YouTube Transcript Scraper + English Translation
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 transcript delivereds
Get YouTube transcripts in the language actually spoken, in its own script, plus an English version for 60+ languages. Urdu in Urdu script, RTL-safe Arabic, clean Japanese and Chinese. Timestamps, SRT/VTT, RAG chunks, Shorts. From $2 per 1,000 videos. Failed videos are free.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper + English Translation 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.
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