YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions & Subtitles
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube transcript API and YouTube to text: videos, channels and playlists as timestamped caption lines, the full transcript, and SRT or WebVTT subtitles to download at no extra charge. 220 languages by name, or all a video has. Title, channel, views and length included. No captions, no charge.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions & Subtitles 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=Zezt6EsG9WE",< "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA"< ],< "languages": [],< "subtitleFormats": [],< "maxVideos": 10<}' |<apify call kaleidoscopelabs/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions & Subtitles 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: