YouTube to Text: Video Transcript
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from $0.29 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube to text: convert a YouTube video to text. Paste video, channel or playlist links and get each transcript as clean plain text, in its own language or translated, with title, duration and word count. A YouTube transcript to text converter and YouTube text extractor for notes and AI. No login.
You can access the YouTube to Text: Video Transcript programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, youβll 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 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU",12 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o",13 ],14 "outputFormat": "text",15 "maxVideos": 20,16}17
18# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish19run = client.actor("deepmine/youtube-to-text").call(run_input=run_input)20
21# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)22print(f"πΎ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")23for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():24 print(item)25
26# π Want to learn more π? Go to β 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 to Text: Video Transcript API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: