YouTube Transcript Scraper - Bulk Subtitles, SRT & RAG Chunks
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Extract YouTube transcripts in bulk from videos, playlists, channels, @handles or searches. Timestamped segments, plain text, SRT, VTT and RAG-ready chunks, in any caption language, with optional translation.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Bulk Subtitles, SRT & RAG Chunks 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.
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