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$4.00 / 1,000 transcripts

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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Transcripts for any YouTube video with timestamps, language selection, auto-generated caption fallback and video metadata (title, channel, duration, views). Paste URLs or IDs, get clean text and timed segments. Cheap and fast, no browser.

Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 transcripts

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Clearrun Data

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

39 minutes ago

Last modified

What you get

{
  "videoId": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "title": "Me at the zoo",
  "channel": "jawed",
  "durationSeconds": 19,
  "viewCount": 351829000,
  "language": "en",
  "isAutoGenerated": false,
  "availableLanguages": [{ "code": "en", "name": "English", "auto": false }],
  "wordCount": 47,
  "transcript": "All right, so here we are in front of the elephants ...",
  "segments": [{ "start": 0.0, "duration": 2.4, "text": "All right, so here we are" }, ...],
  "error": null
}

Input

Field	Default	Notes
`videos`	—	Watch, youtu.be, Shorts or embed URLs, or bare 11-character IDs
`language`	`en`	ISO code; falls back to the closest available track
`allowAutoGenerated`	`true`	Use YouTube's automatic captions if no manual transcript exists
`includeSegments`	`true`	Timed segments as well as plain text
`proxyConfiguration`	Apify datacenter	Blocked videos are retried through residential proxies automatically

Pricing

Pay per transcript delivered. Videos without captions, private or removed videos are free and recorded with an error explaining why, so you can filter them out.

Speed & cost

About 30–60 seconds for 100 results; a 100-result run costs roughly $0.40 in events plus about $0.01–0.05 of platform usage.

Typical uses

Feeding video content into summarisers, RAG pipelines and AI agents
Subtitles, quotes and research notes
Monitoring channels for keywords

Use from an AI agent

Available through the Apify MCP server: "Get the transcript of this YouTube video and summarise it."

Support

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the video URL and run ID. Issues are answered within one working day.

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