YouTube Transcripts: Videos, Playlists & Channels
Pricing
from $3.50 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts as clean text, timestamped segments, SRT, or AI-ready chunks for RAG. Paste videos, whole playlists or channels, pick your languages, and never pay for videos without captions.
You can access the YouTube Transcripts: Videos, Playlists & Channels 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.
$echo '{< "urls": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"< ]<}' |<apify call t3data/youtube-transcripts --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcripts: Videos, Playlists & Channels locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: