YouTube Transcript & Captions Scraper

Pricing

Rating

Developer

Actor stats

Categories

Share

Extract transcripts, captions, and subtitles from any YouTube video. Supports auto-generated and manual captions in 100+ languages with multiple output formats.

Features

• Universal Transcript Extraction: Works with any YouTube video that has captions enabled
• 100+ Languages: Supports all languages available on YouTube
• Auto-Generated Fallback: Falls back to YouTube's auto-generated captions when manual captions unavailable
• Translation: Translate transcripts to any supported language
• Multiple Output Formats: Plain text, timestamped, SRT, VTT, or JSON
• Video Metadata: Optional extraction of title, channel, views, duration
• Batch Processing: Process multiple videos in a single run
• High Success Rate: API-based extraction (no browser needed)

Use Cases

• Content Repurposing: Turn video content into blog posts, articles, or social media
• SEO Optimization: Extract text for video descriptions and metadata
• Accessibility: Generate captions for accessibility compliance
• AI Training Data: Build datasets from YouTube content
• Research: Analyze video content at scale
• Translation: Get transcripts in your preferred language
• Note Taking: Quickly extract key points from educational videos

Input

{
"videoUrls":[
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw",
"dQw4w9WgXcQ"
],
"preferredLanguages":["en","en-US"],
"includeAutoGenerated":true,
"outputFormat":"text",
"includeVideoMetadata":true,
"translateTo":null,
"maxVideos":0
}

Input Fields

Supported URL Formats

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
• https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
• https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID
• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
• VIDEO_ID (direct 11-character ID)

Output

{
"video_id":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"success":true,
"transcript_text":"We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I...",
"formatted_transcript":"We're no strangers to love. You know the rules...",
"output_format":"text",
"language":"English",
"language_code":"en",
"is_auto_generated":false,
"is_translated":false,
"available_languages":["en","es","fr","de","ja"],
"word_count":423,
"character_count":2156,
"segment_count":87,
"duration_seconds":212.5,
"title":"Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
"channel_name":"Rick Astley",
"view_count":1400000000,
"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
"error":null,
"extraction_time_ms":1234
}

Output Fields

Output Formats

Language Codes

Common language codes: en, en-US, es, fr, de, it, pt, ja, ko, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, ru, ar, hi

For a full list, see YouTube's supported languages.

Error Handling

The scraper handles various error conditions gracefully:

Limitations

• Captions Required: Cannot extract from videos without captions
• Rate Limits: YouTube may rate-limit excessive requests
• Private Videos: Cannot access private or unlisted videos without authorization
• Live Streams: May not work with ongoing live streams

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 transcripts extracted.

Examples

Extract single video transcript

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

Get Spanish transcript with translation

{
"videoUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],
"preferredLanguages":["es"],
"translateTo":"en"
}

Generate SRT subtitles

{
"videoUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],
"outputFormat":"srt"
}

Batch process without metadata

{
"videoUrls":["VIDEO_ID_1","VIDEO_ID_2","VIDEO_ID_3"],
"includeVideoMetadata":false,
"maxVideos":100
}

Related actors

• instagram-intelligence-scraper — Instagram posts + emails
• tiktok-profile-scraper — TikTok profile stats
• tiktok-comments-scraper — TikTok comments
• reddit-scraper — Reddit posts + comments

Support

For questions or issues, contact the developer or open an issue in the repository.