YouTube Transcript API: get transcripts as JSON
Trong Nguyen
Works like a YouTube transcript API: send video, channel or playlist links and get the transcripts back as JSON in the same request, with timestamps and video details. No YouTube API key and no quota. Call it from Python, JavaScript, curl or any HTTP client.
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Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as new, channel, title, and more.
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POST the transcript API task's input to the run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint of the Apify API with your token. The response is the list of videos as JSON.
No. The transcript API task reads the captions YouTube publishes with each video, so you only need an Apify API token and there is no daily quota.
The transcript API task is billed per transcript returned: 0.0015 USD per video, or 1.50 USD per 1,000. Videos without captions are listed for free.
Yes. Save the transcript API task to your account, add a schedule in Apify Console, or start it from the Apify API, Make, Zapier or n8n with the same input.