YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Captions and Subtitles
Pricing
from $5.92 / 1,000 transcript returneds
For RAG pipelines, LLM training and content repurposing: transcripts of public YouTube videos - manual and auto-generated captions - as clean text or timestamped lines. When one fails you are told which failure it was: private video, no captions, or blocked. 14 of 15 gave 83,647 characters in 48.7s.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Captions and 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.
{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neverempty/youtube-transcript-reliable" } }}The configuration above connects to the hosted Apify MCP server with the YouTube Transcript API - Captions for RAG and LLMs Actor already loaded. It uses OAuth, so your client opens a browser window to sign you in to Apify on first use. No API token is needed. Clients without OAuth support can authenticate with an Authorization: Bearer header carrying an API token from API & Integrations in Apify Console.
Get a ready-to-use configuration for your MCP client with the YouTube Transcript API - Captions for RAG and LLMs Actor preconfigured at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neverempty/youtube-transcript-reliable.
You can connect to the Apify MCP Server using clients like Tester MCP Client, or any other MCP client of your choice.
If you want to learn more about our Apify MCP implementation, check out our MCP documentation. To learn more about the Model Context Protocol in general, refer to the official MCP documentation or read our blog post.