You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: video captions as text 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"],
10    "proxyConfiguration": {
11        "useApifyProxy": True,
12        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
13    },
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("bepolabs/youtube-transcripts").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
21for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Subtitle Downloader API for Clips, Lectures and Talks API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper: video captions as text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

YouTube Transcript Scraper: video captions as text API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript Scraper: video captions as text API through CLI

YouTube Transcript Scraper: video captions as text OpenAPI definition

YouTube Transcript Scraper: video captions as text API

YouTube Transcript Scraper & Subtitles API

automationnation/youtube-transcript-scraper

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Nathan Carter

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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, Captions, Channels

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Fast YouTube transcripts & subtitles for videos, Shorts, whole channels, playlists and search results. Plain text, timestamps or SRT, any language. $2 per 1,000 transcripts, videos without captions are free.

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maged120/youtube-transcript

YouTube Transcript Scraper: extract the full transcript, subtitles and captions of any YouTube video in every available language, with timestamps. Works with auto-generated and manual captions. Ready for AI summaries, translation, SEO and search indexing. Export to JSON or CSV, or via API.

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thedoor/youtube-transcript-scraper

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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Captions & Subtitles

fguiraud/youtube-transcript-scraper

Get the transcript of any YouTube video, Short, channel, playlist or search results as text, timestamped segments, SRT, VTT or Markdown, in any available language, with title, channel, duration and views. Videos without captions can be transcribed with AI (Whisper). Pay per transcript.

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YouTube Transcript API | Video to Text Scraper for AI

andok/youtube-transcript-scraper

Extract full transcripts and time-coded captions from any YouTube video. Build custom AI datasets, train LLMs, or repurpose video content.

Andok

YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles to Text for LLM & RAG

inovaflow/youtube-transcript-scraper

Turn any YouTube video, playlist or channel into clean, LLM-ready text. Full transcripts with timestamps, chapters and video details — 100+ caption languages, no login, no API key.

inovaflow

YouTube Transcript Scraper

agilevendor/youtube-transcript-scraper

Extract transcripts and subtitles from any public YouTube video, playlist, or channel. Get plain text, timestamped segments, and ready-to-use SRT and VTT files in one run — plus title, channel, and language. Bulk playlists and channels, language selection. You only pay for successful transcripts.

Agilevendor

YouTube Transcript API & MCP Server | Audio to Text

andok/youtube-transcript-mcp

Extract full verbatim transcripts from any YouTube video, even without captions. Works as a standalone batch API or an MCP server for AI agents. Pay per transcript.

Andok