YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: Captions, Subtitles, Shorts
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Bulk YouTube transcripts from videos, Shorts, channels, playlists and searches, in the language spoken. Text with timestamps, SRT and VTT, chapters, exact comment count and subscribers, and a watch mode that returns only new videos. Videos without captions are not charged.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: Captions, Subtitles, Shorts 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 '{< "urls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPQjjsBbIc"< ],< "maxVideosPerSource": 10,< "proxyConfiguration": {< "useApifyProxy": true< }<}' |<apify call quarra/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: Captions, Subtitles, Shorts 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: