YouTube Transcript Scraper — Never Silent, LLM-Ready
Pricing
from $8.00 / 1,000 transcript delivereds
Public YouTube transcript scraper with full batch accounting: every input returns a transcript or a typed, actionable failure — the run is never silent. Supports direct videos plus playlist/channel expansion, caption-availability auditing, and LLM-ready output as JSON, text, SRT, WebVTT, or chunks.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — Never Silent, LLM-Ready 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"] }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("catalini82/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper — Never Silent, LLM-Ready API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: