# Get the transcript of a YouTube video

**Use case:** 

Ready-to-run example: paste a YouTube URL and get the full transcript as clean text, with chapter markers, ready for an LLM.

## Input

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"
  ],
  "allLanguages": false,
  "includeShorts": false,
  "maxVideosPerSource": 100,
  "includeChapters": true,
  "formats": [],
  "onlyNewVideos": false,
  "stateLabel": "default",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "videoId": {
    "label": "Video ID",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "channel": {
    "label": "Channel",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "channelId": {
    "label": "Channel id",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "uploadDate": {
    "label": "Uploaded",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "durationSeconds": {
    "label": "Duration (s)",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "Language",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "matchedLanguageTag": {
    "label": "Matched language tag",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isAutoGenerated": {
    "label": "Auto-generated",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "availableLanguages": {
    "label": "Available languages",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "sourceUrls": {
    "label": "Source urls",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "sourcePosition": {
    "label": "Source position",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "segments": {
    "label": "Segments",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "chapters": {
    "label": "Chapters",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "plainText": {
    "label": "Plain text",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "srt": {
    "label": "Srt",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "vtt": {
    "label": "Vtt",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [YouTube Transcript Scraper — RAG-Ready](https://apify.com/vonsensey/youtube-transcript-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/vonsensey/youtube-transcript-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).