YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions, SRT, AI Transcription
Pricing
from $3.50 / 1,000 transcript delivereds
Get YouTube transcripts and subtitles from video, Shorts, channel, playlist or search links as text, timestamps, SRT or VTT. Any caption language or translated; AI audio transcription when a video has no captions. Only-new-videos mode for schedules. For AI agents, MCP and n8n. Pay per transcript.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions, SRT, AI Transcription 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "videoUrls": [10 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",11 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",12 ],13 "proxyConfiguration": {14 "useApifyProxy": True,15 "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],16 },17}18
19# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish20run = client.actor("scrapewise/youtube-transcript").call(run_input=run_input)21
22# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)23print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")24for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():25 print(item)26
27# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper - Captions, SRT, AI Transcription API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: