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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Subtitles & Timed Text

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Export available public YouTube captions as full text and timed JSON segments, up to 5 videos per run. YouTube may block requests. USD 0.053 per start plus USD 0.008 per complete transcript.

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from $8.00 / 1,000 complete transcripts

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Cliqto Media

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Subtitles & Timed 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 = { "videoUrls": ["jNQXAC9IVRw"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("cliqtomedia/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(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper API | Timed Subtitles API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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