YouTube Transcript Scraper
Pricing
from $4.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube video transcripts and subtitles at scale. Extract plain text, timestamped segments, SRT and VTT, plus title, channel, views, and keywords. Optional Whisper AI fallback for caption-less videos.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "startUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],10 "maxItems": 100,11 "language": "",12 "whisperMaxMinutes": 30,13 "maxConcurrency": 10,14 "proxyConfiguration": {15 "useApifyProxy": True,16 "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],17 },18}19
20# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish21run = client.actor("parsebird/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)22
23# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)24print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")25for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():26 print(item)27
28# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: