YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles & Captions API
Pricing
from $8.00 / 1,000 transcript extracteds
Extract YouTube transcripts, subtitles and closed captions from videos, playlists and whole channels. Multi-language, SRT and VTT output. Pay only for transcripts you actually receive.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles & Captions API 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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