🎬 Vimeo Video Transcript & Caption Scraper

Get any public Vimeo video's captions as a transcript — no login, no AI transcription. This actor reads the video's own caption tracks: full transcript text, timestamped segments, and SRT/VTT, plus title, owner, and duration. Pass video URLs or a page that links Vimeo videos.

It reads existing captions, so there's no speech-to-text compute — fast and cheap.

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What does it do?

For each Vimeo video (by URL/ID or harvested from a page) it returns:

• 📝 Full transcript (plain text) — always included
• ⏲️ Timestamped segments — {start, end, text}
• 🎬 SRT / VTT subtitles
• 🏷️ Title, owner, duration, available languages

No ASR, no API key — it reads the video's caption tracks (uploaded by the owner, or auto-generated by Vimeo).

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What data does it extract?

For every video: video_id, url, title, owner, owner_url, duration_sec, language, caption_auto_generated, available_languages[], transcript, segments[], srt, vtt, segment_count, scraped_at.

caption_auto_generated is true when the transcript comes from Vimeo's own auto-generated captions (language codes like en-x-autogen) rather than a track the uploader added. When both exist for the chosen language, the uploader's track is used.

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Who is it for?

• 🎥 Creators & agencies repurposing Vimeo videos into text and subtitles.
• ♿ Accessibility / localization teams pulling captions.
• 🤖 AI / RAG builders turning hosted video into searchable content.

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How to use it (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Paste video URLs/IDs — or a page URL that links Vimeo videos.
3. (Optional) set a language and extra formats (srt, vtt, segments).
4. Click Start, open the Dataset tab to view/export.

Quick start

{ "videoUrls": ["https://vimeo.com/76979871"], "transcriptFormats": ["txt", "srt"] }

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Input

Field	What it does
videoUrls	Vimeo video URLs / IDs
pageUrl	a page linking Vimeo videos to harvest IDs from
language	caption language (or auto)
transcriptFormats	txt · segments · srt · vtt
maxVideos	hard cap per run — protects against a runaway bill (default 50; 0 = unlimited)
proxyConfiguration, requestConcurrency	optional fallback proxy (Vimeo is called directly first) + parallelism

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Output

Each video is one dataset record (fields above). Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or fetch via the Apify API. Videos that are embed-restricted or have no captions are returned with a note (not faked).

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How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event, with no transcription compute — and you're charged only for videos that actually return a transcript. Videos with no captions or that are privacy-restricted are still delivered so you can see what failed, but they're free.

Event	What it covers
lot-scraped	each video that returns a transcript (one charge per transcript)

(The per-event price is set on the actor's pricing page.)

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How does it work without AI transcription?

Vimeo's player configuration lists each video's caption tracks (.vtt files — uploaded by the owner, or auto-generated by Vimeo). This actor reads those caption tracks — it does not run speech-to-text, so there's no GPU/compute cost. A transcript exists only if the video has a caption track; privacy-restricted videos are reported as unavailable.

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Is it legal to scrape Vimeo captions?

This actor reads publicly embeddable Vimeo videos' own caption tracks. The video content is copyrighted by its owner. Scraping public data is generally legal, but you are responsible for your use — review Vimeo's and the publisher's terms; don't redistribute captions you're not licensed to.

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FAQ

Why do some videos return no transcript? Either the video is privacy-restricted (reported as such), or it has no caption track at all — neither uploaded nor auto-generated by Vimeo.

Is there a Whisper/ASR step? No — it reads Vimeo's caption tracks, so it's fast and cheap.

Can I get subtitles? Yes — add srt and/or vtt to transcriptFormats.

How do I export? JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS from the Dataset tab, or via the Apify API.

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Feedback

Want multi-language pulls or showcase/channel crawling? Open an issue on the actor.