Pricing

Pay per usage

YouTube Transcript API - 100% Free, Unlimited Transcripts

Completely free - no charge per transcript, ever. Clean timestamped transcripts from any YouTube video: watch links, youtu.be, Shorts, embeds or bare IDs. Reads YouTube's own first-party player endpoint - no API key, no cookies. Full text, per-line segments, language, word count.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

omar khandji

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Monthly active users

10 hours ago

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Social media

Videos

You can access the YouTube Transcript API - 100% Free, Unlimited Transcripts 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "videos": [
12        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",
13        "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ"
14    ],
15    "proxyConfiguration": {
16        "useApifyProxy": true
17    }
18};
19
20// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
21const run = await client.actor("om_kh/youtube-transcript-api").call(input);
22
23// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
24console.log('Results from dataset');
25console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
26const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
27items.forEach((item) => {
28    console.dir(item);
29});
30
31// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

YouTube Transcript API - 100% Free, Unlimited Transcripts API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript API - 100% Free, Unlimited Transcripts API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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