YouTube Transcript Scraper

Apify

Extract timestamped YouTube captions from video IDs or URLs.

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Job: Search YouTube videos and channels
Current price: $0.0056/result
Availability: Ready to run

Tool details

About this tool

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

Inputs and outputs

Input

inputobject · required

Provider-specific public source, URL or search criteria.

maxItemsinteger · optional

Maximum number of records to return.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 50

Output

transcript_countnumber

Returned transcript count value.

transcriptsarray

Returned transcripts value.

Example request and output

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Request

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

Output

{
  "transcripts": [
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "transcript_count": 1
}

Errors and limitations

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