YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions, Timestamps, Channels
Pricing
$0.01 / 1,000 video transcripts
YouTube transcripts without an account: plain text and timestamped segments for videos, Shorts, playlists and channels. Pick caption languages or fall back to the original. Every video gets a record with a clear reason when it has no captions. Trial: 0.01 USD per 1,000 transcripts until 30 Nov 2026.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions, Timestamps, 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.
{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,cozybit/youtube-transcript-scraper" } }}The configuration above connects to the hosted Apify MCP server with the YouTube Transcript Scraper and API: Captions with Timestamps Actor already loaded. It uses OAuth, so your client opens a browser window to sign you in to Apify on first use. No API token is needed. Clients without OAuth support can authenticate with an Authorization: Bearer header carrying an API token from API & Integrations in Apify Console.
Get a ready-to-use configuration for your MCP client with the YouTube Transcript Scraper and API: Captions with Timestamps Actor preconfigured at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,cozybit/youtube-transcript-scraper.
You can connect to the Apify MCP Server using clients like Tester MCP Client, or any other MCP client of your choice.
If you want to learn more about our Apify MCP implementation, check out our MCP documentation. To learn more about the Model Context Protocol in general, refer to the official MCP documentation or read our blog post.