YouTube Transcript API — Captions to Text, SRT & VTT
Pricing
from $0.57 / 1,000 transcript returneds
Get the transcript of any YouTube video as timed segments, plain text, SRT or VTT. Picks your preferred language, falls back to auto-generated captions and can machine-translate. Returns title, channel, duration and every available language. Proxy included, no API key, no login.
You can access the YouTube Transcript API — Captions to Text, 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.
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 = {9 "videoUrls": [10 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY",11 "EJXTZ5jpSmk",12 ],13 "languages": ["en"],14 "format": "segments",15 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },16}17
18# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish19run = client.actor("insight.solutions/youtube-transcript-api").call(run_input=run_input)20
21# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)22print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")23for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():24 print(item)25
26# 📚 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 API — Captions to Text, SRT & VTT API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: