YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlists
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 transcript scrapeds
Bulk-extract YouTube transcripts (manual or auto captions) with timestamps as text, SRT, VTT or JSON – original language or auto-translated. Videos, Shorts & playlists; includes title, channel, duration, views, publish date. $2 per 1,000 videos.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlists 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.
$echo '{< "videoUrls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"< ]<}' |<apify call pulsedata/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper – Subtitles, Captions, Playlists locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: