 699, but they didn't. Now when we get to the outside\nof this phone, there is this, again, huge new AMOLED display. Surely it's a flagship display, right? It's gigantic. It's 6.67 inches corner to corner with perfectly even\nbezels all the way around, that takes extra work. It's a gorgeous AMOLED,\nnice color reproduction and it's also, it's a\ngood amount over 1080P. It's nice and sharp, smooth with that dynamic refresh\nrate up to 120 hertz and it gets crazy bright,\n1600 nits outdoors, 4,500 nits peak brightness with HDR. So the numbers on paper go crazy and it's just, it's such\na nice screen to look at. I've loved using it. So\nwhat's the catch, Marques? Well one, you would\nliterally never know this unless you check the spec sheet, but the glass protecting\nthe front of this display, it's Gorilla Glass 7i, and that is a mid-range\nglass in their lineup where you might see flagships\nusing the more durable Gorilla Glass Victus or Victus 2. And normally I wouldn't even bring that up but that's definitely something\nto consider on a phone that is meant to spend a\nlot of its time face down. And then another thing, there are a lot of like really nice, subtle\nthings that go into this screen. Like it has a 1,000\nhertz touch sample rate, so it's even more responsive\nthan the phone too. It also has 2160 hertz PWM dimming and it also has a very acceptable\noptical fingerprint reader down near the bottom. But it's also an LTPS display, instead of the most premium LTPO. And all that really means\nin practice is instead of varying a refresh rate\nfrom one to 120 hertz, it can go from 30 to 120 hertz. You would never notice, but\nit does mean a little bit worse power efficiency. I'll tell you what though, it\ncan actually absolutely handle the slightly worse power efficiency because the battery in\nthis phone is elite. It's marketed as a 5100\n50 milliamp power battery, but according to Nothing\nand it gets complicated but it's actually rated at a\n5,500 milliamp power battery. It's silicon carbon, it\ncharges extra fast at 65 watts. It supports wireless charging,\nreverse wireless charging, reverse wired charging. It's great. It sips power in standby and it's genuinely a two day\nphone if you want it to be, even without the more\nefficient Snapdragon 8 Elite. So honestly flagship battery for sure. So then, okay, what about the cameras? Triple 50 megapixel cameras\nfeels pretty flagship. And you know what, again, it is closer to a flagship than any previous Nothing phone has ever been, but I've used this now for a little bit. It's still a notch behind\nthe S25's and Pixel 9's and iPhone 16's of the world. The mainstream flagships\nthat I'm comparing this to. This main sensor is the\nbiggest they've ever used, one over 1.3 inches. It lets a ton more light in\nand I'm shooting with this and I realize as I'm looking through all the pictures I've taken, for some reason it's frequently soft. Like even on a perfectly normal shot, the colors will be fine,\nthe exposure will be fine, but the subject of the\nphoto when I zoom in, it should be in sharp focus\nbut it's just a little bit off. I think you can blame this\na little bit on auto focus, maybe a little bit on\ntuning for a larger sensor with shallower depth of field. It's definitely capable of good pictures and it's a little bit wider\nthan you might expect, but yeah, that's a little bit odd. Then the telephoto is 3x, also\na tiny bit soft sometimes, but also very useful. It's where your macro shots come from and you can get some really\nsick, impressive closeups and the ultra wide and the selfie cameras, they are the most consistent\nand most flagship of them all. But yeah, like I said, the whole camera setup is just one notch behind those things. And you may only notice\nif you're zooming in and pixel peeping. But again, that's the point. Mostly good enough for most\npeople, most of the time. I think with a little tuning,\nthis can be an A minus camera. I think a perfect\nencapsulation of the priorities of this phone are, I mean\nlook at, look at this design. It's an insane design but\ntechnically no camera bump. I mean the rings obviously\nprotrude a little bit, but most flagship phones at\nthis point also have some sort of big camera bump that they all sit on. It turns out to get this\nwhole big telephoto camera to not have a bump that actually\nengineered part of the PCV or the board inside to have a hole in it. So the optics could\nactually split like punch through the PCB instead of being stacked totally on top of it. I'm sure we'll see this in\nlike a JerryRigEverything tear down video at some point. But yeah, basically mission\naccomplished, no camera bump, but that also meant they had to use some smaller parts to make it work. And this is actually a\nphysically smaller telephoto than the cheaper Nothing Phone 3a Pro. So spoiler, the design\nis still the priority of this phone, always has been. But let's talk about the\nmost controversial bit of this design, which is the glyphs, which made Nothing Phones famous for a couple years. This year, the glyph lights are gone and replacing them is this\nsmall display on the back upper corner of the phone. It's 489 LED pixels. They're calling it Glyph Matrix. On its face, this has\nsome usefulness about it, but then it's also surrounded by gimmicks. Okay, so the basic idea is\nlike your phone is face down and then the lights