Get YouTube Transcript

This Apify Actor extracts full transcripts (with timestamps) and metadata from YouTube videos, including title, description, upload date, views, likes, channel info, and duration

liveverifiedasyncdegraded · 801ms~30s typical

youtubetranscriptsubtitles

$0.0020

per result + $0.01 call

plus $0.001 platform fee per run

Usage-based actor: event charges passed through at cost plus 25%

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 /starvibe/youtube-video-transcript for me.

Input

Field	Type	Description
youtube_url	string	Enter a valid YouTube video URL (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=video_id, https://youtu.be/video_id, or https://www.youtube.com/shorts/video_id). Use this for fetching a single video, paired with 'language' for transcript. Do not combine with channel filtering fields.
language	string	Language of the subtitles in ISO 639-1 format, e.g., `en`, `fr`. Applicable to both youtube_url and channel_url. Leave blank for default language.
channel_url	string	Enter a valid YouTube channel URL (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or https://www.youtube.com/@channelhandle). Use this to fetch videos from the channel, paired with 'max_videos', 'start_date', and 'end_date' for limiting and filtering results.
max_videos	integer	Maximum number of videos to fetch from the channel (optional, default: 10, range: 1 to 200). Only applicable and used with channel_url; ignored for youtube_url. Combine with start_date/end_date for filtered results. default 10
start_date	string	Start date for filtering videos by upload date (format: YYYY-MM-DD or ISO 8601, optional). Only applicable and used with channel_url; ignored for youtube_url. Videos uploaded on or after this date will be fetched.
end_date	string	End date for filtering videos by upload date (format: YYYY-MM-DD or ISO 8601, optional). Only applicable and used with channel_url; ignored for youtube_url. Videos uploaded on or before this date will be fetched.
include_transcript_text	boolean	Include the full transcript as a plain string without timestamps (transcript_text field). Default is off to reduce response size. Enable this if you need the transcript as a single text block. default false

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":"/starvibe/youtube-video-transcript","input":{"videoUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]},"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 /starvibe/youtube-video-transcript -i '{"videoUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]}' -w 120

mcp

run_tool({ provider: "apify", endpoint: "/starvibe/youtube-video-transcript", input: {"videoUrls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]}, wait: false })

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