Pricing

Pay per usage

YouTube Transcript Scraper Goat

Extract transcripts and captions from public YouTube videos in bulk. Returns timed segments (start, duration, text), the language, whether captions are auto-generated, and an optional joined plain-text blob. Accepts watch URLs, youtu.be links, Shorts, or raw video ids. No login or cookies.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Goutam Soni

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

15 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Videos

Developer tools

You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper Goat 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.

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    "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
10    "preferredLanguages": ["en"],
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("goat255/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("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).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 - Captions & Subtitles API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper Goat API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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YouTube Transcript Scraper Goat API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript Scraper Goat API through CLI

YouTube Transcript Scraper Goat OpenAPI definition

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