on\nthe back would light up and you could tell something\nabout what that notification is to decide if you wanna actually\npick it up and check or not. So if that is all you're after, then okay, success, you know, more\npixels means more information. The new essential\nnotifications builder is super powerful and informative. It's better than ever before. I can set up a certain\nicon to come up in the dots whenever I get a certain\ntype of notification or anything from a certain person or from a certain app. Let's say I wanna be able\nto leave my phone face down, but I never wanna miss any\nnotifications from Mom, ever. Okay, set that up. No matter what she sends,\nno matter how she sends it, I will get an icon or a\npicture from my gallery or something that it can\nturn into dots and done. Anytime mom calls or texts or whatever, I can't see what they said, but I can see that she sent me something. So that's convenient, that's functional. Outside of that, it immediately starts feeling\nway more gimmicky, like, okay, take another look at the back\nof this phone, you see a, you see this little dot\nhere hidden in this design? This little circle is actually\na pressure sensitive area. And when you press that,\nthe back display lights up and then you can use a\nsingle press to cycle through these glyph toys and then a long press to\nactually engage with them. So you can cycle to a timer and then start a timer on\nthe back of your phone, which doesn't sync up\nwith the actual clock app. So if you turn your phone\nscreen on the timer disappears. So be careful. You can also use the back display as a viewfinder for your\nmain camera kind of, or you can play spin the bottle. Maybe you're into that. Maybe you and your friends\ndon't have a bottle handy, but you have your Nothing phone. Or you can play Rock, Paper, Scissors against your own phone. I think you get the idea. They're fun tech demos, but the\nutility runs out real quick. Now they have opened up the API. So developers, if they want to, can make more stuff for the back screen. I, you know, with this\nphone, I don't really know how many actually will, like, is Spotify gonna make like album art, cover art on the back of the phone here? I don't know. But the Nothing community has\nalready started developing some stuff and messing with it. They've made this one.\nThis is a magic eight ball. So instead of turning your phone over and asking Google for a magic eight ball, you can ask the back of your phone and it'll give you a little message. Cool. Look, the real best part of a Nothing phone is still\nthe software on the front of the phone because Nothing OS 3.5, soon to be updated to\n4.0, it's just great. Like they have this tastefully modified version of Android with\nthis nice aesthetic, finely-tuned, smooth performance and a handful of useful features that they just sort of sprinkle in there. So you can sort of choose\nwhich ones you want to use or easily ignore. The AI-powered essential\nspace continues to evolve and get more features, though it doesn't sync with anything externally. So I don't use it. And yes, there's still a custom button for it on the side of the phone, but it's not too in-your-face. You can ignore it if\nyou don't wanna use it. And the little things like being able to resize the quick settings toggles or the way you can swipe up\non the camera app to flip through presets, which is so clean. Everything is, it's clean,\nit's smoothly animated and the whole OS is responsive in ways that feel higher end than\nthe specs would ever suggest. I think the best new\nfeature on this phone is the universal search box. So you might actually\nkind of get it confused 'cause there's a permanent\nGoogle search box on the bottom of the home screen at all times. Not that search box, but when you pull up the\napp drawer, that search box. Now, that one searches through\nyour stuff on your phone, like usual, or you can ask it a question and hit that AI button and it'll use a modified\nversion of Gemini to go online and pull up a short and\nsweet answer for you. It's tuned to kind of just be brief and give you answers to stuff. It's nice. And again, you can choose to use it or just never even try. You can just leave it tucked away and it's just, you can use\nit the way you normally do and just search for\nyour apps on your phone. And this is also gonna get updates. They are gonna do, they're\npromising five years of major software updates. I could do the nitpicky thing and be like, oh, Samsung's\ndoing seven years and Apple does even more. So it's not quite a flagship, but you've seen how flagships kind of vary all over the board. So I'm giving them flagship\ncredit for the software. So at the end of the day, is the title of this review a little dramatic maybe? Sure. But flagship, the word flagship\nis being used here heavily as a marketing term. And so maybe the review title should just been Nothing Phone 3, They Did Marketing, whatever. But the point is, it still stands. They're charging 799 for this phone and there are other really good phones that you can get for that much money. So this phone, just like previous\nNothing Phones is the one that you would get if you really care, not so much about raw specs,\nbut about good software and a unique design. You don't want another\ncrab, you want lobster. Thanks for watching. Catch\nyou guys the next one. Peace. (funky upbeat music)"
