# Download YouTube subtitles as SRT and WebVTT

**Use case:** 

Extract clean, timestamped captions from a public YouTube video and export ready-to-use SRT and WebVTT subtitle files.

## Input

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"
  ],
  "preferredLanguages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "captionPreference": "manual-first",
  "fallbackToAnyLanguage": true,
  "outputFormats": [
    "segments",
    "srt",
    "vtt"
  ],
  "cleaning": {
    "decodeHtmlEntities": true,
    "normalizeWhitespace": true,
    "normalizeUnicode": true,
    "deduplicateAdjacentSegments": true,
    "removeNonSpeechCues": false,
    "paragraphGapSeconds": 2.5
  },
  "chunking": {
    "maxCharacters": 2000,
    "overlapCharacters": 200,
    "includeTimestamps": true
  },
  "includeMetadata": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "maxRetriesPerVideo": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "debug": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "videoId": {
    "label": "Video ID",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "channelName": {
    "label": "Channel",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "languageCode": {
    "label": "Language code",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "captionType": {
    "label": "Caption type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isGenerated": {
    "label": "Automatically generated",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "isTranslated": {
    "label": "Translated",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "Words",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "segmentCount": {
    "label": "Segments",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "errorCode": {
    "label": "Error code",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "fetchedAt": {
    "label": "Fetched at",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions, SRT, VTT & RAG](https://apify.com/sebastian-actors/youtube-transcript-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/sebastian-actors/youtube-transcript-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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