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

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 check its current inputs and price before a run.

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

Inspect returns this reviewed example, its estimated cost and the current input schema. Run calculates the estimate for your actual input.

Request

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

Output

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Get started

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{
  "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.