READY-TO-RUN WORKFLOW

Export a YouTube transcript for RAG or research

Extract a public video's full caption text, language details, optional timestamped segments, and useful source metadata without a YouTube API key.

BUILT FORAI builders, researchers, content teams, analysts, and automation developers

LIVE PRICING$0.00005 per run + $0.00001 per successful transcript

THE OUTCOME

A clean transcript row with the video title, channel, language, caption type, duration, views, source URL, and optional timestamped segments.

1
Open the Actor and run the prefilled one-video input unchanged.
2
Inspect the transcript, language, caption type, and source metadata.
3
Replace the sample with a public YouTube URL or 11-character video ID.
4
Enable timestamped segments or raise the video cap only after the first bounded result succeeds.

SAMPLE INPUT

{
  "urls": [
    "dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "preferredLanguages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "preferManual": true,
  "includeSegments": false,
  "maxVideos": 1
}

STRUCTURED OUTPUT

Video IDSource URLTitleChannelLanguageCaption typeDurationView countTranscriptTimestamped segments

COMMON QUESTIONS

No. It extracts caption tracks YouTube exposes publicly; it does not download media or generate speech-to-text.

No. Add public watch, Shorts, live, embed, youtu.be URLs, or raw 11-character video IDs.

Private, deleted, age- or region-restricted videos and videos without public captions cannot produce transcript rows.

START WITH A BOUNDED SAMPLE