# Wistia Transcript Scraper — Captions to TXT, SRT & VTT (`scrapersdelight/wistia-transcript-scraper`) Actor

Extract any public Wistia video's transcript and captions — no login, no ASR. By hashedId or any page that embeds Wistia: full text, timestamped segments & SRT/VTT, plus title and duration, straight from Wistia's CDN. $2 per 1,000 videos.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/wistia-transcript-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Delight](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, AI, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 per record returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🎥 Wistia Video Transcript & Caption Scraper

**Get any public Wistia video's transcript — no login, no AI transcription. Wistia hosts every video on one CDN keyed by its `hashedId`, and this actor reads the video's own captions: full transcript text, timestamped segments, and SRT/VTT, plus title and duration. Pass hashedIds directly or point it at a page that embeds Wistia videos.**

Because it reads Wistia's existing captions, there's no speech-to-text compute — it's fast and cheap.

---

### What does it do?

For each Wistia video (by `hashedId` or harvested from an embedding page) it returns:

- 📝 **Full transcript** (plain text) — always included
- ⏲️ **Timestamped segments** — `{start, end, text}`
- 🎬 **SRT / VTT subtitles**
- 🏷️ **Title, duration, media type, caption language**

No ASR, no API key — it reads the captions the uploader added.

---

### What data does it extract?

For every video: `hashed_id`, `title`, `duration_sec`, `media_type`, `caption_language`, `transcript`, `segments[]`, `srt`, `vtt`, `segment_count`, `is_new` (monitor), `scraped_at`.

---

### Who is it for?

- 📣 **Marketing & demand-gen teams** repurposing Wistia product/webinar videos into text.
- 🤖 **AI / RAG builders** turning hosted video into searchable content.
- ♿ **Accessibility / SEO** workflows needing captions and transcripts.

---

### How to use it (step by step)

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Paste Wistia **hashedIds** (the token after `/medias/`) — or an **embedding page URL**.
3. *(Optional)* add `srt`/`vtt`/`segments` formats.
4. Click **Start**, open the **Dataset** tab to view/export.
5. *(Optional)* set **monitorMode** + a **pageUrl** + a **Schedule** for new videos.

#### Quick start

```json
{ "hashedIds": ["z1fxq584qr"], "transcriptFormats": ["txt", "srt"] }
````

***

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|-------|--------------|
| `hashedIds` | Wistia hashedIds or embed URLs |
| `pageUrl` | a page embedding Wistia videos to harvest IDs from |
| `transcriptFormats` | `txt` · `segments` · `srt` · `vtt` |
| `maxVideos` | hard cap per run (0 = unlimited) |
| `monitorMode`, `alertOnNewVideo` | recurring watcher + alerts |
| `webhookUrl`, `slackWebhookUrl`, `emailRecipients` | alert channels |
| `proxyConfiguration`, `requestConcurrency` | proxy + parallelism |

***

### Output

Each video is one dataset record (fields above). Export to **JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS**, or fetch via the **Apify API**. Videos without captions are returned with a `note` (not faked).

***

### How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event — and with **no transcription compute**, it's cheap:

| Event | What it covers | Suggested price |
|-------|----------------|-----------------|
| `lot-scraped` | each video returned | ~$0.004 / video |
| `lot-detail-enriched` | each transcript fetched | ~$0.004 / video |
| `monitor-run-completed` | each scheduled watch run | ~$0.05 / run |
| `new-lot-detected` | each new video | ~$0.02 / video |
| `alert-delivered` | each Slack/email/webhook push | ~$0.005 / alert |

*(Final per-event prices are set on the actor's pricing page.)*

***

### How does it work without AI transcription?

Wistia stores each video's captions on its public CDN (`fast.wistia.net`), reachable by the video's `hashedId`. This actor reads those captions (inline transcript + a WEBVTT track) — it does **not** run speech-to-text, so there's no GPU/compute cost. Captions exist only if the uploader added or auto-generated them; videos without captions are reported as such.

***

### Is it legal to scrape Wistia transcripts?

This actor reads **publicly embeddable** Wistia videos' own caption files. The content belongs to the publisher (copyrighted). Scraping public data is generally legal, but **you are responsible for your use — review Wistia's and the publisher's terms; don't redistribute transcripts you're not licensed to.**

***

### FAQ

**Where do I find the hashedId?**
It's the token after `/medias/` in a Wistia embed/URL (e.g. `fast.wistia.net/embed/medias/z1fxq584qr` → `z1fxq584qr`), or `media-id="…"` in the embed code. You can also pass a page URL and let the actor harvest them.

**Is there a Whisper/ASR step?**
No — it reads Wistia's captions, 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.

***

### Feedback

Want multi-language caption pulls or project-level crawling? Open an issue on the actor.

# Actor input Schema

## `hashedIds` (type: `array`):

Wistia video hashedIds (the token after /medias/ in an embed, e.g. z1fxq584qr) or full fast.wistia.net/embed/medias/{id} URLs.

## `pageUrl` (type: `string`):

Any page that embeds Wistia videos — the actor harvests every hashedId it finds (medias/{id} or media-id="{id}"). Great with monitor mode.

## `transcriptFormats` (type: `array`):

Which transcript representations to include. Plain text is always included.

## `maxVideos` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap per run (0 = unlimited).

## `monitorMode` (type: `boolean`):

Recurring watcher: diff against the prior run's seen videos (per page) and output/alert ONLY new videos. Pair with a pageUrl + Schedule.

## `alertOnNewVideo` (type: `boolean`):

In monitor mode, deliver an alert for each new video.

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

POST endpoint for new-video alert payloads.

## `slackWebhookUrl` (type: `string`):

Slack incoming-webhook URL.

## `emailRecipients` (type: `array`):

Emails for the digest (via apify/send-mail).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Datacenter rotation is plenty.

## `requestConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Max parallel video fetches.

## `diagnose` (type: `boolean`):

Dev only. Logs the parsed first record, then exits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "hashedIds": [
    "z1fxq584qr"
  ],
  "transcriptFormats": [
    "txt"
  ],
  "maxVideos": 0,
  "monitorMode": false,
  "alertOnNewVideo": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "requestConcurrency": 5,
  "diagnose": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `transcripts` (type: `string`):

The dataset of transcribed Wistia videos (one item per video).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "hashedIds": [
        "z1fxq584qr"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapersdelight/wistia-transcript-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "hashedIds": ["z1fxq584qr"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapersdelight/wistia-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "hashedIds": [
    "z1fxq584qr"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapersdelight/wistia-transcript-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapersdelight/wistia-transcript-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Wistia Transcript Scraper — Captions to TXT, SRT & VTT",
        "description": "Extract any public Wistia video's transcript and captions — no login, no ASR. By hashedId or any page that embeds Wistia: full text, timestamped segments & SRT/VTT, plus title and duration, straight from Wistia's CDN. $2 per 1,000 videos.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "cs4QlWlxaGY2GdDg9"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/scrapersdelight~wistia-transcript-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-scrapersdelight-wistia-transcript-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapersdelight~wistia-transcript-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-scrapersdelight-wistia-transcript-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapersdelight~wistia-transcript-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-scrapersdelight-wistia-transcript-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "hashedIds": {
                        "title": "Wistia hashedIds / URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Wistia video hashedIds (the token after /medias/ in an embed, e.g. z1fxq584qr) or full fast.wistia.net/embed/medias/{id} URLs.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "pageUrl": {
                        "title": "Embedding page URL (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Any page that embeds Wistia videos — the actor harvests every hashedId it finds (medias/{id} or media-id=\"{id}\"). Great with monitor mode."
                    },
                    "transcriptFormats": {
                        "title": "Transcript formats",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Which transcript representations to include. Plain text is always included.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string",
                            "enum": [
                                "txt",
                                "segments",
                                "srt",
                                "vtt"
                            ],
                            "enumTitles": [
                                "Plain text",
                                "Timestamped segments (array)",
                                "SRT subtitles",
                                "VTT subtitles"
                            ]
                        },
                        "default": [
                            "txt"
                        ]
                    },
                    "maxVideos": {
                        "title": "Max videos per run",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Hard cap per run (0 = unlimited).",
                        "default": 0
                    },
                    "monitorMode": {
                        "title": "Monitor mode (new-video watcher)",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Recurring watcher: diff against the prior run's seen videos (per page) and output/alert ONLY new videos. Pair with a pageUrl + Schedule.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "alertOnNewVideo": {
                        "title": "Alert on new videos",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "In monitor mode, deliver an alert for each new video.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "webhookUrl": {
                        "title": "Webhook URL",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "POST endpoint for new-video alert payloads."
                    },
                    "slackWebhookUrl": {
                        "title": "Slack webhook URL",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Slack incoming-webhook URL."
                    },
                    "emailRecipients": {
                        "title": "Email recipients",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Emails for the digest (via apify/send-mail).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Proxy settings. Datacenter rotation is plenty.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true
                        }
                    },
                    "requestConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Request concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 10,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Max parallel video fetches.",
                        "default": 5
                    },
                    "diagnose": {
                        "title": "Diagnostic mode (dev)",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Dev only. Logs the parsed first record, then exits.",
                        "default": false
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```