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Video Subtitles Scraper — YouTube Captions to SRT/JSON

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Extract video subtitles and closed captions from YouTube in any available language: timestamped segments, full transcript text and video metadata. Handles manual and auto-generated captions with automatic language fallback.

Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 video subtitles (srt/vtt)s

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Developer

Crawlyard Data

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Monthly active users

11 hours ago

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Categories

Videos

Developer tools

You can access the Video Subtitles Scraper — YouTube Captions to SRT/JSON 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

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "videoUrls": [
12        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
13    ],
14    "proxyConfiguration": {
15        "useApifyProxy": true,
16        "apifyProxyGroups": [
17            "RESIDENTIAL"
18        ]
19    }
20};
21
22// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
23const run = await client.actor("crawlyard/video-subtitles-scraper").call(input);
24
25// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
26console.log('Results from dataset');
27console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
28const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
29items.forEach((item) => {
30    console.dir(item);
31});
32
33// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Video Subtitles Scraper - YouTube Captions to SRT API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Video Subtitles Scraper — YouTube Captions to SRT/JSON API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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