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YouTube Transcript Actor

📌 Introduction

🎯 What is this actor?

The YouTube Transcript Actor is a powerful tool designed to extract transcripts from YouTube videos. It takes a YouTube video URL as input and returns the transcript in a structured format.

🚀 Key Features

• Extract transcripts from YouTube videos
• Support for multiple languages
• Option to include timestamps
• Clean text formatting
• JSON output for easy integration

🔍 Use Cases

• Content creators can generate subtitles for their videos
• Researchers can perform sentiment analysis or text processing on video transcripts
• Accessibility advocates can make video content more accessible

📥 Inputs

📝 What does the actor take in?

The YouTube Transcript Actor accepts the following inputs:

• startUrls (required): A list of YouTube video URLs to extract transcripts from.
• includeTimestamps (optional): A toggle to include timestamps in the output (Yes/No).

🔒 Restrictions

• You must provide a valid YouTube URL.
• Some videos do not have transcripts available (e.g., live streams, private videos).

✅ Example Input

{
"startUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPMJOaD-eZk"],
"includeTimestamps":"Yes"
}

📤 Outputs

📝 What does the actor return?

The actor produces:

• A clean transcript (default: plain text)
• Timestamps (optional)
• JSON format for structured data processing

⚠️ Restrictions

• If a video has no transcript available, the result will be null.

✅ Example Outputs

🔹 Without Timestamps (includeTimestamps: "No")

{
"transcript":"We have skewed the lines. We are no longer raising women in our culture..."
}

🔹 With Timestamps (includeTimestamps: "Yes")

{
"transcript":[
{"timestamp":"0:01","text":"We've skewed the lines."},
{
"timestamp":"0:04",
"text":"We are no longer raising women in our culture."
}
]
}

⚙️ How to Use

🏁 Running the Actor

1. Log in or Sign up on Apify.
2. Create a new task and select "YouTube Transcript Actor".
3. Enter the YouTube video URL(s) in the startUrls field.
4. Choose whether to include timestamps (includeTimestamps: "Yes" or "No").
5. Start the task and receive your transcript in JSON format.

📊 Interpreting Results

• If timestamps are enabled, the transcript is returned as an array of objects ([{ timestamp, text }]).
• If timestamps are disabled, the transcript is returned as plain text.

🛠️ Troubleshooting

❌ Common Issues & Fixes

🔗 Additional Resources

• Alternative YouTube Transcript Actor
• Apify Platform
• Check out my profile

🙌 Acknowledgments

This actor was built with the support of the Apify community and the YouTube API. Special thanks to all contributors! 🎉