YouTube Transcript Scraper: Merged Transcript Export

YouTube Transcript Scraper extracts full transcripts from public YouTube videos with ease. Quickly retrieve spoken content for research, summarization, SEO, or accessibility—just enter a video URL and get clean, structured text. No login or API key required.

liveasyncunknown~30s typical

SOCIAL_MEDIAVIDEOS

$0.0020

per result + $0.01 call

plus $0.001 platform fee per run

Free actor: you pay compute at $0.002 per result plus $0.01 per run

Bring your own Apify Store key: provider portion drops to $0.

Provider Upstream docs

$Set up https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/SKILL.md, then use Cracked to run apify /scraper-engine/youtube-transcript-scraper for me.

Input

Field	Type	Description
discoveryMode	string (urls \| channel \| playlist \| search)	'urls' = use the YouTube Video URLs list below (default, base behavior). 'channel' = expand each entry in Container URLs into that channel's videos. 'playlist' = expand each entry in Container URLs into that playlist's videos. 'search' = expand each entry in Search Queries into matching videos. Default: urls. default "urls"
containerUrls	array	Used when discoveryMode is 'channel' or 'playlist'. Add one or more channel URLs (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@channelname) or playlist URLs (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...). Each is expanded to its member videos, capped by Max Videos Per Container. default []
searchQueries	array	Used when discoveryMode is 'search'. Add one or more keyword/search queries (e.g. 'apify web scraping tutorial'). Each query is expanded into matching videos, capped by Max Videos Per Container. default []
maxVideosPerContainer	integer	Caps how many videos are expanded from EACH channel/playlist/search query (parents are the containers, not counted against this; this bounds the children per container). Example: 2 container URLs + maxVideosPerContainer=10 -> up to 20 videos total. Default is 10. default 10
sortBy	string (date \| popularity)	Order videos are expanded in for channel/search discovery before filters/cap are applied. 'date' = most recent first. 'popularity' = most viewed first. Playlists keep their own owner-defined order for 'date' and are re-sorted locally for 'popularity'. Default: date. default "date"
minDurationSeconds	integer	Only applies to discovery modes (channel/playlist/search) — direct URL mode ignores this. Skip discovered videos shorter than this many seconds. 0 = no minimum. Default: 0. default 0
maxDurationSeconds	integer	Only applies to discovery modes (channel/playlist/search). Skip discovered videos longer than this many seconds. 0 = no maximum. Default: 0. default 0
minViews	integer	Only applies to discovery modes (channel/playlist/search). Skip discovered videos with fewer views than this. 0 = no minimum. Default: 0. default 0
publishedAfter	string	Only applies to discovery modes (channel/playlist/search). Only keep discovered videos published after this date. Accepts an absolute date (e.g. 2024-01-01) or a relative window (e.g. '30 days', '6 months'). Leave blank for no date filter. default ""
directVideoUrls	array	Used when discoveryMode is 'urls' (default). Add one or more YouTube links to extract transcripts from directly. Each completed video appears in your dataset automatically. (Also accepts the base actor's `urls` field name for backward compatibility.) ⚡ default []
includeAutoGeneratedCaptions	boolean	Include YouTube's auto-generated English captions when a manually-created English transcript isn't available. Default is true. (Also accepts the base field name `includeEnglishAG`.)
includeNonEnglishTranscripts	boolean	Include transcripts in languages other than English. Default is false. (Also accepts the base field name `includeNonEnglish`.)
transcriptOutputFormat	string (timestamp \| text)	Choose transcript style: 'timestamp' includes time markers, while 'text' returns clean plain text. Default is 'text'. (Also accepts the base field name `outputFormat`.)
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional proxy setup for stable access. Uses Apify Residential Proxy by default when needed. default {}

Call it

curl

curl https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"provider":"apify","endpoint":"/scraper-engine/youtube-transcript-scraper","input":{"discoveryMode":"urls","containerUrls":[],"searchQueries":[],"maxVideosPerContainer":10,"sortBy":"date","minDurationSeconds":0,"maxDurationSeconds":0,"minViews":0,"publishedAfter":"","directVideoUrls":[],"proxyConfiguration":{}},"wait":false}'

poll

curl "https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/v1/runs/<runId>?wait=30" -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..."

cli

npx cracked-ai run -p apify -e /scraper-engine/youtube-transcript-scraper -i '{"discoveryMode":"urls","containerUrls":[],"searchQueries":[],"maxVideosPerContainer":10,"sortBy":"date","minDurationSeconds":0,"maxDurationSeconds":0,"minViews":0,"publishedAfter":"","directVideoUrls":[],"proxyConfiguration":{}}' -w 120

mcp

run_tool({ provider: "apify", endpoint: "/scraper-engine/youtube-transcript-scraper", input: {"discoveryMode":"urls","containerUrls":[],"searchQueries":[],"maxVideosPerContainer":10,"sortBy":"date","minDurationSeconds":0,"maxDurationSeconds":0,"minViews":0,"publishedAfter":"","directVideoUrls":[],"proxyConfiguration":{}}, wait: false })

Try it

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