# Scrape Archive.org transcripts by year range

**Use case:** 

Filter captioned items to a year range via Lucene — item_title, transcript, downloads, item_url. Time-scoped dataset, export-ready.

## Input

```json
{
  "itemUrls": [
    "https://archive.org/details/his_girl_friday",
    "https://archive.org/details/Doctorin1946",
    "HealthYo1953"
  ],
  "searchQuery": "mediatype:movies AND year:[1940 TO 1959]",
  "includeAutoGenerated": true,
  "transcriptFormats": [
    "txt"
  ],
  "maxItems": 25,
  "maxCaptionFilesPerItem": 5,
  "monitorMode": false,
  "alertOnNewItem": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "requestConcurrency": 5,
  "diagnose": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "item_title": {
    "label": "Item",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "identifier": {
    "label": "Identifier",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "caption_lang_code": {
    "label": "Lang",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "caption_format": {
    "label": "Format",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "cue_count": {
    "label": "Cues",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "transcript": {
    "label": "Transcript",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "item_url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Archive.org Subtitle & Transcript Scraper — TXT, SRT & VTT](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/archive-transcript-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/archive-transcript-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.