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 = { "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("santhej/youtube-transcript-scraper").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

YouTube Transcript Scraper API in Python

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.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

YouTube Transcript Scraper API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript Scraper API through CLI

YouTube Transcript Scraper OpenAPI definition

YouTube Transcript Scraper API

YouTube Transcript Scraper — Get Subtitles & Captions

thriftykiwi/youtube-transcript-scraper

Extract subtitles and captions from any YouTube video. List available languages and download full transcripts. No API key required — uses the public youtube-transcript service.

Thrifty Kiwi

YouTube Transcript Scraper

thescrappa/youtube-transcript-scraper

Extract YouTube transcript segments and full transcript text by video ID.

Scrappa

Youtube Transcript - 1$/month

insight_api_labs/youtube-transcript

Youtube Transcript (with video details and transcript timestamps)

InsightAPILabs

941

3.1

YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions & Subtitles API

scrapers-hub/youtube-transcript-scraper

YouTube Transcript Scraper extracts timestamped transcripts, captions and subtitles from any public YouTube video in 18 languages. No API key.

Scrapers Hub

YouTube Transcript Scraper

devscrapper/youtube-transcript-scraper

YouTube Transcript Scraper – Fast, Clean & Reliable

Oussama Production

YouTube Transcript Extractor

startuphub/youtube-transcript

Get the full text transcript of any YouTube video by URL or ID, with title, channel, and duration.

StartupHub

YouTube Video Transcript — Subtitles & Captions Extractor

maged120/youtube-transcript

Extract the full transcript/subtitles from any YouTube video. Returns timestamped text in your chosen language — ready for summarization, translation, or search indexing.

Maged

YouTube Subtitles & Transcript Scraper API

cliqtomedia/youtube-transcript-scraper

Get public YouTube subtitles and full transcripts with timestamps from up to 5 video links.

Cliqto Media

Youtube Transcript API

vivid_astronaut/youtube-transcript

BRAINIALL Team

YouTube Transcript Scraper – Video Captions & Subtitles by URL

endspec/youtube-instant-transcript-scraper

Extract the full transcript of any YouTube video by URL or ID: timestamped caption segments plus clean, joined plain text. Batch many videos in one run. No login, no cookies, no YouTube API key. Pay only per transcript returned.