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YouTube Subtitles & Transcript Scraper API - Channels

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Bulk YouTube transcript API. YouTube to text: get YouTube transcripts for videos, YouTube Shorts, playlists, channels: each YouTube video transcript, subtitles, captions as text, JSON, YouTube SRT, VTT, RAG chunks; YouTube translation; YouTube transcript MCP. YouTube channel, playlist transcripts.

Pricing

from $2.13 / 1,000 transcripts

Rating

4.0

(1)

Developer

Saulius AutomatesIT

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Bookmarked

117

Total users

Monthly active users

4 days ago

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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.

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 = { "videoUrls": [
9        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
10        "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("sauliusautomatesit/youtube-transcript-scraper").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 API & Subtitle Downloader (Bulk) API in Python

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

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