YouTube Transcript API: Scrape Video Transcripts, No API Key
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Fetch the transcript of any public YouTube video, Short or embed as clean text, timed JSON, SRT or WebVTT. Manual captions first, auto-generated as fallback, clear error per video. Uses Apify residential proxy. $4 per 1,000 transcripts, MCP-ready.
You can access the YouTube Transcript API: Scrape Video Transcripts, No API Key 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.
{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,openkrill/youtube-transcripts" } }}The configuration above connects to the hosted Apify MCP server with the YouTube Transcript Scraper API, No API Key Actor already loaded. It uses OAuth, so your client opens a browser window to sign you in to Apify on first use. No API token is needed. Clients without OAuth support can authenticate with an Authorization: Bearer header carrying an API token from API & Integrations in Apify Console.
Get a ready-to-use configuration for your MCP client with the YouTube Transcript Scraper API, No API Key Actor preconfigured at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,openkrill/youtube-transcripts.
You can connect to the Apify MCP Server using clients like Tester MCP Client, or any other MCP client of your choice.
If you want to learn more about our Apify MCP implementation, check out our MCP documentation. To learn more about the Model Context Protocol in general, refer to the official MCP documentation or read our blog post.