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YouTube Transcript Scraper – Captions to Text for RAG & LLMs

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Turn YouTube subtitles/captions into clean text or timestamped segments by video URL or ID. No proxies, no browser, no bans.

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YouTube Transcript Scraper – Captions to Text, No Proxies API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper – Captions to Text for RAG & LLMs locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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YouTube Transcript Scraper – Captions to Text for RAG & LLMs API

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