Pricing

from $3.99 / 1,000 results

Try for free

Go to Apify Store

YouTube Transcript Scraper

Try for free

YouTube Transcript Scraper — Extract YouTube video transcripts and subtitles, including spoken text, timestamps, language details, and video metadata. Useful for content repurposing, SEO research, video summarization, keyword analysis, and AI training workflows.

Pricing

from $3.99 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Social Data API

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

4 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Video ID

Optional

YouTube's 11-character video ID. Null when the entry was not a YouTube video link.

Type:string | null

Example:

jNQXAC9IVRw

Video URL

url

Optional

Standard watch link of the video.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

Input

input

Optional

The link exactly as it was entered.

Type:string

Example:

https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw

Transcripts

transcripts

Optional

One item per transcript: language (display name), languageCode, isGenerated (automatic captions or machine translation), content (plain text, or a list of {startMs, endMs, startTime, text} lines with Timestamped cues), wordCount and charCount. Empty when the video has no transcript.

Type:array

Example:

[
  {
    "language": "English",
    "languageCode": "en",
    "isGenerated": false,
    "content": "All right, so here we are, in front of the\nelephants the cool thing about these guys is that they\nhave really... really …",
    "wordCount": 39,
    "charCount": 217
  }
]

Title

title

Optional

Video title.

Type:string | null

Example:

Me at the zoo

Length

length

Optional

Video length as MM:SS, or H:MM:SS from one hour on.

Type:string | null

Example:

00:19

Channel name

channel_name

Optional

Name of the channel that published the video.

Type:string | null

Example:

jawed

Views

views

Optional

View count when the video was scraped.

Type:integer | null

Example:

441255195

Transcript lines

transcript

Optional

The first transcript as timed lines: {start, dur, text}, start and duration in seconds as text with three decimals.

Type:array

Example:

[
  {
    "start": "1.200",
    "dur": "2.160",
    "text": "All right, so here we are, in front of the\nelephants"
  },
  {
    "start": "5.318",
    "dur": "2.656",
    "text": "the cool thing about these guys is that they\nhave really..."
  }
]

Message

message

Optional

What happened, for example 'Transcript loaded from subtitles:en', 'Transcript loaded from auto_captions:en', 'No transcript available for this video', 'Video unavailable (…)', 'Failed to download transcript (…)' or 'Not a YouTube video link'.

Type:string

Example:

Transcript loaded from subtitles:en

Description

description

Optional

Video description. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at an alarming rate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PT5c1z3LL8 “Nanopla…

Published

publishDate

Optional

Publish date with time zone. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

2005-04-23T20:31:52-07:00

Published (relative)

publishDateSince

Optional

Relative publish date such as '16 years ago'. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

21 years ago

tags

Optional

The video's tags. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "me at the zoo",
  "jawed karim",
  "first youtube video"
]

Duration (s)

durationSeconds

Optional

Length in seconds. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:integer | null

Example:

View count

viewCount

Optional

View count. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:integer | null

Example:

441255195

Like count

likeCount

Optional

Like count, null when hidden. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:integer | null

Example:

20018376

Live now

isLiveNow

Optional

Whether the video is a live stream. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:boolean | null

Example:

false

Thumbnail

thumbnailUrl

Optional

Largest thumbnail link. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFBCNACELwBSFryq4qpAzMIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGFUgWShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDAx0i-3yiCuKLR-k79qDhPkVGKBQ

Thumbnails

thumbnails

Optional

All thumbnail links. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFACKgBEF5IWvKriqkDMwgBFQAAiEIYAdgBAeIBCggYEAIYBjgBQAHwAQH4Ab4CgALwAYoCDAgAEAEYVSBZKGUwDw==&rs=AOn4CLDdd7T1EF4PbvVj_eOXeF78L_96_w",
  "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFACMQBEG5IWvKriqkDMwgBFQAAiEIYAdgBAeIBCggYEAIYBjgBQAHwAQH4Ab4CgALwAYoCDAgAEAEYVSBZKGUwDw==&rs=AOn4CLCVDYrE5gql6QqbXP1KyIAyLenJHw",
  "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFBCPYBEIoBSFryq4qpAzMIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGFUgWShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBcemVhk0B03Zm7rBl2NztwTSOsNA",
  "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwFBCNACELwBSFryq4qpAzMIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGFUgWShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDAx0i-3yiCuKLR-k79qDhPkVGKBQ"
]

Channel ID

channelId

Optional

Channel ID. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A

Channel username

channelUsername

Optional

Channel handle without @. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

jawed

Channel

channelDisplayName

Optional

Channel display name. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

jawed

Channel URL

channelUrl

Optional

Channel link. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A

Verified channel

channelIsVerified

Optional

Whether the channel has a verified badge. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

Details fetched

metadataFetched

Optional

True when the video details could be read. Only with Fetch video details.

Type:boolean

Example:

true

Subscribers (text)

channelSubscriberCountText

Optional

Subscriber count as shown, such as '4.55M'. Only with Include channel subscriber count.

Type:string | null

Example:

6.66M

Subscribers

channelSubscriberCount

Optional

Subscriber count as a number. Only with Include channel subscriber count.

Type:integer | null

Example:

6660000

Channel external ID

channelExternalId

Optional

Channel ID from the channel page. Only with Include channel subscriber count.

Type:string | null

Example:

UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A

Subscriber count status

channelInfoCoverage

Optional

ok, partial (no subscriber line shown) or unavailable. Only with Include channel subscriber count.

Type:string

Example:

Caption coverage %

transcriptCoveragePercent

Optional

How much of the video the first transcript covers. Only with Compute engagement analytics.

Type:number | null

Example:

99.37

Words per minute

estimatedSpeakingRateWpm

Optional

Words of the first transcript per minute of video. Only with Compute engagement analytics.

Type:number | null

Example:

123.16

Engagement rate

engagementRate

Optional

Likes divided by views. Only with Compute engagement analytics.

Type:number | null

Example:

0.045367

Scraped at

scrapedAt

Optional

When the row was scraped (UTC).

Type:string

Example:

2026-10-08T06:18:57Z

Other properties may be included.

YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API

johnvc/YoutubeTranscripts

Scrape YouTube transcripts, subtitles, and captions in bulk, the cheapest pay-per-video YouTube transcript API on Apify. Callable from any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT). Supports YouTube videos, Shorts, and every URL format.

John

5.3K

4.8

(11)

YouTube Transcript Extractor

akash9078/youtube-transcript-extractor

Extract accurate YouTube video transcripts and timestamped captions without an API key. Supports YouTube Shorts, live stream VODs, Premieres, embedded videos, and auto-generated subtitles in 100+ languages. Fast YouTube transcript extractor for SEO, AI, research, and content creation.

Akash Kumar Naik

205

YouTube Video Transcript & Metadata Scraper

trisecode/yt-transcript

Fast & free YouTube scraper. Extract transcripts, subtitles, and detailed video metadata without an API key. Supports export to JSON, CSV.

Trisecode

122

Facebook Transcript Scraper & API: Reels & Video to Text

quarra/facebook-transcript-scraper

Turn Facebook reels and videos into text, from links or a Page's latest reels. Plain text with timestamps, SRT and VTT, the language spoken, and the video's details. Facebook's own captions when they exist. No login. Videos without speech are not charged.

Quarra Labs

YouTube Transcript Scraper - Videos, Playlists & Channels

tidelark/youtube-transcript-scraper

Extract YouTube transcripts/subtitles in any language from videos, Shorts, playlists and entire channels. Plain text, timestamps, SRT and VTT, auto-translation, plus video metadata. You only pay for transcripts actually found.

Tidelark Data

YouTube AI Transcript Extractor

dev00/youtube-transcript-api

Extract structured timestamped transcripts from YouTube/Shorts URLs using AI speech-to-text.

dev00

Youtube Transcript Scraper

bigibyte/youtube-transcript-scraper

Extract YouTube transcripts with timestamps, plus title, channel, views, likes, duration and keywords. Paste video links or IDs and export clean JSON, CSV or Excel.

BigiByte

YouTube Captions API: Any Language, Timestamps

deepmine/youtube-captions-api

YouTube captions API: send video, channel, playlist or search inputs and get each video's captions as timed segments and full text, manual or auto-generated, in any language (translated with timings kept), with every caption track listed. JSON, CSV or SRT. No YouTube API key.

DeepMine

YouTube Transcript Scraper

parsebird/youtube-transcript-scraper

Get YouTube video transcripts and subtitles at scale. Extract plain text, timestamped segments, SRT and VTT, plus title, channel, views, and keywords. Optional Whisper AI fallback for caption-less videos.

ParseBird

TikTok Bulk Video Downloader (No Watermark) & Subtitles

automation_studio/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles

High-speed bulk TikTok video downloader. Extracts clean unwatermarked MP4 (HD), MP3 audio tracks, and native closed-caption subtitles in SRT, VTT & text formats.