YouTube Transcript Scraper
Every word, with timestamps.
Paste video links or IDs, or search by keyword, and get each video's transcript as full text and timestamped segments, ready for notes, research, search or AI.
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Transcripts for one video or a thousand
Add video links (watch, youtu.be, Shorts, embed or live) or 11-character IDs, or enter keywords to take the top videos of each search, with an option to skip Shorts. Each video comes back with its full transcript text, timestamped segments, caption language, title and channel. Videos without captions, and missing or private videos, get a clear status row and are never charged. An optional fast mode uses a priority queue for quicker results.
- Full text
- Timestamped segments
- Caption language
- Title and channel
- Keyword search
- Shorts filter
- Long videos
- Fast mode
Built for research and AI
- Creators and editors turning videos into posts, notes and show notes
- Researchers and analysts reading what videos say at scale
- Developers feeding transcripts into search, RAG and AI agents
- Agents, through the Apify API or MCP
Pay only for transcripts you get
One video transcript delivered.
Charged instead of the standard price when fast mode is on.
No start fee. Videos without captions are free.
Prices are set on the Apify Store. Runs and billing are handled by Apify under its terms and privacy policy. To get the transcripts, the video IDs and keywords you enter are sent to our data provider, DataForSEO.
Where the data comes from
Transcripts and keyword searches come from DataForSEO's licensed YouTube data, which reads the public captions of each video. Video titles and channel names come from YouTube's public oEmbed endpoint, which receives only the video ID. The tool does not log in anywhere. See our privacy policy.
YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC, named only for description. VNCNT Labs is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Google, YouTube, DataForSEO or Apify.
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