YouTube Transcript Scraper: Bulk Videos, Shorts & Timestamps
Pricing
from $2.40 / 1,000 transcripts
Extract YouTube transcripts in bulk from videos, Shorts and live replays with accessible captions. Export clean text, caption language and optional timestamps for RAG, summaries and content research. No YouTube API key; works with n8n, Make and Apify MCP.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Bulk Videos, Shorts & Timestamps 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://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw"< ],< "use_paid_upstream": false<}' |<apify call hirepulse/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper: Bulk Videos, Shorts & Timestamps 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: