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No API key, no cookies, no video download.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "ur270IGWPl2AjtU3X" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/ntriqpro~youtube-transcript-bulk/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-ntriqpro-youtube-transcript-bulk", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/ntriqpro~youtube-transcript-bulk/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-ntriqpro-youtube-transcript-bulk", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/ntriqpro~youtube-transcript-bulk/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-ntriqpro-youtube-transcript-bulk", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "disclaimerAck" ], "properties": { "videoUrls": { "title": "Video URLs or IDs", "maxItems": 200, "type": "array", "description": "Up to 200 YouTube video URLs (watch, shorts, youtu.be, embed, live) or bare 11-character video IDs. Combine with a channel, a playlist or a dataset below; duplicates are removed. Free plan: each run returns up to 25 results. Paid Apify plans receive the full result set.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "channelUrl": { "title": "Channel URL (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "A YouTube channel URL such as https://www.youtube.com/@Apify. Its newest uploads are added to the list, up to Max videos from a channel or playlist. Listing uses yt-dlp metadata only; no media is downloaded." }, "playlistUrl": { "title": "Playlist URL (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "A YouTube playlist URL such as https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL.... Its videos are added to the list, up to Max videos from a channel or playlist." }, "maxVideos": { "title": "Max videos from a channel or playlist", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 200, "type": "integer", "description": "How many videos to take from the channel and from the playlist (each). The whole run is capped at 200 videos." }, "datasetId": { "title": "Dataset ID with video URLs (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "ID of an Apify dataset produced by another Actor (for example a YouTube channel or search scraper). Video IDs are read from its url, videoUrl, link, videoId or id fields." }, "languages": { "title": "Languages (priority order)", "type": "array", "description": "BCP-47 language codes in order of preference, e.g. [\"en\", \"en-US\", \"ko\"]. For each video the first matching manually created track wins, then the first matching auto-generated track, then an auto-translation into the first code.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "allowAutoGenerated": { "title": "Allow auto-generated captions", "type": "boolean", "description": "Use YouTube's automatic speech-recognition captions when no manually created track matches. Rows carry isAutoGenerated so you can tell them apart." }, "allowTranslated": { "title": "Allow auto-translated captions", "type": "boolean", "description": "When no track matches any requested language, translate an existing track into the first requested language using YouTube's own translation. Rows carry isTranslated." }, "fallbackToAnyLanguage": { "title": "Fall back to the video's own language", "type": "boolean", "description": "When nothing matches the requested languages (and translation is unavailable or throttled), return the caption track the video does have, in its original language. Rows carry matchedRequestedLanguage=false so you can filter them." }, "outputFormat": { "title": "Output format", "enum": [ "both", "fulltext", "segments" ], "type": "string", "description": "both = fullText and timestamped segments on every row; fulltext = only the plain text; segments = only the [{start, dur, text}] array." }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "YouTube blocks almost every datacenter and cloud IP (measured 2026-09-03: 1 of 8 videos succeeded through datacenter proxies, 3 of 3 through residential). Keep the default Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy unless you know your own proxies are clean." }, "disclaimerAck": { "title": "I understand this is an unofficial tool", "type": "boolean", "description": "This Actor is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. It reads only public caption tracks and never downloads video or audio. Transcripts are copyrighted works: you are the data controller (Apify Standard Actor Contract §2.2, §5.2.1) and responsible for complying with YouTube's Terms of Service and applicable law in how you use them." } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }