Video & Audio Transcriber

Transcribe any video, audio or podcast URL to text: full transcript with timestamped segments plus SRT/VTT subtitles, 99+ languages auto-detected. Works on YouTube and TikTok links, podcast RSS feeds and direct media files with no API key needed.

Video & Audio Transcriber on Apify →

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🚀 How to use this actor

💚 $5 free Apify credits — every month

No credit card required. No commitment. Cancel anytime.

👉 Sign up free on Apify →

1. Click sign up — pick GitHub, Google, or email; takes ~30 seconds
2. Open this actor — input is pre-filled with a working example
3. Click Start — export results as JSON, CSV, or Excel

Your $5 monthly platform credit is enough to run this actor right away — and again every month — scraping typically several hundred to several thousand results per run, depending on your input.

Key features

Proxy support — Route traffic through Apify Proxy or your own proxy group to avoid regional blocks and rate limits.

Export anywhere — Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel. Stream via Apify API, webhooks, or integrations with Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Keboola.

Structured data — Every transcript returns the same schema with consistent field naming. All fields always present — null when unavailable, never omitted.

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Use cases

Data pipeline automation Integrate with your ETL pipeline to collect structured transcripts from the source on a schedule. Export to CSV, JSON, or directly to your database.

Market research Monitor transcripts, track trends, and analyze market dynamics with structured, deduplicated data from the source.

AI / LLM training data Structured JSON per transcript is ready for RAG pipelines, embeddings, and agent workflows.

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Quick start

{
  "mediaUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"
  ],
  "maxMinutesPerItem": 5
}

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mediaUrls	array	—	Video, audio, podcast-feed or direct-file URLs to transcribe (up to 50 per run). Works with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Rumble, SoundCloud, Dailymotion, Twitch and 1,800+ other sites, podcast RSS/Atom feeds (newest episodes are expanded automatically) and direct media files (mp3, mp4, wav, m4a, flac, ogg, webm, mov).
language	string	""	ISO 639-1 code of the spoken language, e.g. en, es, de, pt. Leave empty to auto-detect — 99+ languages are recognised.
translateToEnglish	boolean	false	Output an English translation of the speech instead of a transcript in the original language. Subtitles are translated too.
wordTimestamps	boolean	false	Add a words array with start/end times for every word to each segment. Useful for karaoke-style captions and precise clipping.
maxMinutesPerItem	integer	120	Per-URL cap on how many minutes of media are transcribed and billed (max 300). Longer media is transcribed up to the cap; you pay only for transcribed minutes. Free-plan runs are additionally limited to 30 minutes of media per run in total. Runs with a cap of 30 minutes or less use 1024 MB of memory, longer caps use 2048 MB.
maxEpisodesPerFeed	integer	1	When a URL is a podcast RSS/Atom feed, transcribe this many of the newest episodes. Each episode becomes one output item.
cookies	string	—	Contents of a cookies.txt exported from a logged-in browser session. Needed for YouTube's "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" gate and for age- or region-restricted content. Stored as a secret; leave empty for public media.
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}	Proxy settings for media platforms that limit automated access. The default works for most sources; change it only if a platform keeps refusing downloads.
excludeEmptyFields	boolean	false	Drop null, empty-string and empty-array fields from every output record to keep exports compact.

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Output fields

Every transcript returns the same 23-field schema. Missing values are null — never omitted.

• url
• inputUrl
• sourceType
• platform
• title
• uploader
• publishedAt
• thumbnailUrl
• durationSeconds
• transcribedSeconds
• billedMinutes
• language
• languageProbability
• task
• text
• wordCount
• segments
• srt
• vtt
• srtFileUrl
• vttFileUrl
• error
• scrapedAt

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Sample output

One object per transcript. Here is a real example from a production run:

{
  "url": "https://traffic.megaphone.fm/FSI5284996555.mp3",
  "inputUrl": "https://feed.syntax.fm/rss",
  "sourceType": "podcast-episode",
  "platform": "podcast",
  "title": "1035: Why everyone is moving to Stylex?",
  "uploader": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-02T11:00:00.000Z",
  "thumbnailUrl": null,
  "durationSeconds": 1596.656325,
  "transcribedSeconds": 119.1,
  "billedMinutes": 2,
  "language": "en"
}

Truncated — full records contain 23 fields. See Output fields for the complete schema.

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Pricing

Pay only for what you extract. No subscription required — Apify's free $5 credit covers thousands of results.

Event	Price (USD)
Actor Start	$0.01
Minute of media transcribed	$0.03

See the actor on Apify for current pricing.

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FAQ

How much does it cost? Pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for ${NOUNS} extracted. Apify's free $5 credit is enough to run thousands of results before you pay anything.

Do I need an API key or credentials? No. Just sign up for Apify, paste your input, and click Start. No credit card required.

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Getting started with Apify

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1. Sign up — $5 platform credit included
2. Open Video & Audio Transcriber and configure your input
3. Click Start — export results as JSON, CSV, or Excel

Need more later? See Apify pricing.

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About Black Falcon Data

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Last updated: 2026 09