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YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: channels, playlists, captions

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Get the transcript (captions or subtitles) of any YouTube video as clean text or timestamped segments, from video URLs, whole channels, playlists or search. Any language, auto-generated or manual, plus title, channel, views, likes and date. No API key, $1 per 1,000.

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from $1.00 / 1,000 transcripts

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Developer

Spyridon Pikoulas

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: channels, playlists, captions 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 = { "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("pikoulas/youtube-transcripts").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: channels, playlists, captions API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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