# Get YouTube transcripts in bulk

**Use case:** 

Takes a list of YouTube links and returns each video's transcript as plain text and as timed segments, plus title, channel, duration and view count. Give it an ordered list of languages and it falls back to YouTube's own machine translation when your first choice is missing. Videos with no captions, private or members-only come back as a row explaining why, and are never charged.

## Input

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",
    "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw"
  ],
  "preferredLanguages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "includeAutoGenerated": true,
  "outputFormat": "both",
  "maxVideos": 200
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "channel": {
    "label": "Channel",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "Transcript language",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isAutoGenerated": {
    "label": "Auto-generated captions",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "durationSeconds": {
    "label": "Duration (seconds)",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "cueCount": {
    "label": "Segments",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "characterCount": {
    "label": "Characters",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Video URL",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [YouTube Transcript Scraper 📝 (bulk, any language)](https://apify.com/tagadanar/youtube-transcript-extractor.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/tagadanar/youtube-transcript-extractor.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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