YouTube Transcript Scraper

YouTube Transcript Scraper by Omkar Cloud gets you 🎯 accurate, 🔍 detailed YouTube transcripts.

YouTube uses Google BotGuard bot protection to stop you from getting its data.

YouTube Transcript Scraper beats it, so you get the data, and can successfully complete your project.

$2 per 1,000 transcripts. And with Apify's free plan you get $5 of credit every month, so your first ~2,500 transcripts each month are free.

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👉 Try YouTube Transcript Scraper free — your first ~2,500 transcripts are Free.

What can I get

• 📝 The full transcript of any video — ready-to-use plain text for AI, search and summaries
• ⏱️ Timed segments — every line with its start, end and duration in seconds
• 🌍 Any language the video has — manual or auto-generated tracks; the video's own language by default
• 📺 A whole channel at once — the latest uploads of any channel, one transcript per video

Why YouTube Transcript Scraper

Most other YouTube scrapers fail you in one of four ways:

• 🗄️ Inaccurate, cached, stale data
• 🧩 Low-detail data — a few fields per row, never the full picture
• 💸 Pay more to get the same data
• 🪦 Works today, breaks next month — nobody maintains it

YouTube Transcript Scraper is scraped live on every run, priced honestly, and actively maintained.

Example: A YouTube Transcript

{
  "video": {"id": "aircAruvnKk", "title": "But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1", "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"},
  "language_code": "en",
  "language": "English",
  "is_auto_generated": false,
  "count": 286,
  "text": "This is a 3. It's sloppily written and rendered at an extremely low resolution of 28x28 pixels, but your brain has no trouble recognizing it as a 3....",
  "segments": [
    {"start_seconds": 4.22, "end_seconds": 5.4, "duration_seconds": 1.18, "text": "This is a 3."},
    {"start_seconds": 6.06, "end_seconds": 10.713, "duration_seconds": 4.653, "text": "It's sloppily written and rendered at an extremely low resolution of 28x28 pixels,"}
  ]
}

Trimmed for readability.

Get Started with 2,500 Free Transcripts

1. Hit Try for Free Button — the input is pre-filled with 3Blue1Brown's But what is a neural network?.
2. Enjoy your data 😎.

Pricing

High value, Low price.

What	Price	What you get
Transcripts	$2 per 1,000	the video (id, title, link), language, auto-generated flag, full text and every timed segment

No start fee — you pay only for the transcripts you get. Videos without subtitles are skipped and never billed.

💡 Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit every month — about 2,500 free transcripts, every month.

👉 Scrape your first 2,500 transcripts free

FAQ

How much will a run cost? 1,000 transcripts cost about $2.

Can I pick the language? Yes — set Transcript Language (en, es, pt-BR, ...). Leave it empty for the video's own language.

Can I get just the text? Yes — turn off Include Timed Segments.

Run It from Code

Grab your API token from Integrations Settings here and replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> below.

Python (pip install apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("omkar-cloud/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input={
    "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"],
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["video"]["title"], item["text"][:200])

Node.js (npm install apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('omkar-cloud/youtube-transcript-scraper').call({
    channels: ['@3blue1brown'],
    maxVideosPerChannel: 10,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

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