Pricing

Pay per usage

YouTube Video Transcript & Subtitles Scraper [AI Ready]

Lightning-fast YouTube video transcript and subtitles extractor. Get full timestamped transcripts, clean plain text, video titles, view counts, and metadata for AI summarization and RAG.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

0.0

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Developer

Stepan Pagerka

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Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

5 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Marketing

Developer examples

You can access the YouTube Video Transcript & Subtitles Scraper [AI Ready] 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 = {
9    "videoUrls": [
10        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
11        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
12    ],
13    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("pagerka/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
21for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Video Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Video Transcript & Subtitles Scraper [AI Ready] API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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YouTube Video Transcript & Subtitles Scraper [AI Ready] OpenAPI definition

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