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YouTube Transcript Scraper

A high-performance scraper to extract transcripts and subtitles directly from YouTube videos.

ℹ️ This scrapes public YouTube transcripts — no authentication required. It uses lightweight HTTP requests instead of heavy browser automation for maximum speed.

Features

• Batch URL Processing: Extract transcripts from multiple YouTube videos in a single run.
• Timestamp Mode: Optionally include timestamps indicating exactly when each spoken segment occurs.
• Smart Fallback Mechanisms: Automatically tries multiple internal YouTube APIs (InnerTube, then HTML scraping fallback) for maximum reliability.
• Clean Text Parsing: Cleanly handles complex XML subtitle structures and HTML entities to return pure text.
• High Performance Execution: Runs fully headless via pure HTTP GET/POST requests, vastly outperforming Puppeteer approaches.
• Proxy Support: Integrates Apify Proxies seamlessly via Undici to bypass region or rate-limit blocks.

Input Parameters

Output

Data is stored in the default dataset in JSON format.

Example: Plain Text Mode (includeTimestamps="No")

{
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DwXeAtWrs",
"transcript":"When the Romans officially pulled out of Britain in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, they left in their wake a patchwork of Brethonic and Romano British kingdoms scattered throughout [music] the island. Just like on the mainland, however, it didn't take long for warlike peoples on the peripheries to move in and take",
"error":null
}

Example: With Timestamps (includeTimestamps="Yes")

{
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DwXeAtWrs",
"transcript":[
{
"timestamp":"0:02",
"text":"When the Romans officially pulled out of"
},
{
"timestamp":"0:04",
"text":"Britain in the fourth and fifth"
},
{
"timestamp":"0:06",
"text":"centuries AD,"
},
{
"timestamp":"0:09",
"text":"they left in their wake a patchwork of"
},
{
"timestamp":"0:12",
"text":"Brethonic and Romano British kingdoms"
},
{
"timestamp":"0:16",
"text":"scattered throughout [music] the island."
},
{
"timestamp":"0:21",
"text":"Just like on the mainland, however, it"
},
{
"timestamp":"0:23",
"text":"didn't take long for warlike peoples on"
},
{
"timestamp":"0:26",
"text":"the peripheries to move in and take"
}
],
"error":null
}