YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second
DeprecatedPricing
Pay per usage
Real-time YouTube transcript API: send one YouTube link to an always-on web address and get the transcript and captions back in 0.2–0.7 seconds once warm, with likes, chapters and comments on request. For chatbots, voice assistants and AI agents; unreachable videos are free.
You can access the YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU"],10 "maxVideosPerSource": 5,11 "maxVideosPerSearch": 5,12}13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish15run = client.actor("nokia2k/youtube-transcript-instant-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-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: