Podcast Transcription Scraper — Speech to Text, Audio & Video
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 audio minutes
Audio & video transcription: never charged for a link we can't reach, can't decode, or that has no speech. Any audio or video URL to text, SRT and VTT with timestamped segments — direct file links from any host, plus 14 tested sites for page links. About 90 languages, no API key of your own.
You can access the Podcast Transcription Scraper — Speech to Text, Audio & Video programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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Files over 256 MB come back as an uncharged row — send the audio-only version. YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn ads, TikTok Creative Center, Google Ads Transparency Center and Facebook Ad Library links belong in their own steadyfetch actor and come back uncharged naming it. Long meeting and conference recordings are the ones that cross the size limit, and an audio-only version of the same session is usually far smaller. Every field, this one included, accepts null, meaning \"use the default\"; for a whole show use \"Podcast feeds or show links\" (`podcastUrls`), for a whole scraper run the Dataset ID. Leave it empty with nothing else set and the run transcribes a fixed 25-second public-domain sample clip (charged like any run: one audio minute) — the fastest way to see real output, and leaving it empty with only the options below set runs that same clip under them.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "podcastUrls": { "title": "Podcast feeds or show links", "type": "array", "description": "A whole podcast show per line: an RSS feed address such as https://example.com/feed.xml, or an Apple Podcasts SHOW link such as https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/name/id1200361736 (the show page, not an episode — an episode link carries ?i= and belongs in \"Media URLs\"). The newest episodes are read from the feed and transcribed, newest first, as many as \"Episodes per show\" allows. Never charged: a feed we cannot reach, a link that is not a feed, a show Apple does not list, and any episode this account already had — each comes back as an uncharged row naming what was found. 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