YouTube Transcript Scraper & Bulk Downloader
Pricing
Pay per event
Bulk YouTube transcript downloader and extractor — pull captions (manual or auto-generated) from one video or a whole channel, in any language. Returns plain-text transcript plus timed segments, export to JSON or CSV. We retry and rotate so the captions land.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper & Bulk Downloader 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
$echo '{< "videoUrls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"< ],< "proxyConfiguration": {< "useApifyProxy": true< }<}' |<apify call devilscrapes/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper & Bulk Downloader 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: