Pricing

$8.00 / 1,000 transcript extracteds

YouTube Transcript Scraper — with speech-to-text fallback

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos, playlists, and channels. Falls back to speech recognition when a video has no captions.

Pricing

$8.00 / 1,000 transcript extracteds

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Developer

Daniel Gulla

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Total users

Monthly active users

6 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Developer tools

You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — with speech-to-text fallback 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 Integrations settings 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 = { "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("dangul/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("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).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 - Works Without Captions API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper — with speech-to-text fallback 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 — with speech-to-text fallback API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript Scraper — with speech-to-text fallback API through CLI

YouTube Transcript Scraper — with speech-to-text fallback OpenAPI definition

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