YouTube Transcript Downloader & Extractor - Subtitles to JSON
Pricing
$5.00 / 1,000 video transcripts
Paste YouTube video links or ids and download each video's full transcript as JSON: the complete text, its language, word count and optional timestamps per line. Manual or auto-generated subtitles in any language, in bulk. For AI pipelines, research and content teams. Pay per transcript.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Downloader & Extractor - Subtitles to JSON programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "videoUrls": [12 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"13 ]14};15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17const run = await client.actor("s-r/free-youtube-transcript").call(input);18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)20console.log('Results from dataset');21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();23items.forEach((item) => {24 console.dir(item);25});26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Downloader & Extractor - Subtitles to JSON API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: