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YouTube Transcript API — Captions with Timestamps, Channels

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YouTube transcript API for video links, IDs or channels: each video's YouTube captions in the spoken language (human-written when available, else auto-generated, de-duplicated) as clean text plus timed segments with timestamps. No API key. $0.005 per transcript on every plan; no captions, no charge.

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from $5.00 / 1,000 transcript delivereds

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Nicholas Cheng

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You can access the YouTube Transcript API — Captions with Timestamps, Channels 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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OpenAPI

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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    "videoUrls": [
10        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",
11        "jNQXAC9IVRw",
12    ],
13    "channelUrls": ["@veritasium"],
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("nick.cheng/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
21for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript API — Captions with Timestamps API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript API — Captions with Timestamps, Channels API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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$pip install apify-client

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