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YouTube Transcript Scraper API: Subtitles & Captions

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YouTube transcript API: bulk transcripts, subtitles and captions from videos, Shorts, playlists, channels and searches. Any language, auto-translate, timestamps, text/SRT/VTT. $2.50 per 1,000.

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper API: Subtitles & Captions 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.

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JavaScript

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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": [
10        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
11        "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ",
12    ],
13    "languages": [
14        "en",
15        "auto",
16    ],
17    "outputFormats": [
18        "segments",
19        "text",
20    ],
21    "maxVideosPerSource": 10,
22    "proxyConfiguration": {
23        "useApifyProxy": True,
24        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
25    },
26}
27
28# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
29run = client.actor("best_apis/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
30
31# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
32print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
33for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
34    print(item)
35
36# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript API & Scraper: Bulk Subtitles, SRT API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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