📜 Best YouTube Transcripts Scraper

Best YouTube Transcripts Scraper is a powerful and easy-to-use web scraping tool built for extracting transcripts from YouTube videos. Whether you're analyzing content, indexing videos, or researching, this scraper makes getting YouTube subtitles simple.

This actor fetches transcripts (when available) from a list of YouTube video URLs. It works great for:

• 🧠 Researchers analyzing video content
• 📈 SEO teams indexing spoken words for better searchability
• 📰 Journalists looking to quickly reference quotes
• 🧑‍💻 Developers building tools powered by video transcripts
• 🤖 AI teams gathering training data from spoken content

⚠️ Note: Transcripts are only returned for videos where YouTube provides them. This includes both auto-generated and creator-supplied subtitles.

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💡 What can you scrape?

Using this scraper, you’ll be able to extract:

Field	Description
id	Id of the video
url	The input YouTube video URL
transcript_only_text	Full transcript text (if available)
transcript	Array of timestamped transcript segments
title	Title of the YouTube video

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🔧 How to use Best YouTube Transcripts Scraper

This actor is designed to be beginner-friendly. You don’t need coding knowledge to run it — just follow these steps:

1. Sign up or log in to your Apify account.
2. Open the Best YouTube Transcripts Scraper actor.
3. Add one or more YouTube video URLs to the input field.
4. Click the Start button and wait for the scraper to finish.
5. Export your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the dataset tab.

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📥 Input example

1{
2  "videoUrls": [
3    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6OlMPn5sI",
4    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7gfrTlr0Y"
5  ]
6}

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📤 Output example

1{
2  "id": "figrl0aOULs",
3  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=figrl0aOULs",
4  "thumbnail": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/figrl0aOULs/maxresdefault.jpg",
5  "transcript_only_text": "Every single time someone watches\nthis video, it helps feed someone in need. And since we get a lot of views, I brought a lot of people! Here you go. Thank you, friend. Yeah, no problem. If you're wondering how this works, every time someone\nwatches this whole video, including you right\nnow, money is generated. And as this video grows, that\nincreasing amount of money will feed an astonishing amount of people. Everybody eats. But that's not all it's going to do. Mr. Beast! You watching this video\nwill supply farmland, build massive kitchens, fill\nschools with food for their students, and save children from child labor. So, honestly, I'm glad you're here. There you go. 1500\npeople have now been fed. I'm very excited for the future. The meals you saw us\ngiving away are cost effective and jam-packed with nutrients and honestly, way healthier\nthan most meals in America. Jimmy, why does it feel like\nI'm... carrying the whole thing? Let's get to",
6  "transcript": [
7    {
8      "text": "Every single time someone watches\nthis video, it helps feed someone in need.",
9      "startMs": "0",
10      "endMs": "3437",
11      "startTimeText": "0:00"
12    },
13    {
14      "text": "And since we get a lot of views,",
15      "startMs": "3437",
16      "endMs": "4972",
17      "startTimeText": "0:03"
18    },
19    {
20      "text": "I brought a lot of people!",
21      "startMs": "5105",
22      "endMs": "6206",
23      "startTimeText": "0:05"
24    }
25  ],
26  "title": "Click This Video To Feed 1 Person"
27}

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💵 Pricing

This actor costs $2 per 1,000 transcripts scraped.

Use Apify’s free credits to test it out before scaling.

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🧩 Integrations

Connect this actor with:

• Clay
• Crew AI
• Zapier
• Make (Integromat)
• LangChain
• And more

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💬 Need help?

Email adrian@thewebscrapingguy.com with questions, feedback, or support requests. I'm happy to help.

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❓FAQ

Does it work with Shorts or Livestreams?

If YouTube provides a transcript for the video (including Shorts), it will be scraped. Livestreams and non-captioned videos will not return results.

Can I scrape in bulk?

Yes! Add as many video URLs as you like. The actor will loop through and collect transcripts for each one.

What formats can I export to?

JSON, CSV — all available via the Apify platform's built-in export tools.

Is it legal to scrape YouTube transcripts?

Transcripts are public data provided by YouTube.

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