YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API
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Get full YouTube transcripts with timestamps and chapters, plus SRT, VTT and TXT subtitle files. Works for videos, Shorts, playlists, channels and search phrases. Language choice, no login or cookies. Bulk input, auto proxy. Export JSON, CSV or Excel.
You can access the YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, youโll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "urls": [10 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",11 "@3blue1brown",12 ],13 "maxItems": 10,14 "languages": ["en"],15 "subtitleFormats": ["srt"],16 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },17}18
19# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish20run = client.actor("data_minds/youtube-transcript-subtitles-scraper-api").call(run_input=run_input)21
22# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)23print(f"๐พ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")24for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():25 print(item)26
27# ๐ Want to learn more ๐? Go to โ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: