YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions & Subtitles for AI/RAG
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from $4.50 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts and captions as plain text, timestamped segments, SRT or VTT, with video metadata. Videos, channels and playlists; language preference, auto-generated fallback and translation. Pay only per transcript.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions & Subtitles for AI/RAG 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.
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