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YouTube Transcript | No API Key

Pull YouTube transcripts and subtitles via the InnerTube player API. Timed segments plus full text. No API key required. Pay per result.

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YouTube Transcript & Subtitle Scraper

Extract complete transcripts and subtitles from public YouTube videos. The Actor uses YouTube's public watch pages and caption tracks, so it requires no YouTube API key, paid proxy, or external transcript service.

Use the output for content analysis, accessibility workflows, research, search indexes, summaries, translations, and AI or RAG pipelines. Manual captions are preferred over auto-generated captions when both are available.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`videoUrls`	string[]	Required	YouTube watch, Shorts, embed, live, or youtu.be video URLs.
`language`	string	`"en"`	Preferred YouTube caption language code. Falls back to the first available track, preferring manual captions.
`includeTimestamps`	boolean	`true`	Include timestamped caption segments. Set to `false` for transcript-only output.

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "includeTimestamps": true
}

Output

Each video with an available, readable caption track produces one dataset record. Videos without captions are logged and skipped.

{
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "language": "en",
  "isAutoGenerated": false,
  "segments": [
    {
      "text": "We're no strangers to love",
      "start": 18.64,
      "duration": 3.24
    }
  ],
  "transcriptText": "We're no strangers to love ...",
  "wordCount": 487
}

When includeTimestamps is false, the segments field is omitted. One result pay-per-event charge is emitted for every stored record.

Notes

Public videos may have no captions or may restrict caption access by region, age, or consent state.
If the preferred language is unavailable, the Actor returns another available track and reports its actual language code.
If a web caption URL has expired or returns an empty response, the Actor refreshes it through YouTube's free public player endpoint.
Requests use a 12-second timeout, two retries with backoff, and process up to five videos concurrently.

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