YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions & Subtitles to Text
Pricing
from $0.0025 / transcript scraped
Get the full transcript of any YouTube video: clean text plus timestamped segments, in any available language (auto-translation supported). Paste video URLs and export as JSON, CSV or Excel — perfect for summaries, subtitles, research and LLMs.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions & Subtitles to Text 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU"] }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("hipersoft/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions & Subtitles to Text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: