YouTube Transcript Scraper — Bulk Captions to Text & JSON
Pricing
$4.50 / 1,000 transcripts
Bulk-download YouTube transcripts (captions/subtitles) as clean text or timestamped segments, with title, channel and language. Paste video links, Shorts or IDs, even messy pasted lists. $0.0045 per transcript; videos without one are free.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — Bulk Captions to Text & JSON 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.
$echo '{< "videos": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",< "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw"< ]<}' |<apify call hapster/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper — Bulk Captions to Text & JSON locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: