Turn YouTube videos into RAG-ready chunks
Extract timestamped YouTube transcripts and split them into clean, overlapping chunks for semantic search, vector databases, and AI retrieval.
YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions, SRT, VTT & RAGsebastian-actors/youtube-transcript-scraper
Status
Video ID
Title
Channel
+8 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
YouTube video URLs or IDs(required):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk
Preferred languages:en
Output formats:text+2
Transcript cleaning
Decode HTML entities:true
Normalize whitespace:true
Normalize Unicode:true
Deduplicate adjacent segments:true
Remove non-speech cues:true
Paragraph gap:2.5
RAG chunking
Maximum characters:1200
Overlap characters:150
Include timestamps:true
Output fields
Status
Video ID
Title
Channel
Language code
Caption type
Automatically generated
Translated
Words
Segments
Error code
Fetched at
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions, SRT, VTT & RAG.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
