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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, Captions, Channels

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Fast YouTube transcripts & subtitles for videos, Shorts, whole channels, playlists and search results. Plain text, timestamps or SRT, any language. $2 per 1,000 transcripts, videos without captions are free.

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$2.00 / 1,000 transcripts

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles, Captions, Channels 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=8jPQjjsBbIc"],
10    "channels": [],
11    "playlists": [],
12    "searchQueries": [],
13    "languages": ["en"],
14    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
15}
16
17# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18run = client.actor("coiled_magistrate/youtube-transcript-fast").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 - Fast, $2 per 1,000 Videos API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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