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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Extract YouTube captions, timestamps, SRT, VTT, and plain text from public videos in bulk without browser automation.

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YouTube Video URLs

videoUrls

Optional

YouTube watch, Shorts, embed, or youtu.be URLs.

Type:array

Video IDs

videoIds

Optional

Direct 11-character YouTube video IDs.

Type:array

Preferred Caption Language

language

Optional

Preferred caption language code, e.g. en, ja, es. Falls back to the first available track.

Type:string

Default:en

Include Auto-generated Captions

includeAutoGenerated

Optional

Allow YouTube auto-generated captions when manual captions are unavailable.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Translation Language

translationLanguage

Optional

Optional YouTube translation target language code. Leave blank to return the original caption track.

Type:string

Default:

Output Format

outputFormat

Optional

Extra formatted transcript field to include with each row.

Type:string

Default:json

Options:

jsontextsrtvtt

Max Videos

maxVideos

Optional

Maximum number of videos to process in one run.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:100

HTTP Timeout

timeoutMs

Optional

Request timeout in milliseconds.

Type:integer

Minimum:3000

Maximum:60000

Default:15000

Dry Run

dryRun

Optional

Validate inputs and emit preview rows without fetching YouTube.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Playlist URLs

playlistUrls

Optional

Optional YouTube playlist URLs. The actor fetches the public page and extracts visible video IDs.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Channel URLs

channelUrls

Optional

Optional YouTube channel URLs. The actor fetches the public page and extracts visible video IDs.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Dedupe Videos

dedupeVideos

Optional

Remove duplicate video IDs after combining direct videos, playlists, and channels.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Delivery Mode

delivery

Optional

Choose whether to write transcripts only to the dataset or also call webhookUrl after the run.

Type:string

Default:dataset

Options:

datasetdataset_and_webhook

Webhook URL

webhookUrl

Optional

Optional HTTPS endpoint that receives transcript rows after the run when delivery is dataset_and_webhook.

Type:string

Default:

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