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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Get transcripts from YouTube videos, Shorts, live streams, channels, playlists and search results as text, timestamped segments, SRT or WebVTT. No login or API key. You are charged only for rows that return a transcript.

Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 transcripts

Rating

5.0

(1)

Developer

Rastriq — Structured data from the world

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Monthly active users

9 days ago

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Categories

Videos

Social media

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.

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 = {
9    "urls": [
10        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
11        "https://www.youtube.com/@TED",
12    ],
13    "maxVideosPerSource": 5,
14    "languages": ["en"],
15    "proxyConfiguration": {
16        "useApifyProxy": True,
17        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
18    },
19}
20
21# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
22run = client.actor("rastriq/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
23
24# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
25print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
26for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
27    print(item)
28
29# 📚 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 in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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