YouTube Transcript Scraper (timestamps, channels, search)
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 result items
YouTube transcript scraper with no API key and no login: the full subtitle text of any video plus the timed segments behind it, as one row per video. Feed single videos, a whole channel or a keyword search. Picks the caption language you ask for, human-written before auto-generated.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper (timestamps, channels, search) 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.
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 "videoUrls": [10 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",11 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o",12 ],13 "languages": ["en"],14 "maxItems": 20,15}16
17# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish18run = client.actor("datahamster/youtube-transcripts").call(run_input=run_input)19
20# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)21print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")22for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():23 print(item)24
25# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → 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 Scraper (timestamps, channels, search) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: