YouTube Subtitles
Pricing
from $3.50 / 1,000 subtitles delivereds
Download YouTube subtitles as ready-to-use SRT and VTT files, with a download link for each file, plus plain text. Pick the language, manual or auto-generated captions, and videos, playlists or channels. Videos without subtitles 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'.
Subtitle file formats to deliver. Each one comes as a field with the full file and, with 'Save subtitle files' on, as a downloadable file. Same price for one or both.
[ "srt", "vtt"]Saves each subtitle as a .srt or .vtt file in the run's key-value store (named -.srt) and adds 'srtFileUrl' / 'vttFileUrl' download links to the item.
Subtitle languages in order of preference (e.g. en, es, pt-BR). If none is available, the first manual subtitle is used, then the auto-generated one.
[ "en", "pt", "pt-BR", "es"]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.
Which captions to use. Videos without the requested type come back with errorCode NO_CAPTIONS_IN_LANGUAGE and are not charged.
Adds a 'segments' array with text, start and duration (seconds) for each caption line.
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-subtitles-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.