You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, SRT & VTT 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=aircAruvnKk"],
10    "outputFormats": [
11        "text",
12        "segments",
13    ],
14    "processingSpeed": "standard",
15}
16
17# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18run = client.actor("cheapapi/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
19
20# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
21print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
22for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
23    print(item)
24
25# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, SRT & VTT 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 - Subtitles, SRT & VTT API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, SRT & VTT API through CLI

YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, SRT & VTT OpenAPI definition

YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, SRT & VTT API

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Get YouTube transcripts and subtitles from video, channel and playlist links: plain text, timestamped segments, SRT and VTT, in the video's own language or the one you pick. Every caption track listed. Charged per transcript; videos without captions are free.