You can access the YouTube Playlist Transcript Scraper 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    "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL70DEC2B0568B5469"],
10    "proxyConfiguration": {
11        "useApifyProxy": True,
12        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
13    },
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("crawlyard/youtube-playlist-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
21for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Playlist Transcript Extractor - All Videos API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

YouTube Playlist Transcript Scraper API in JavaScript

YouTube Playlist Transcript Scraper API through CLI

YouTube Playlist Transcript Scraper OpenAPI definition

YouTube Playlist Transcript Scraper API

Youtube Playlist Scraper (Transcript & Subtitles)

scrapio/youtube-playlist-extractor

This YouTube Playlist Extractor gathers complete playlist data—video links, titles, stats, thumbnails, and more. Great for creators, analysts, educators, and marketers who need organized video lists for reports, automation, or content planning.

Scrapio

YouTube Playlist Transcript Scraper - Whole Playlist to Text

vonsensey/youtube-playlist-transcript-scraper

Transcribe an entire playlist in one run. Every video in the list comes back as clean, timestamped text under its own chapters, in playlist order - a full course, podcast season or lecture series turned into one searchable document set. Failed videos cost nothing.

Blackcube Agency AB

YouTube Channel Finder With Contact Info Extraction

api-empire/youtube-channel-finder

YouTube Channel Finder: Discover channels by keyword and extract publicly available contact info, channel names, descriptions, emails, websites, subscriber counts, video metrics, and URLs. Build enriched creator and business lead lists for prospecting, influencer research, and market analysis.

API Empire

YouTube Shorts Scraper With Transcripts & Captions

scrapio/youtube-shorts-scraper

The Youtube Shorts Scraper extracts Shorts data including titles, views, likes, comments, creators, hashtags, and video links. Get clean JSON or CSV for trend analysis, content research, audience insights, and automation workflows at scale.

Scrapio

YouTube Transcript API - Bulk Video Transcripts, Fast

vonsensey/youtube-transcript-api

A transcript endpoint you can call at scale. Send one URL or ten thousand - videos, playlists, channels mixed together - and get clean, timestamped text back in one pass. Structured JSON on every row, ready to pipe straight into your app. You pay only for transcripts actually delivered.

Blackcube Agency AB

YouTube Channel Transcript Scraper - Whole Channel to Text

vonsensey/youtube-channel-transcript-scraper

Hand it a channel and get that channel's words back. Every upload is expanded, transcribed and returned as one clean dataset with timings and chapters - a full back catalogue ready for search, analysis or an AI pipeline. Set how many videos per channel, and pay only for what lands.

Blackcube Agency AB

YouTube Closed Captions Extractor - Every Caption Track

vonsensey/youtube-closed-captions-extractor

Pull the closed captions off any YouTube video - and not just one language. Each available caption track comes back separately with its language, whether it was human-written or auto-generated, and a ready-made WebVTT version, so localisation and accessibility checks stop being manual work.

Blackcube Agency AB

YouTube Video Transcription - Video to Text at Scale

vonsensey/youtube-video-transcription

Get the full spoken text of any YouTube video, formatted like something a person would read: real paragraphs, grouped under the video's own chapters, with a timestamp on every line. Works on single videos or an entire channel, and you only pay for the transcripts you receive.

Blackcube Agency AB

YouTube Subtitle Downloader - SRT & VTT Subtitle Files

vonsensey/youtube-subtitle-downloader

Download ready-to-use subtitle files from any YouTube video, playlist or channel. Every result carries the finished SRT and WebVTT text alongside plain text, correctly timed and ready to drop into a player, an editor or a caption workflow. Batch a whole channel in one run.

Blackcube Agency AB

YouTube Shorts Transcript Scraper - Bulk Shorts to Text

vonsensey/youtube-shorts-transcript-scraper

Turn a creator's short-form output into searchable text. Point it at a channel and it pulls the spoken words out of every Short with timings intact - hooks, scripts and trends in a spreadsheet instead of a scroll session. Long-form videos and playlists work in the same run.

Blackcube Agency AB