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YouTube Transcript Extractor - videos, playlists, channels

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Get timestamped YouTube transcripts for videos, playlists and channels. Manual and auto captions, any language, optional RAG chunks. Pay only for transcripts delivered.

Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 transcript delivereds

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Tyr Xargaar

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YouTube Transcript Extractor: videos, playlists and channels

Get the transcript of any YouTube video, or of a whole playlist or channel, as clean JSON. You pay only for transcripts that are actually delivered. Videos without captions, private videos and errors are free.

What you get per video

Title, channel, duration, views, video ID and URL
Language and whether the captions are manual or auto-generated
Full transcript text
Timestamped segments (start, duration, text), optional
Optional RAG chunks of about N words with start timestamps, ready for embeddings

Input

YouTube URLs: video, youtu.be, shorts, playlist or channel (https://www.youtube.com/@name/videos) links
Preferred languages: codes in order, for example en, he, es. Manual captions are preferred over auto-generated ones in the same language.
Max videos per playlist/channel
RAG chunk size: words per chunk, 0 to turn off

Example output

{
  "videoId": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "title": "Me at the zoo",
  "channel": "jawed",
  "language": "en",
  "isAutoGenerated": false,
  "wordCount": 39,
  "status": "OK",
  "text": "All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants ...",
  "segments": [{"start": 1.2, "duration": 2.16, "timestamp": "00:00:01", "text": "All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants"}]
}

Pricing

Pay per event: one charge per transcript delivered. Residential proxy cost is included.

Notes

Only public videos with captions are supported. This Actor reads the captions YouTube already publishes. It does not transcribe audio.

Example input

{"startUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"],"languages":["en"],"chunkWords":200}

How to use it

Apify Console: open the Actor, fill the input form, press Start, then download JSON, CSV or Excel from the Storage tab.
API and Python: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("xargaar_tools/youtube-transcript-extractor-batch").call(run_input=...) and read the dataset items.
No-code: connect it to Make, n8n, Zapier or Google Sheets with the Apify integrations.
Scheduling: run it hourly, daily or weekly from the Schedules page.
AI agents: works as a tool through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or login? No. Only an Apify account. What does it cost? Only the per-result price above. You are never charged for results that were not delivered. Something is missing or broken. Open an issue on the Actor page with the input you used and I will look at it.

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