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YouTube Transcript Scraper

Apify

Extract timestamped YouTube captions from video IDs or URLs.

Capability
YouTube content research
Current price
$0.0056/result
Availability
Ready to run
Last accepted verification

What this API does

Extract available public YouTube captions as time-coded transcript segments for one video.

Agents select this operation with tool ID apify.streamers-youtube-scraper-transcript-preset, then inspect its current executable contract before a run.

Public input and output shape

Input

inputobject · required

Provider-specific public source, URL or search criteria.

maxItemsinteger · optional

Maximum number of records to return.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 50

Output

languagestring

Returned language value.

segmentsarray

Returned segments value.

successboolean

Returned success value.

video_idstring

Returned video id value.

Example request and output

This reviewed worked example is shared with inspect. Inspect also returns the current executable schema and price estimate before a paid run.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "apify.streamers-youtube-scraper-transcript-preset",
  "input": {
    "input": {
      "videoId": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
      "metadata": true
    },
    "maxItems": 1
  }
}

Output

{
  "success": true,
  "language": "en",
  "segments": [
    {
      "text": "All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants",
      "start_seconds": 1.2,
      "duration_seconds": 2.16
    }
  ],
  "video_id": "jNQXAC9IVRw"
}
Teaching errors and limitations

No listing-specific teaching errors are published. Inspect the tool before running to receive the current schema and error guidance.

Updated
18 August 2026

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