Youtube Text Scraper

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Extract YouTube transcripts, subtitles, video metadata, hashtags, thumbnails, views, duration, and release dates from YouTube videos using either a search query or a list of direct YouTube URLs. It helps you turn YouTube search results and specific video links into structured JSON data

Pricing

from $2.90 / 1,000 results

Rating

5.0

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Developer

Fabio Borsotti

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Monthly active users

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Categories

Lead generation

Developer tools

You can access the Youtube Text Scraper 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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    "direct_url": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqsDoIjXDPk"],
10    "langs": [
11        "it",
12        "en",
13    ],
14    "file_output": "output.json",
15}
16
17# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18run = client.actor("ilborso/youtube-text-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
19
20# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
21print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
22for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
23    print(item)
24
25# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript & Metadata Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Youtube Text Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Youtube Text Scraper API in JavaScript

Youtube Text Scraper API through CLI

Youtube Text Scraper OpenAPI definition

Youtube Text Scraper API

YouTube Videos Scraper

thescrapelab/Apify-YouTube-Videos-Scraper-2-0

Scrape YouTube video metadata from search queries, channels, and video URLs without the YouTube API. Export titles, links, views, thumbnails, and channel data.