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YouTube Transcript Scraper – Bulk Captions, SRT/VTT, Playlists

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YouTube Transcript Scraper for videos, Shorts, playlists and whole channels. Plain text, timestamped segments, clean paragraphs, SRT and VTT in 100+ languages, with fallback to the video's own language. No API key, no quota. Pay only for transcripts delivered – videos without captions are free.

Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 transcripts

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Developer

Ani Björkström

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Monthly active users

14 days ago

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper – Bulk Captions, SRT/VTT, Playlists 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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" }] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("nourishing_courier/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper – Bulk Captions, SRT/VTT API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper – Bulk Captions, SRT/VTT, Playlists API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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