You can access the YouTube 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 = { "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("daftvader/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube 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 Transcript Scraper API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript Scraper API through CLI

YouTube Transcript Scraper OpenAPI definition

YouTube Transcript Scraper API

YouTube Full Channel Transcripts Extractor

akash9078/youtube-full-channel-transcripts-extractor

Extract accurate transcripts from all YouTube videos in a channel or individual videos. Supports regular videos, live streams, shorts, and premieres with automatic caption detection.

Akash Kumar Naik

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Facebook video reel transcript

linen_snack/facebook-video-reel-transcript

Effortlessly convert any public Facebook reels videos into accurate text, subtitles, or translations with this powerful OpenAI Whisper API actor.

ius iyb

YouTube Video Transcribe

entertained_rattlesnake/youtube-video-transcribe

Transcribe YouTube videos by extracting subtitles and metadata, and push the results directly to the Apify Dataset.

Entertained Rattlesnake

Youtube Transcript API

transcriptdev/youtube-transcript-api

YouTubeTranscript.dev turns YouTube videos into text. It uses captions in 100+ languages and AI transcription when captions are missing. Supports single videos and batches, TXT/SRT/VTT/JSON export, translation, and a REST API.

Youtube Transcript Dev

X (Twitter) Video Transcript Scraper - Video to Text

seemuapps/x-video-transcript-scraper

Turn any X (Twitter) video into text with timestamps. Paste post links and get the full transcript, language and post details for each video in bulk.

Seemu Scraping

YouTube Transcript Scraper - JSON, SRT, VTT, RAG

jamhimself/youtube-transcript-extractor

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos. Input: video URLs or IDs + language preferences. Output: plain text, timestamped segments, SRT/VTT subtitles, and RAG chunks with deep links. 100+ languages, no API key. $0.0075 per delivered transcript.

Jaime Martinez

Youtube Transcript Scraper

ecomscrape/youtube-transcript-scraper-ppe

YouTube Transcript Scraper automates extraction of video transcripts and subtitles in multiple languages. Efficiently collect spoken content data from YouTube videos for content analysis, SEO research, accessibility services, and multilingual video intelligence.

ecomscrape

YouTube Transcript Scraper

flash_kpi/youtube-transcript-scraper

Get full transcripts (subtitles) of YouTube videos in any available language, with timestamps or as plain text, plus video title, channel and metadata. Ready for summaries, LLM and RAG pipelines.

YEVHEN VDOVIN

YouTube Transcript Scraper

transcriptfetch/youtube-transcript-scraper

Transcripts of YouTube videos, Shorts, whole channels and playlists, with timestamps. AI transcription when a video has no captions. Failed videos are free.