Youtube Transcript Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Extract YouTube video transcripts, subtitles, captions, timestamps, video metadata, and text at scale. Scrape accurate transcript data from YouTube URLs for AI training, LLM datasets, content analysis, research, SEO, summarization, and automation workflows.
You can access the Youtube Transcript 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, youβll 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 "video_urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pq7jlR0R6o"],10 "language": "English",11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("shahidirfan/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"πΎ 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# π Want to learn more π? Go to β 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 API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: