YouTube Transcript Scraper ๐ (bulk, any language)
Pricing
from $2.80 / 1,000 transcript extracteds
Transcripts for a whole list of YouTube videos in one run: plain text for your LLM, timed segments for subtitles and search, plus title, channel, duration and views. Picks the language you ask for. Videos with no captions are never charged. No API key, platform usage included.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper ๐ (bulk, any language) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, youโll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "videoUrls": [12 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk",13 "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw"14 ],15 "preferredLanguages": [16 "en"17 ],18 "outputFormat": "both",19 "maxVideos": 20020};21
22// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish23const run = await client.actor("tagadanar/youtube-transcript-extractor").call(input);24
25// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)26console.log('Results from dataset');27console.log(`๐พ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);28const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();29items.forEach((item) => {30 console.dir(item);31});32
33// ๐ Want to learn more ๐? Go to โ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper ๐ (bulk, any language) API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: