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Transcribe YouTube Videos Without Captions (AI)
YouTube video has no captions or subtitles? Turn on AI transcription and get the spoken words as text anyway, with timestamps, using Whisper AI. Captions are used whenever they exist, so you only pay for AI when it is needed. Billed per minute of audio, only when a transcript is delivered.
YouTube Transcript & Subtitles API – AI, Channels, Shortstubetext/youtube-transcript-fast
Status
Title
Channel
Published
+8 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
YouTube URLs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hZfmOvSXv8
Include timestamped text:true
Include SRT subtitles:false
AI transcription for videos without captions:true
Max video length for AI (minutes):60
Output fields
Status
Title
Channel
Published
Lang
Auto
Words
Duration (s)
Views
URL
Transcript
Error
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the YouTube Transcript & Subtitles API – AI, Channels, Shorts.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
