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YouTube Transcript API & Subtitles Scraper — Captions, SRT, VTT

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YouTube transcript API: captions of videos, playlists, channels as timestamped text, SRT or WebVTT for $1 per 1,000 transcripts. Fast; videos without captions are free. Unofficial YouTube Transcript API. YouTube transcript scraper, YouTube subtitles, YouTube captions, YouTube channel transcripts.

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You can access the YouTube Transcript API & Subtitles Scraper — Captions, SRT, VTT 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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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=aircAruvnKk"],
10    "proxyConfiguration": {
11        "useApifyProxy": True,
12        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
13    },
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("highbrow_fame/youtube-transcript-fast").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
21for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper — Subtitles & Captions API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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