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YouTube Transcript & Subtitle Scraper

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Turn public YouTube videos and Shorts into clean transcript text, timestamped segments, SRT, WebVTT, Markdown, and RAG-ready chunks. No YouTube API key or YouTube login is required.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 transcript extracteds

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Developer

Sebastián S

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Monthly active users

8 days ago

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Categories

Videos

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Developer tools

You can access the YouTube Transcript & Subtitle 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 = { "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("sebastian-actors/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

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

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