      },
      {
        "language": "English (auto-generated)",
        "content": "[Applause] [Music] [Music] This is the Nothing Phone 3. And yeah, it's ugly. You know, people say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and stuff like that. I get it. You can find beauty in anything for sure. But also, you know, there's a nice alignment to things that feels good. And you know, when things are when things are where you expect them to be, doesn't that feel better? Okay. All right. Carsonization. I learned about this recently. This is a strange and odd but funny phenomenon in evolutionary biology where a bunch of undersea crustations have all slowly evolved towards the same flat robust crablike shape because it seems to be the ideal form factor for surviving in the ocean. Oversimplified. It feels like everything down there is evolving towards a crab. And look at all these crabs. Lots of smartphones today basically look the same. So when something that comes along looks a little different, well it's going to feel weird. isn't it? But hey, maybe someone's into the layered glass look with the text in various places. Maybe you're into the red dot turning into a functional record light. Maybe you're into a bit of a lobster. Real talk though, it feels like every few months nothing comes out with a new product that looks crazy and people hate on all the pictures on the internet cuz they look weird and then two months later we're all used to it and we forget about the looks and we can focus on the product itself. So, let's just skip all that and focus on the product. This is what Nothing is calling their first true flagship, which is what you would say if you're Nothing and you're charging $799 for a phone for the first time ever after rolling around in the budget and mid-range space for a few years. But I've been using this phone for the better part of the last week. And I'm going to disagree with the whole premise here. Actually, this is no more of a flagship phone than any of Nothing's previous phones. Now, are they lying to us? Yeah, not exactly, but kind of. Hear me out. $799 is the same price as a Samsung Galaxy S25 or the Pixel 9 or right underneath the iPhone 16. Like, they are competing against bonafide flagships from mega companies with basically unlimited money. And part of what we've come to expect from phones in this class is basically giving us the best available stuff. Like it's kind of this unspoken rule, but if you're spending this much, you deserve to just get the best parts, right? That's why it's been so easy for me to rag on like the Pixel in the past for not having the best performance or the iPhone for not having a high refresh rate display. So, this Nothing Phone 3, it's certainly dressed up like a flagship, and it is the most flagship yet of any Nothing Phone. It is huge. It's got this super bright, high refresh rate OLED display. It has a massive new silicon carbon battery, new triple 50 megapixel cameras, IP68 certification, up to 16 gigs of RAM. Like, it's got all the makings of what could be a flagship. But when you peel back the mask just a little bit, like right under the surface, it's the same exact strategy that nothing has been running on all their previous phones in the past. The playbook is to just cut back just a little bit from the highest end stuff in ways that hopefully you, the buyer, don't notice. and it still feels like a flagship, but that allows them to cut costs and undercut the competition a little bit. So, it works. It's not a bad strategy. It's allowed them to make great phones in the past, but it's just harder to sell that strategy at this price. So, for starters, the chip inside, right, it's not the expensive, proven, powerful flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. This is running the Snapdragon 8S Gen 4 instead. It's one of the first phones we've seen using this chip. And to be fair, it is much better than anything we've seen in any previous Nothing Phone. It's a 4nmter chip. It's something like 40% better CPU and like 90% better GPU than the chip in the 2-year-old Nothing Phone 2. The phone is zippy and smooth as hell basically all the time. And I'll get to the software experience in a second, but is it the best available? Well, technically no. The Snapdragon 8 Elite still smokes this. You can see benchmark scores. It's pretty clear that's still the flagship chip. Now, you as a user might never notice that. In fact, you probably wouldn't if you just use the phone side by side in a lot of random normal activities. But if you happen to get into graphically intensive gaming or the most intense tasks, that's what separates a flagship from an upper mid-range chip. So, for some context, some other phones using this chip, the Poco F7 and the IQ Neo 10. Both of these are sub $500 phones. I also think they were very clever pairing it up with 12 gigs of RAM and 256 gigs of storage base. It's fast RAM. It's UFS 4.0. And then the upgraded version for $8.99 is 16 gigs of RAM and half a terabyte. Awesome to see that. But there is no 8128 version. And I think if they did make one that would probably be like $6.99, but they didn't. Now when we get to the outside of this phone, there is this again huge new AMOLED display. Surely it's a flagship display, right? It's gigantic. 