YouTube Transcript Scraper — captions to Markdown
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 transcript fetcheds
Get YouTube video transcripts as clean Markdown and timed segments. Accepts video, channel and playlist URLs, picks your preferred caption language with automatic fallback, and returns title, channel, publish date, duration, word count and a per-video status. Failed videos are never charged.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — captions to Markdown 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.
{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fre.d/youtube-transcript" } }}The configuration above connects to the hosted Apify MCP server with the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions to Markdown & JSON Actor already loaded. It uses OAuth, so your client opens a browser window to sign you in to Apify on first use. No API token is needed. Clients without OAuth support can authenticate with an Authorization: Bearer header carrying an API token from API & Integrations in Apify Console.
Get a ready-to-use configuration for your MCP client with the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions to Markdown & JSON Actor preconfigured at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fre.d/youtube-transcript.
You can connect to the Apify MCP Server using clients like Tester MCP Client, or any other MCP client of your choice.
If you want to learn more about our Apify MCP implementation, check out our MCP documentation. To learn more about the Model Context Protocol in general, refer to the official MCP documentation or read our blog post.