YouTube Transcripts: Any Language, Auto-Captions, SRT
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Get YouTube transcripts in any language, including Arabic. Picks manual or auto captions in your order, can use YouTube's translation, expands playlists and channels, adds chapters. Videos without captions are free.
You can access the YouTube Transcripts: Any Language, Auto-Captions, SRT 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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