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YouTube Transcript & Subtitle Scraper

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Turn public YouTube videos and Shorts into clean transcript text, timestamped segments, SRT, WebVTT, Markdown, and RAG-ready chunks. No YouTube API key or YouTube login is required.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 transcript extracteds

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Developer

Sebastián S

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Monthly active users

8 days ago

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Categories

Videos

Social media

Developer tools

YouTube video URLs or IDs

videoUrls

Required

Individual YouTube video URLs or raw 11-character video IDs. Channels, playlists, profiles, and search pages are returned as per-item errors.

Type:string[]

Min. items:1

Max. items:1000

Preferred languages

preferredLanguages

Optional

Ordered BCP 47 language preferences. Exact regional matches beat base-language matches.

Type:string[]

Max. items:20

Default:

[
  "en"
]

Caption preference

captionPreference

Optional

Choose whether human-created or automatically generated captions are preferred or required.

Type:string

Default:manual-first

Options:

manual-firstauto-firstmanual-onlyauto-only

Fallback to any language

fallbackToAnyLanguage

Optional

Select another available language when no preferred language matches.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Translate to

translateTo

Optional

Optional YouTube-supported target language code. Existing native target-language captions are preferred.

Type:string

Min. length:2

Max. length:35

Output formats

outputFormats

Optional

Transcript artifacts to include in each successful result.

Type:string[]

Min. items:1

Default:

[
  "text",
  "segments"
]

Transcript cleaning

cleaning

Optional

Configure deterministic text normalization. No punctuation is invented.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "decodeHtmlEntities": true,
  "normalizeWhitespace": true,
  "normalizeUnicode": true,
  "deduplicateAdjacentSegments": true,
  "removeNonSpeechCues": false,
  "paragraphGapSeconds": 2.5
}

RAG chunking

chunking

Optional

Configure segment-aware chunks generated when the chunks format is selected.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "maxCharacters": 2000,
  "overlapCharacters": 200,
  "includeTimestamps": true
}

Include video metadata

includeMetadata

Optional

Include available title, channel, duration, publication, thumbnail, Shorts, and live metadata.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Maximum concurrency

maxConcurrency

Optional

Number of videos processed concurrently.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20

Default:5

Retries per video

maxRetriesPerVideo

Optional

Number of complete session retries after the first attempt.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5

Default:3

Request timeout

requestTimeoutSecs

Optional

Timeout applied to each upstream HTTP request.

Type:integer

Minimum:10

Maximum:120

Default:30

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Use Apify Proxy or your own proxy URLs for YouTube requests.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ]
}

Debug logging

debug

Optional

Log sanitized phase diagnostics without transcripts, cookies, tokens, response bodies, or proxy URLs.

Type:boolean

Default:false

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