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YouTube Transcript Scraper (AI-Ready)

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Scrape YouTube transcripts and captions from videos, playlists, and channels. Get timestamped text, language details, TXT/SRT/VTT files, and RAG-ready chunks for AI. You pay only for successful transcripts; videos without captions are free.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 transcript extracteds

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YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: Captions, SRT, VTT API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper (AI-Ready) locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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YouTube Transcript Scraper (AI-Ready) API in Python

YouTube Transcript Scraper (AI-Ready) API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript Scraper (AI-Ready) OpenAPI definition

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