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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions & Subtitles to Text

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Get transcripts of YouTube videos, Shorts, live replays, playlists and channels as clean text, timestamped lines or timed segments. Pick the language and human or auto-generated captions. Title, channel, views and duration included. No API key or login.

Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 transcripts

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Developer

Santiago Marcos

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Monthly active users

13 days ago

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Videos

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions & Subtitles to Text 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": [
9        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",
10        "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("santiagomv/youtube-transcripts").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions & Subtitles to Text API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions & Subtitles to Text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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