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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Fast, Reliable, $2/1000

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Bulk YouTube transcripts and subtitles (any language, auto or manual captions) at $2 per 1,000 - five times cheaper than the incumbent and it actually works. Uses mobile innertube API to bypass empty web timedtext responses.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 results

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Kyle Pretorius

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How it works

Uses YouTube's mobile innertube API (Android/iOS clients) to retrieve caption track lists. The classic web timedtext path silently returns empty responses; mobile clients still work. Falls back from Android to iOS client automatically, and from JSON3 caption format to XML.

Inputs

Field	Type	Default	Description
videoUrls	array	`["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]`	Video URLs or IDs. Accepts playlist/channel URLs when expandPlaylists is true
language	string	`"en"`	Preferred caption language code (en, es, de, ko, etc.)
preferManual	boolean	`true`	Prefer human-written captions over auto-generated (ASR)
includeTimestamps	boolean	`true`	Include per-segment start time and duration
plainText	boolean	`true`	Return the whole transcript as one cleaned string
expandPlaylists	boolean	`false`	Expand playlist or channel URLs into individual videos
maxItems	integer	`100`	Maximum number of videos to process

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
video_id	string	YouTube video ID
video_url	string	Full YouTube URL
title	string	Video title
channel	string	Channel name
channel_id	string	Channel ID
duration_seconds	number	Video duration in seconds
view_count	number	View count
published_at	string	Publish date (null if unavailable)
language	string	Language code of the returned transcript
is_auto_generated	boolean	True if the transcript is ASR-generated
available_languages	array	All caption language codes available for this video
transcript_text	string	Full transcript as a single string (null if plainText=false)
segments	array	List of `{start, duration, text}` objects (null if includeTimestamps=false)
word_count	number	Word count of the transcript
error	string	Error message if the video failed, otherwise null

Example output item

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "channel": "Rick Astley",
  "channel_id": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "duration_seconds": 213,
  "view_count": 1815620592,
  "published_at": null,
  "language": "en",
  "is_auto_generated": false,
  "available_languages": ["en", "en (auto)", "de-DE"],
  "transcript_text": "[music] We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I ...",
  "segments": [
    { "start": 0.0, "duration": 2.4, "text": "[music]" },
    { "start": 18.88, "duration": 3.28, "text": "We're no strangers to love" }
  ],
  "word_count": 487,
  "error": null
}

Pricing

$2.00 per 1,000 results (pay-per-result). You are only charged for items that are successfully pushed to the dataset.

Limitations

published_at is not returned by the mobile API and will be null.
Videos with no captions (no auto-generated, no manual) return an item with error: "no captions available for this video".
Private, deleted, age-restricted, and live-stream videos return an item with a descriptive error field instead of failing the whole run.
Concurrency is capped at 5 requests with small jittered delays to avoid rate limiting.
Playlist/channel expansion uses the same mobile API; very large playlists paginate automatically up to maxItems.

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