YouTube Transcript API: Captions & Subtitles
Pricing
from $1.99 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts from video, Shorts, channel or playlist links or search terms: full text, timed segments, SRT or WebVTT, in the video's own language or translated into yours (timestamps kept), with title, views, likes, date and channel. Videos without captions are free. No login, no API key.
You can access the YouTube Transcript API: Captions & Subtitles 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.
$echo '{< "urls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY",< "https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0",< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"< ],< "maxVideos": 20<}' |<apify call deepmine/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript API: Captions & Subtitles locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: