Scrape YouTube Transcripts for RAG & LLM Training
No YouTube API key needed: the captions, an MP3 of the audio and the metadata for a list of video links, ready for a RAG or fine-tuning pipeline.
What this run is set to
The settings saved on this example. Every one of them is editable once you open it on Apify — these are a starting point, not a limit.
| Setting | Value | What it does |
|---|---|---|
YouTube URLs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1vTLU7s40 | One or more YouTube video links: watch, Shorts, youtu.be, live, embed or mobile links, or bare video ids. |
Download subtitles | on | Also fetch subtitles/auto-captions as SRT. |
Subtitle languages | en | Comma-separated subtitle language codes (e.g. en,es). |
Audio only (MP3) | on | Extract audio as MP3 instead of video. |
Include metadata | on | Return title, channel, duration, views, etc. |
Max quality | audio | Video quality to download, measured on the short side of the picture - 720 means 1280x720 for landscape video and 720x1280. |
Pricing
$0.005 per megabyte downloaded = $5 per 1,000
| You are charged for | When | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Megabyte downloaded | Each 1 MB of media actually delivered. Failed or skipped downloads are not charged. | $0.005 |
Pay-per-event pricing: you are billed per result, not per subscription. Billing is handled by Apify on your own account. These are the live Apify store prices, in effect since 2026-08-17, and they are what you are actually charged.
What you get
A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:
channeldurationSecondsfileSizeBytesformatmediaKeymediaUrlresolutiontitleuploadDateurlviewCountExport every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.
More use cases for YouTube Video & Audio Downloader
- Try
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Built on YouTube Video & Audio Downloader — every input, output field, price and the full how-to are on the tool page.
Where this tool sits
- Categories
- YouTube & Creator Tools
- Platforms
- YouTube