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YouTube Transcript Scraper | With Timestamps | No API Key

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Get timestamped YouTube transcripts and captions as clean JSON with segments, fullText and char count. No API key, no login. Feed video transcripts straight into RAG, LLMs and AI agents via Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP server.

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YouTube video URLs or IDs

videoUrls

Required

List of YouTube videos to fetch transcripts for. Accepts full watch URLs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...), youtu.be short links, /shorts/ URLs, /embed/ URLs, or a bare 11-character video ID, e.g. "dQw4w9WgXcQ".

Type:array

Preferred caption language

language

Optional

Two-letter language code for the caption track to prefer (e.g. 'en', 'es', 'hi', 'fr'). If a track in this language is not available, the actor falls back to the video's default/first available track.

Type:string

Default:en

Include timestamps

includeTimestamps

Optional

When enabled, each segment includes its start time and duration (in seconds). The joined fullText is always returned regardless of this setting.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Proxy configuration

proxy

Optional

Optional proxy. Apify Proxy (datacenter) is usually sufficient for the public YouTube caption endpoints. Use RESIDENTIAL only if you hit rate limits.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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