YouTube Subtitles & Transcript Scraper API - Channels
Pricing
from $2.13 / 1,000 transcripts
Bulk YouTube transcript API. YouTube to text for any video, Short, playlist, search or whole channel: each YouTube video transcript, subtitles and captions as text, JSON, YouTube SRT, VTT or RAG chunks, also via MCP. YouTube channel and playlist transcripts. $2.50 per 1,000; no captions, no charge.
You can access the YouTube Subtitles & Transcript Scraper API - Channels 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 '{< "videoUrls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",< "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw"< ]<}' |<apify call sauliusautomatesit/youtube-transcript-scraper --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Subtitles & Transcript Scraper API - Channels 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: