YouTube Transcript Scraper
Pricing
$5.00 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube Transcript Scraper
Fast YouTube transcript & subtitles extractor. Pay only for successfully extracted transcripts ($0.005 per video).
Extract transcripts & subtitles from any YouTube video — fast, reliable, and priced per success.
$0.005 per successfully extracted transcript. If a video has no captions or extraction fails, you are not charged.
Features
- ⚡ Fast: pure HTTP extraction — ~1 second per video, no browser overhead
- 💬 Manual & auto-generated captions (ASR) in 100+ languages
- 🕒 Timestamped segments or plain text — your choice
- 🔗 Flexible input: watch URLs,
youtu.belinks, Shorts links, or bare video IDs - 📋 Metadata included: title, channel, duration, view count, available languages
- 🌍 Language selection: pick any available caption language per run
Output
Each video produces one dataset item:
{"videoId": "aircAruvnKk","url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk","title": "But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1","channel": "3Blue1Brown","durationSec": 1137,"viewCount": 19000000,"language": "en","isAutoGenerated": false,"availableLanguages": ["en", "es", "pt", "fr"],"transcript": "This is a 3. It's sloppily written ...","transcriptChars": 18430,"segmentCount": 286,"segments": [{ "start": 0.0, "dur": 4.2, "text": "This is a 3." }]}
Set includeSegments: false to skip the segments array for large batches.
Usage
- Add one or more YouTube video URLs (or bare video IDs).
- Pick your preferred
language(falls back to the closest match). - Run — you get one item per video.
Pricing
Pay Per Event: $0.005 per transcript — charged only when a transcript is successfully extracted. Videos without captions, private/unavailable videos, and failed extractions cost nothing.
Notes
- Live streams without captions and videos with captions disabled by the creator cannot be extracted.
- Large batches run sequentially (~1s per video); a 1,000-video list finishes in ~20 minutes.
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