# Changelog of YouTube AI Transcript Extractor (`sian.agency/youtube-ai-transcript-extractor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/youtube-ai-transcript-extractor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/youtube-ai-transcript-extractor.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to **YouTube AI Transcript Extractor** will be documented in this file.

### 2026-07-13

#### 🎉 YouTube AI Transcript Extractor — Launch!

- **Any YouTube Video to Text** — transcribe long-form videos, Shorts, and live replays from `watch?v=`, `youtu.be`, `/shorts/`, `/embed/`, `/live/`, or a bare video ID
- **Instant Native Captions** — reads a video's own captions in seconds for fast, low-cost YouTube transcription
- **AI Audio Fallback** — no captions? It automatically falls back to AI audio transcription so you still get a full transcript
- **SRT & VTT Subtitle Files** — download ready-to-use YouTube subtitle files plus full text and timestamped segments
- **60+ Metadata Fields** — get views, likes, comments, channel analytics, keywords, thumbnails, category, and related videos in the same run
- **Bulk & CSV/TXT Upload** — transcribe hundreds of YouTube videos at once with auto-detected URL columns

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Turn any YouTube video into clean, searchable text in under a minute
- Save hours of manual transcription and captioning work
- Cost-aligned pricing — $0.01 per captioned video, per-minute AI transcription only for caption-less videos; free to try
- Drop clean structured transcripts straight into AI, RAG, and LLM pipelines

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Content creators repurposing long-form videos into blogs, show notes, and clips
- SEO and marketing teams mining transcripts and keywords from competitor videos
- Data teams building searchable knowledge bases and Q\&A over YouTube content
- Editors and publishers generating SRT/VTT subtitles for accessibility