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YouTube Subtitles Scraper — SRT, VTT & Transcript

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YouTube subtitles scraper: download YouTube captions as SRT and VTT files, plain-text transcript and timestamped JSON segments, in any available language. Handles manual and auto-generated YouTube captions.

Pricing

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

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Crawlyard Data

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Monthly active users

17 days ago

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Videos

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You can access the YouTube Subtitles Scraper — SRT, VTT & Transcript 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/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
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-video-subtitles-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 Subtitles Downloader - SRT & VTT Files API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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