YouTube Transcript Scraper: Subtitles, Channels & Whisper
Pricing
from $4.50 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts and subtitles from videos, Shorts, channels, playlists and keyword searches: text, timestamped segments, SRT and VTT, plus views, tags and chapters. No captions? Whisper transcribes the audio. Pick languages and a date window. Failed videos are free.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Subtitles, Channels & Whisper 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 '{< "urls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"< ],< "proxyConfiguration": {< "useApifyProxy": true,< "apifyProxyGroups": [< "RESIDENTIAL"< ]< }<}' |<apify call humble-echidna/youtube-transcripts --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper: Subtitles, Channels & Whisper 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: