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YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions + AI ASR Fallback

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Extract transcripts from any YouTube video, Shorts, or playlist as LLM-ready JSON with timestamps, language info, and title. Get plain text plus SRT/VTT subtitles. Caption-less videos are transcribed with GPU AI instead of failing. Pay only for delivered transcripts.

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from $1.50 / 1,000 successful transcripts

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions + AI ASR Fallback 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.

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HTTP

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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    "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
10    "language": "en",
11    "targetLanguage": "",
12}
13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15run = client.actor("lexiie/youtube-transcript-api").call(run_input=run_input)
16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
18print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
19for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
20    print(item)
21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper — Captions + AI ASR Fallback API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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$pip install apify-client

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