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YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Transcripts of YouTube videos, playlists and whole channels in the language you ask for, with timestamps, SRT/VTT and video metadata. Every video gets a row that says why when there is no transcript. No login, no browser.

Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 transcripts

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Steady Scrape

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

6 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

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, 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 = {
9    "urls": [
10        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc",
11        "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw",
12    ],
13    "language": "en",
14    "formats": [
15        "text",
16        "segments",
17    ],
18}
19
20# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
21run = client.actor("steadyscrape/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
22
23# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
24print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
25for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
26    print(item)
27
28# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper: videos, playlists, channels API in Python

The 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-client

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