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Get a YouTube video transcript as plain text

Turn any YouTube video into a clean plain-text transcript with title, channel, views and duration. No API key needed. Ideal for summaries, notes, RAG pipelines and LLM prompts.

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YouTube Transcript Scraper — Multi-Client Fallback
YouTube Transcript Scraper — Multi-Client Fallbacksteadyapi/youtube-transcript-scraper
Video ID
Title
Channel
Lang
+7 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

YouTube videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Output format:text

Output fields

Video ID
Title
Channel
Lang
Auto-generated
Lines
Chars
Client
URL
Error
Error type

How it works

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The YouTube Transcript Scraper — Multi-Client Fallback Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Get a YouTube video transcript as plain text". Sign up or log in and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

Start the "Get a YouTube video transcript as plain text" task

The YouTube Transcript Scraper — Multi-Client Fallback Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like youtube videos and output format, to match your specific use case.

Receive the "Get a YouTube video transcript as plain text" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as video id, title, channel, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Get a YouTube video transcript as plain text" task via API.

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