YouTube Transcript Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Get transcripts from YouTube videos and Shorts as plain text or structured timestamped segments. Results come with title, description, likes, channel details, and other metadata.
Pricing
Pay per usage
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0.0
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Developer
Embion
Actor stats
2
Bookmarked
11
Total users
5
Monthly active users
2 months ago
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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper 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.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "start_urls": [12 {13 "url": "https://youtu.be/dqwpQarrDwk"14 }15 ],16 "proxy": {17 "useApifyProxy": true,18 "groups": [19 "RESIDENTIAL"20 ]21 }22};23
24// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish25const run = await client.actor("embion/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(input);26
27// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)28console.log('Results from dataset');29console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);30const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();31items.forEach((item) => {32 console.dir(item);33});34
35// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: