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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions + AI Speech-to-Text

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Get YouTube transcripts with timestamps from videos, channels and playlists, in the original or your chosen caption language. Videos without captions get AI speech-to-text with speaker labels and translation. Title, channel and date included. From $0.50 per 1,000 transcripts.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 transcripts

Rating

5.0

(1)

Developer

Epic Scrapers

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

8 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions + AI Speech-to-Text 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "urlList": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"],
10    "translationLanguages": ["es"],
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("epicscrapers/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper: Even Videos Without Captions API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions + AI Speech-to-Text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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