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📝 YouTube Transcript with Translation (VidScribe)

Extract subtitles and captions from any YouTube video in seconds. Optionally translate them into 30 languages using AI.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Works with any YouTube video — regular videos, Shorts, shared links
• 📝 Manual & auto-generated captions — grabs whichever is available
• 🌍 Translation — translate transcripts into 30 languages
• 📦 Multiple output formats — JSON (structured), plain text, or SRT subtitles
• ⚡ Fast — powered by yt-dlp for reliable extraction
• 🔒 Residential proxy — bypasses YouTube's datacenter IP blocks

🚀 How to use

1. Paste one or more YouTube video URLs
2. Choose your preferred caption language (or let it auto-detect)
3. Optionally enable translation and pick a target language
4. Pick your output format (JSON, text, or SRT)
5. Run!

📊 Output example

{
"videoId":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"videoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title":"Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
"captionLanguage":"en",
"captionType":"auto",
"segmentCount":68,
"durationSeconds":212,
"fullText":"We're no strangers to love...",
"translatedTo":"Spanish",
"translatedFullText":"No somos extraños al amor..."
}

🌐 Supported translation languages

English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Czech, Romanian, Greek, Hebrew, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Malay

💡 Use cases

• Content creators — repurpose video content into blog posts
• Researchers — extract spoken content for analysis
• Developers — build on top of YouTube transcript data
• Students — get transcripts for studying and note-taking
• Translators — get a first draft translation instantly

⚙️ Proxy

YouTube blocks requests from datacenter IPs. This actor uses a residential proxy to ensure reliable extraction. You can also provide your own proxy URL in the advanced settings.

🔑 Translation

Translation cost is included in the per-run price — you don't need to provide your own API key.

📄 License

MIT