
YouTube Video Subtitles (captions) Scraper
- genial_candlestand/youtube-subtitles-scraper
- Modified
- Users 16
- Runs 189
- Created by
Flowo
Extract subtitles (captions) from one or multiple YouTube videos. Download YouTube video subtitles (captions) as a HTML, JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML doc.
To run the code examples, you need to have an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the code with your API token. For a more detailed explanation, please read about running Actors via the API in Apify Docs.
from apify_client import ApifyClient
# Initialize the ApifyClient with your API token
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"startUrls": [
{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzjS9iYHbuU" },
{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTRHomGg9uQ" },
],
"language": "en",
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("genial_candlestand/youtube-subtitles-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)