YouTube Transcript Scraper API: Subtitles, Captions, Channels
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from $3.25 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts, subtitles and captions from videos, Shorts, playlists and whole channels as text, timestamped JSON, SRT or VTT. Any language, auto-generated captions and translation. YouTube to text for AI. Pay only for transcripts.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper API: Subtitles, Captions, Channels programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
$echo '{< "urls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"< ]<}' |<apify call andracore/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper API: Subtitles, Captions, Channels locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: