YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions & Subtitles to Text
Pricing
$4.00 / 1,000 transcript returneds
Get the transcript of any YouTube video, Short, channel or playlist as timestamped caption lines and plain text, with title, channel, views and date. $4 per 1,000 transcripts, proxy included; videos without captions are free.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions & Subtitles to 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.
$echo '{< "videos": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"< ],< "proxyConfiguration": {< "useApifyProxy": true,< "apifyProxyGroups": [< "RESIDENTIAL"< ]< }<}' |<apify call changefeeds/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions & Subtitles to Text 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: