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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles & Timestamps

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Get YouTube transcripts with timestamps from any video, playlist, channel or search. Auto-generated (ASR) and human captions, any language, optional machine translation, plus SRT/VTT and full video metadata. No API key, no login.

Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 per video transcript returneds

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Scrapers Delight

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Videos

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Video URLs or IDs

videoUrls

Optional

YouTube videos to transcribe. Accepts watch URLs, youtu.be short links, /shorts/, /embed/, /live/ and bare 11-character video IDs. Mix any of them freely.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Playlist URLs

playlistUrls

Optional

Transcribe every video in these playlists. Accepts a playlist URL (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=…), a watch URL that carries a list= parameter, or a bare playlist ID. Capped per playlist by 'Max videos per source'.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Channel URLs or handles

channelUrls

Optional

Transcribe the newest videos from these channels. Accepts @handles, /channel/UC… URLs, /c/ and /user/ vanity URLs, or a bare UC… channel ID. Capped per channel by 'Max videos per source'.

Type:array

Default:

[]

YouTube search queries

searchQueries

Optional

Search YouTube and transcribe the top video results for each query. Capped per query by 'Max videos per source'.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Preferred transcript languages

languages

Optional

Ordered preference list of language codes, e.g. ['en', 'es', 'pt-BR']. The first one the video actually publishes wins; 'en' also matches 'en-US' and 'en-GB'. Use ['any'] to always take the video's own default track.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "en"
]

Fall back to any available language

fallbackToAnyLanguage

Optional

If the video has captions but not in your preferred languages, return the best track it does have instead of an empty row. On by default — a Spanish video coming back blank because you asked for English is the most common complaint about transcript scrapers.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Prefer auto-generated captions

preferAutoGenerated

Optional

By default human-written captions win over YouTube's automatic speech recognition for the same language, because they are punctuated and accurate. Switch this on to prefer the ASR track instead (it is usually more complete on long videos).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Translate transcript to

translateTo

Optional

Optional. A language code (e.g. es, fr, de, ja) to have YouTube machine-translate the transcript before it is returned. Leave empty to get the original language. The available targets for each video are listed in the row's translationLanguages field.

Type:string

Default:

Include timestamped segments

includeSegments

Optional

Include the segments array — every caption cue with its start, duration and end in seconds. Turn off for a much smaller row when you only want the plain text.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include SRT subtitles

includeSrt

Optional

Add an srt field containing the transcript rendered as a ready-to-use .srt subtitle file.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include WebVTT subtitles

includeVtt

Optional

Add a vtt field containing the transcript rendered as a ready-to-use WebVTT file.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include publish date, category and likes

includeVideoMetadata

Optional

Fetch the video's publish date, upload date, YouTube category and like count. These live in a different response than the captions, so this adds one small request per video. Title, channel, duration, views, description, keywords and thumbnail come free either way.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Skip videos with no transcript

skipVideosWithoutTranscript

Optional

Leave off (the default) to get a row for every video, with transcriptStatus and transcriptError explaining any that came back empty — you are never charged for a row you did not ask to skip, but you do see which videos failed and why. Switch on to deliver only videos that actually produced a transcript.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max videos per playlist / channel / search

maxVideosPerSource

Optional

How many videos to take from each playlist, channel or search query. Bounded by default so a channel with 5,000 uploads does not run away. 0 = no per-source limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:50

Max videos per run

maxItems

Optional

Hard stop on the total number of videos transcribed in this run, across every source. 0 = no limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:200

Request concurrency

requestConcurrency

Optional

How many videos to fetch in parallel. YouTube throttles hard above ~10; the default of 5 is measured as the fast, reliable setting.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10

Default:5

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Defaults to Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group, and you should leave it there. Measured 2026-09-02: through Apify's DATACENTER pool YouTube answers every request with 'Sign in to confirm you're not a bot' and zero caption tracks; through RESIDENTIAL it returns full transcripts. Datacenter proxies do not work for this endpoint. You can supply your own residential proxy instead.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ]
}

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