# YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper (`fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-subtitles-scraper`) Actor Extract complete transcripts and subtitles from any YouTube video or Shorts. Download clean, structured text (JSON/CSV) ready for LLMs, AI agents, or content analysis. Fast, reliable, and easy to integrate via API. Pay only for successful results. - **URL**: https://apify.com/fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-subtitles-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [fastcrawler](https://apify.com/fastcrawler) (community) - **Categories:** AI, Social media, Videos - **Stats:** 421 total users, 7 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 37 bookmarks - **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars ## Pricing from $2.50 / 1,000 youtuberesults This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 🎥 YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Extractor: Video Text to JSON **YouTube Transcript Extractor** is a high-performance Apify actor designed to effortlessly scrape complete transcripts and subtitles from any YouTube video. Whether a video has built-in closed captions (CC) or lacks them entirely, this tool uses advanced fallback techniques to guarantee accurate, readable text extraction. Enjoy enterprise-grade reliability at an indie-friendly price: **$3 per 1,000 results | Pay-Per-Result only**. *** ### 🚀 Why use this Extractor? (Top Use Cases) This scraper outputs clean, highly structured data explicitly designed for seamless integration into modern workflows: - **🤖 AI Agents & LLMs:** Feed the unified `transcript_text` directly into Claude, OpenAI, or custom RAG pipelines without needing to parse complex timestamp arrays. - **📝 Content Repurposing:** Instantly turn long-form YouTube videos or Shorts into blog posts, Twitter threads, or newsletters. - **📊 NLP & Sentiment Analysis:** Extract large-scale video text data for market research, trend spotting, and accessibility compliance. *** ### ✨ Key Features - **🎯 Universal Extraction:** Retrieves existing transcripts or automatically generates subtitles for videos without built-in captions. - **🧠 AI-Ready Data Structure:** Returns both granular, timestamped subtitle arrays (perfect for video players) and a concatenated, flat string (perfect for LLM prompts). - **🌍 Multi-Language Support:** Automatically handles diverse languages to meet global content needs. - **⚡️ Developer-Friendly & Cost-Effective:** Zero base fees. You only pay for successful extractions. Export your results seamlessly to JSON, CSV, or Excel. *** ### 💡 Related Scrapers Supercharge your data extraction arsenal with our other highly-rated tools: - **[Free Twitter API](https://twitterapi.cheap) ｜ [Track X Influencers Tweets in Real-time](https://influencerradar.online)** - [Tweet(X) Fast\&Cheapest scraper | $0.35/1K | Pay-Per Result](https://apify.com/fastcrawler/tweet-x-fast-cheapest-scraper-0-35-1k-pay-per-result-2025) - [Twitter Reply Scraper | $0.4/1K Tweets | Pay-Per Result](https://apify.com/fastcrawler/twitter-reply-scraper-0-4-1k-tweets-pay-per-result-2025) - [Twitter KOL Discovery: Find Influencers Fast | $0.5/1k](https://apify.com/fastcrawler/twitter-kol-discovery-find-influencers-fast-0-5-1k-2025) - **[View all fastcrawler scrapers](https://apify.com/fastcrawler)** *** ### 🛠 How it Works (Input Configuration) Simply provide an array of YouTube URLs. The actor processes them concurrently for maximum speed. **Example Input:** ```json { "url": [ "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2f7cjXjKI)" ] } ``` *** ### 📊 Output Example The actor delivers deeply structured JSON. Notice the `transcript_text` field at the bottom—it provides the fully assembled text, saving you hours of string-manipulation code! ```json { "videoId": "vH2f7cjXjKI", "videoTitle": "Claude | Computer use for coding", "videoDescription": "", "videoDuration": "183", "thumbnailUrl": { "hqdefault": "[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/hqdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/hqdefault.jpg)", "maxresdefault": "[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/maxresdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH2f7cjXjKI/maxresdefault.jpg)" }, "transcripts": { "en": { "auto": [ { "start": "00:00:00", "end": "00:00:07", "text": "I'm Alex, I lead developer relations at Anthropic, and today I'm gonna be showing you a coding task with computer use." } ] } }, "language": { "code": "en", "name": "English" }, "transcript_text": "I'm Alex, I lead developer relations at Anthropic, and today I'm gonna be showing you a coding task with computer use. So we're gonna be showing Claude doing a website coding task by actually controlling my laptop..." } ``` *(Note: The transcript arrays have been shortened in this example for brevity, but the actual output contains the full timestamped timeline).* *** ### 📞 Contact and Feature Requests Need a custom solution or continuous monitoring? We've got you covered: - Support for second-level tweet monitoring - Real-time username change monitoring - Real-time follow activity monitoring Feel free to reach out for custom features or general support! 📧 Email: fastcrawler9@gmail.com | 💬 [Telegram](https://t.me/+MUMR3PKOoVVjNzE9) | 👾 [Discord](https://discord.gg/s4jyupzaWu) ```` # Actor input Schema ## `urls` (type: `array`): Youtube URLs. Paste the URLs and get the results immediately. ## Actor input object example ```json { "urls": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCp1BmME6QA" ] } ```` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "urls": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCp1BmME6QA" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-subtitles-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCp1BmME6QA"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-subtitles-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "urls": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCp1BmME6QA" ] }' | apify call fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-subtitles-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fastcrawler/youtube-transcript-subtitles-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/DbEvJZcuWFIZVIfVU/builds/8w6kyDDkW98gtNavb/openapi.json