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YouTube Transcript Scraper - Bulk Subtitles to Text, No Browser

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Clean transcript text with timestamped segments, language, auto-generated flag, title and channel for any list of YouTube videos, Shorts or bare IDs. No headless browser; proxy configuration for rate-limited IPs. Charged only for videos that return a transcript.

Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 transcript delivereds

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Developer

Lee Kung

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Monthly active users

21 days ago

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Videos

You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Bulk Subtitles to Text, No Browser 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "videoUrls": [
12        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
13    ],
14    "languages": [
15        "en"
16    ],
17    "proxyConfiguration": {
18        "useApifyProxy": true,
19        "apifyProxyGroups": [
20            "RESIDENTIAL"
21        ]
22    }
23};
24
25// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
26const run = await client.actor("leekung125/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(input);
27
28// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
29console.log('Results from dataset');
30console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
31const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
32items.forEach((item) => {
33    console.dir(item);
34});
35
36// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

YouTube Transcript API - bulk subtitles to text, no browser API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper - Bulk Subtitles to Text, No Browser API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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