YouTube RAG

Authorized transcript text into RAG chunks and readiness reports

This Actor audits authorized transcript text for RAG readiness, produces retrieval chunks and source-linked reports, and can optionally try public YouTube captions without login or cookies.

Not a bulk caption dump of arbitrary channels without authorization. Not YouTube Channel Analytics (subscribers/uploads). Not a website HTML extractor. Public captions only; no login or cookies.

from $6.00 / 1,000 Transcript RAG chunk ($0.006 per delivered transcript_rag_chunk); $9.00 per Transcript corpus snapshot report; $29 per YouTube RAG readiness report. No Actor Start.

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YouTube Transcript Corpus Audit for RAG, not a neighboring Actor

Use this page for this Actor’s job. Use YouTube Transcript Scraper for Bulk captions / SRT / VTT; Use YouTube Channel Analytics Scraper for Public channel stats; Use Website Content Extractor for One-shot page-to-markdown.

Store ID: taroyamada/youtube-channel-transcript-rag-intelligence. Respect source terms, robots.txt, and rate limits.

Use cases

• Chunk authorized transcript text for retrieval
• Optional public caption fetch on known video URLs
• Snapshot vs readiness report tiers; keep expensive reports off on first run

How is YouTube Transcript Corpus Audit for RAG different from YouTube Transcript Scraper and YouTube Channel Analytics Scraper?

YouTube Transcript Corpus Audit for RAG (taroyamada/youtube-channel-transcript-rag-intelligence): This Actor audits authorized transcript text for RAG readiness, produces retrieval chunks and source-linked reports, and can optionally try public YouTube captions without login or cookies. Not a bulk caption dump of arbitrary channels without authorization. Not YouTube Channel Analytics (subscribers/uploads). Not a website HTML extractor. Public captions only; no login or cookies. YouTube Transcript Scraper is for Bulk captions / SRT / VTT (input video URLs; Public captions; Transcript rows). Not a RAG readiness report. YouTube Channel Analytics Scraper is for Public channel stats (input channel URLs; Public channel pages; Channel analytics rows). Not transcript chunks. Website Content Extractor is for One-shot page-to-markdown (input urls; Page HTML; Markdown/text). Not recurring pricing/legal diffs or RAG audits.

What input is required?

Live required fields: none listed (see live fields). Published exampleRunInput is shown below.

Published Store example run input (omitted fields take schema defaults):

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "videoIds": [],
  "channelUrls": [],
  "playlistUrls": [],
  "language": "en",
  "includeAutoGenerated": true,
  "reportTier": "corpus_snapshot",
  "maxChargeUsd": 9,
  "maxVideos": 1,
  "chunkSize": 1200,
  "chunkOverlap": 150,
  "limit": 20,
  "delivery": "dataset",
  "webhookUrl": "",
  "dryRun": false
}

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How do dataset, webhook, and dry-run delivery work?

delivery defaults to dataset on the live schema. Dataset output is the billable surface when rows are written. webhookUrl is used when delivery is webhook (and typically not during dryRun). dryRun true validates or samples without the usual dataset/webhook side effects described on the Store schema. Unchanged runs that write zero default-dataset rows typically charge $0.00 on current PPE.

What does a result contain?

README output fence is truncated or invalid JSON on Store. Illustration head: { "meta": { "actorName": "youtube-channel-transcript-rag-intelligence", "actorTitle": "YouTube Channel Transcript RAG Intelligence", "fetchedAt": "2026-05-09T00:00:00.000Z", "totalRows": 2 }, "rows": [ { "rowType": "corpus_audit_report", "reportTier": "rag_readiness", "status": "… Treat README samples as illustrations, not a live coverage guarantee. There is no published output JSON schema on the Store page.

How is YouTube Transcript Corpus Audit for RAG priced?

Billing is pay per event. The live Store card is from $6.00 / 1,000 Transcript RAG chunk ($0.006 per delivered transcript_rag_chunk); $9.00 per Transcript corpus snapshot report; $29 per YouTube RAG readiness report. No Actor Start. Current PPE:

from $6.00 / 1,000 Transcript RAG chunk ($0.006 per delivered transcript_rag_chunk); $9.00 per Transcript corpus snapshot report; $29 per YouTube RAG readiness report. No Actor Start.

See YouTube Transcript Corpus Audit for RAG pricing on Apify

Limits to keep in mind

• No login, cookies, or private videos
• maxVideos / chunkSize caps
• reportTier controls billed reports
• Treat auto-generated captions as noisy
• Respect source terms, robots.txt, and rate limits.

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Related pages

• YouTube Transcript Scraper — Not a RAG readiness report.
• YouTube Channel Analytics Scraper — Not transcript chunks.
• Website Content Extractor — Not recurring pricing/legal diffs or RAG audits.
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