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YouTube Transcript & Caption API

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Reliable YouTube transcripts with timestamps, language fallback, publish-date metadata, SRT/VTT export, retries, and optional proxy support.

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Rosario Vitale

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Videos

YouTube URLs or video IDs

videoUrls

Required

YouTube watch, youtu.be, Shorts, Live, Embed URLs, or raw 11-character video IDs. Maximum 100 per run.

Type:array

Min. items:1

Max. items:100

Default:

[
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
]

Preferred languages

languages

Optional

Ordered language preferences such as en, it, es. Human captions are preferred unless Prefer auto-generated is enabled.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "en"
]

Fallback to any available language

fallbackToAnyLanguage

Optional

If none of the preferred languages exist, use another available transcript instead of failing.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Prefer auto-generated captions

preferAutoGenerated

Optional

Prefer YouTube ASR captions over manually created captions when both are available.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Translate transcript to

translateTo

Optional

Optional YouTube translation target language code such as en, it, es, fr. Leave blank for no translation.

Type:string

Default:

Include timestamped segments

includeSegments

Optional

Include each caption segment with start time and duration.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include video metadata

includeMetadata

Optional

Fetch title, channel, thumbnail, duration, view count and publish/upload date when YouTube exposes them.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include SRT

includeSrt

Optional

Return the transcript as an SRT subtitle string.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include WebVTT

includeVtt

Optional

Return the transcript as a WebVTT subtitle string.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Preserve supported formatting

preserveFormatting

Optional

Preserve supported YouTube caption HTML formatting where available.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Per-video timeout

requestTimeoutSecs

Optional

Maximum time allowed for a single transcript attempt.

Type:integer

Minimum:5

Maximum:90

Default:25

Retries

retries

Optional

Retry temporary failures with backoff. Proxy sessions rotate between attempts when proxying is enabled.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5

Default:2

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify Proxy is enabled by default for cloud reliability. Disable it for direct access or supply custom proxy servers.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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