YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles & Captions API
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Get transcripts of YouTube videos, Shorts, whole channels, playlists or search results: full text, timestamped segments and SRT or VTT files, in the video's language or every language it has. Creator subtitles first, auto-generated as backup. No API key.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles & Captions 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, 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 = { "urls": [9 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",10 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1hZ3EalPQU",11 "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CEJXqm2eiJ0",12 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",13 ] }14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish16run = client.actor("delicious_zebu/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)19print(f"πΎ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")20for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():21 print(item)22
23# 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 Transcript Scraper - Subtitles & Captions API API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: