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YouTube Transcript Extractor: Timed Captions

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Extracts timed captions from YouTube videos through the ANDROID player endpoint behind rotating residential proxies. Returns manual or auto-generated tracks with start times, language, full text and video details, and retries bot checks on a new IP for every video.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

luochengfengqi

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Total users

Monthly active users

3 days ago

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Categories

Videos

Developer tools

You can access the YouTube Transcript Extractor: Timed Captions 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

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    "videos": [
10        "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
11        "UF8uR6Z6KLc",
12        "iG9CE55wbtY",
13    ],
14    "languages": ["en"],
15    "proxyConfiguration": {
16        "useApifyProxy": True,
17        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
18        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
19    },
20}
21
22# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
23run = client.actor("luochengfengqi/youtube-transcript-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)
24
25# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
26print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
27for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
28    print(item)
29
30# 📚 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 Extractor: Timed Captions API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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