6.67 in corner to corner with perfectly even bezels all the way around. That takes extra work. It's a gorgeous AMOLED. Nice color reproduction. And it's also it's a good amount over 1080p. It's nice and sharp, smooth with that dynamic refresh rate up to 120 hertz. And it gets crazy bright, 1,600 nits outdoors, 4500 nits peak brightness with HDR. So the numbers on paper go crazy. And it's just it's such a nice screen to look at. I've loved using it. So, what's the catch, Marquez? Well, one, you would literally never know this unless you check the spec sheet, but the glass protecting the front of this display. It's Gorilla Glass 7i, and that is a mid-range glass in their lineup where you might see flagships using the more durable Gorilla Glass Victus or Victus 2. And normally, I wouldn't even bring that up, but that's definitely something to consider on a phone that is meant to spend a lot of its time face down. And then another thing, there are a lot of like really nice subtle things that go into this screen. like it has a 1000Hz touch sample rate, so it's even more responsive than the phone 2. It also has 2160 Hz PWM dimming. It also has a very acceptable optical fingerprint reader down near the bottom, but it's also an LTPS display instead of the most premium LTPO. And all that really means in practice is instead of varying the refresh rate from 1 to 120 Hz, it can go from 30 to 120 Hz. You would never notice, but it does mean a little bit worse power efficiency. I'll tell you what though, it can actually absolutely handle the slightly worse power efficiency because the battery in this phone is elite. It's marketed as a 5150 mAh battery, but according to nothing, and it gets complicated, but it's actually rated at a 5,500 mAh battery. It's silicon carbon. It charges extra fast at 65 watts. It supports wireless charging, reverse wireless charging, reverse wired charging. It's great. It sips power in standby. And it's genuinely a two-day phone if you want it to be, even without the more efficient Snapdragon 8 Elite. So honestly, flagship battery for sure. So then, okay, what about the cameras? Triple 50 megapixel cameras. Feels pretty flagship. And you know what? Again, it is closer to a flagship than any previous Nothing phone has ever been, but I've used this now for a little bit. It's still a notch behind the S25s and Pixel 9's and iPhone 16s of the world. The mainstream flagships that I'm comparing this to. This main sensor is the biggest they've ever used. One over 1.3 inches. It lets a ton more light in. And I'm shooting with this and I realized as I'm looking through all the pictures I've taken, for some reason, it's frequently soft. Like even on a perfectly normal shot, the colors will be fine, the exposure will be fine, but the subject of the photo when I zoom in, it should be in sharp focus, but it's just a little bit off. I think you can blame this a little bit on autofocus, maybe a little bit on tuning for a larger sensor with shallower depth of field. It's definitely capable of good pictures and it's a little bit wider than you might expect, but yeah, that's a little bit odd. Then the telephoto is 3x, also a tiny bit soft sometimes, but also very useful. It's where your macro shots come from, and you can get some really sick, impressive close-ups. And the ultrawide and the selfie cameras, they are the most consistent and most flagship of them all. But yeah, like I said, the whole camera setup is just one notch behind those things, and you may only notice if you're zooming in and pixel peeping. But again, that's the point. Mostly good enough for most people most of the time. I think with a little tuning, this can be an A minus camera. I think a perfect encapsulation of the priorities of this phone are, I mean, look at look at this design. It's an insane design, but technically no camera bump. I mean, the rings obviously protrude a little bit, but most flagship phones at this point also have some sort of big camera bump that they all sit on. It turns out to get this whole big telephoto camera to not have a bump, they actually engineered part of the PCB or the board inside to have a hole in it so the optics could actually split like punch through the PCB instead of being stacked totally on top of it. I'm sure we'll see this in like a Jerry rig everything tear down video at some point, but yeah, basically mission accomplished. no camera bump, but that also meant they had to use some smaller parts to make it work. And this is actually a physically smaller telephoto than the cheaper Nothing Phone 3a Pro. So, spoiler, the design is still the priority of this phone. Always has been. Uh, but let's talk about the most controversial bit of this design, which is the glyphs, which made Nothing Phones famous for a couple years. This year, the glyph lights are gone and replacing them is this small display on the back upper corner of the phone. It's 489 LED pixels. They're calling it glyph matrix. On its face, this has some usefulness about it, but then it's also surrounded by gimmicks. Okay, so the basic idea is like your phone is face down and then the lights on the back would light up and you could tell something about what that notification is to decide if you want to actually pick it up and check or not. So if that is all you're after, then okay, success. You know, more pixels means more information. The new essential notifications builder is super powerful and informative. It's better than ever before. I can set up a certain icon to come up in the dots whenever I get a certain type of notification or anything from a certain person or from a certain app. Let's say I want to be able to leave my phone face down, but I never want to miss any notifications from mom ever. Okay, set that up. No matter what she sends, no matter how she sends it, I will get an icon or a picture from my gallery or something that I can turn into dots and done. anytime mom calls or texts or whatever, I can't see what they said, but I can see that she sent me something. So, that's convenient. That's functional. Outside of that, it immediately starts feeling way more gimmicky, like, okay, take another look at the back of this phone. You see a you see this little dot here hidden in this design. This little circle is actually a pressure sensitive area. And when you press that, the back display lights up. And then you can use a single press to cycle through these glyph toys and then a long press to actually engage with them. So you can cycle to a timer and then start a timer on the back of your phone which doesn't sync up with the actual clock app. So if you turn your phone screen on, the timer disappears. So be careful. Uh you can also use the back display as a viewfinder for your main camera kind of. Or or you can play spin the bottle. Maybe you're into that. Maybe you and your friends don't have a bottle handy, but you have your nothing phone. Or you can play rock, paper, scissors against your own phone. I I I think you get the idea. The It's a They're fun tech demos, but the utility runs out real quick. Now, they have opened up the API so developers, if they want to can make more stuff for the back screen. You know, with this phone, I don't really know how many actually will. Like is Spotify going to make like album art cover art on the back of the phone here? I I don't know. But the Nothing community has already started developing some stuff and messing with it. They've made this one. This is a magic eightball. So instead of turning your phone over and asking Google for a magic eightball, you can ask the back of your phone and it'll give you a little message. Cool. Look, the real best part of a Nothing phone is still the software on the front of the phone because Nothing OS 3.5, soon to be updated to 4.0, it's just great. Like, they have this tastefully modified version of Android with this nice aesthetic, finely tuned, smooth performance, and a handful of useful features that they just sort of sprinkle in there so you can sort of choose which ones you want to use or easily ignore. The AI powered essential space continues to evolve and get more features, though it doesn't sync with anything externally, so I don't use it. And yes, there's still a custom button for it on the side of the phone, but it's not too in your face. You can ignore it if you don't want to use it. And the little things like being able to resize the quick settings toggles or the way you can swipe up on the camera app to flip through presets. It's just so clean. Everything is it's clean. It's smoothly animated and the whole OS is responsive in ways that feel higherend than the specs would ever suggest. I think the best new feature on this phone is the universal search box. So, you might actually kind of get it confused because there's a permanent uh Google search box on the bottom of the home screen at all times. Not that search box, but when you pull up the app drawer, that search box. Now, that one searches through your stuff on your phone like usual. Or you can ask it a question and hit that AI button and it'll use a modified version of Gemini to go online and pull up a short and sweet answer for you. It's tuned to kind of just be brief and give you answers to stuff. It's nice. Again, you can choose to use it or just never even try. You can just leave it tucked away and it's just you can use it the way you normally do and just search for your apps on your phone. And this is also going to get updates. They are going to do they're promising five years of major software updates. I could do the nitpicky thing and be like, \"Oh, Samsung's doing seven years and Apple does even more, so it's not quite a flagship.\" But you've seen how flagships kind of vary all over the board. So, I'm giving them flagship credit for the software. So, at the end of the day, is the title of this review a little dramatic, maybe? Sure. Uh, but flagship, the word flagship is being used here as a marketing term. And so maybe the review title should just been nothing phone 3. They did marketing, whatever. But the point is it still stands. They are charging $7.99 for this phone. And there are other really good phones that you can get for that much money. So this phone, just like previous Nothing phones, is the one that you would get if you really care not so much about raw specs, but about good software and a unique design. You don't want another crab. You want lobster. Thanks for watching. Catch you guys in the next one. Peace. [Music]"
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🎯 Use Cases of YouTube Transcript Scraper

The YouTube Transcript Scraper isn’t just for pulling words out of videos — it opens doors for different kinds of work. From content creation to research, it gives you ready-to-use text that saves hours of manual effort.

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