YouTube Captions
Pricing
from $3.50 / 1,000 captions delivereds
Extract YouTube captions by type (manual or auto-generated) and language, and list every caption track a video has. Text, timestamps, SRT or VTT, with title, views and publish date. Videos without captions are free. Pay per video.
YouTube video URLs (watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed, live) or 11-character IDs. Playlist, channel and search URLs also work: their videos are expanded, limited by the advanced setting 'Max videos per channel, playlist or search'.
Which captions to use. Videos without the requested type come back with errorCode NO_CAPTIONS_IN_LANGUAGE and are not charged. Every item also lists all caption tracks of the video in 'captionTracks'.
Caption languages in order of preference (e.g. en, es, pt-BR). If none is available, the first manual caption is used, then the auto-generated one.
[ "en", "pt", "pt-BR", "es"]Adds a 'segments' array with text, start and duration (seconds) for each caption line.
Adds ready-to-use 'srt' and/or 'vtt' fields with the full caption file. Same price.
[]Language code to translate with YouTube's own translation (e.g. es, pt). YouTube refuses most of these requests; when it does, the original language is delivered and the reason is recorded in translationError.
For playlist, channel and search URLs: how many videos to take from each one.
Skip videos published before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Skipped videos produce no item and are not charged.
Include Shorts when listing a channel or a search. Off: regular videos and past live streams only.
Remembers which videos of each channel, playlist or search already got delivered (in a named key-value store in your account, 'youtube-captions-only-new-videos') and skips them on the next runs. Ideal for a daily or weekly schedule. Videos without captions are tried again next time, free.
Hard limit for the whole run, across all inputs. Protects your budget.
Each video is tried twice through datacenter proxy before falling back to the proxy below. Keeps runs fast and cheap.