YouTube Channel Transcripts - whole channel to RAG
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$7.50 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube Channel Transcripts - whole channel to RAG
Give it a YouTube channel and get every video's transcript as RAG-ready chunks in one run. Lists the channel, fetches all captions (JSON, text, SRT, VTT, or chunked). No API key, pay per transcript.
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YouTube Channel Transcripts β whole channel to RAG in one run
YouTube Channel Transcripts for developers and AI pipelines β give it a channel and get every video's transcript back as RAG-ready chunks (or plain text, SRT, VTT) in a single run. No API key, no quotas, no chaining tools together. Point it at a channel, get a knowledge base out.
This does in one step what normally takes two: it lists the whole channel, then fetches every caption track through a hosted residential-proxy + uptime layer that handles YouTube's 2026 PoToken wall β the thing that makes free libraries return nothing.
Why this exists
Building RAG over a creator's catalog means: enumerate every video in the channel, then pull each transcript, then chunk it for embeddings. That's a multi-step pipeline most people stitch together by hand. This actor is the whole pipeline β channel in β chunked transcripts out β so an AI agent or a LangChain/LlamaIndex job can ingest an entire channel with one call.
What you get (per video)
channelTitle,videoId,url,title,publishedText,viewCount,durationSecondstextβ the full transcript as clean textchunksβ RAG-ready overlapping chunks, each withstartSeconds,endSeconds, and a clickabledeepLinkinto the video at that timestamp- Optional
segments(timestamped),srt,vtt
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
channels | array | Required. @handles, channel URLs, or UC⦠ids. |
maxVideosPerChannel | integer | Newest N videos per channel (default 50). |
languages | array | Preferred caption languages (default ["en"]). |
ragChunking | boolean | Emit RAG chunks (default true). |
chunkMaxChars / chunkOverlapChars | integer | Chunk sizing. |
Use cases
- RAG / LLM ingestion β turn a creator's entire catalog into an embeddable knowledge base in one call
- Agent workflows β "summarize everything channel X has said about Y"
- Research & monitoring β full-text search across a channel's spoken content
- Dataset building β transcript corpora per channel
Pricing
Pay per transcript delivered. Listing the channel is free; videos with no captions or that fail are skipped and never billed. No subscription, no API key. See the Pricing tab for the current rate.
Related actors
- YouTube Transcript Scraper β transcripts for specific video URLs
- YouTube Channel Videos Scraper β just the video list (no transcripts)
- YouTube Comments Scraper β audience data
FAQ
- Do I need a YouTube API key? No β no key, no OAuth, no quota.
- Big channels? Set
maxVideosPerChannel; it pages through and transcribes the newest N. - No-caption videos? Skipped for free; you only pay for transcripts actually delivered.
- Legal? It accesses publicly available data. You are responsible for complying with YouTube's Terms of Service and applicable law in your use of the output.
