YouTube Transcript: Captions & Subtitles to Text, SRT, VTT
Pricing
from $1.50 / 1,000 transcripts
Get the transcript of any public YouTube video with captions as plain text, timestamped segments, SRT or VTT. Paste a whole list of videos in one run. Manual or auto captions in your language. No API key, no login. Videos without captions are never charged. Works in Claude and ChatGPT via MCP.
You can access the YouTube Transcript: Captions & Subtitles to Text, SRT, VTT 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.
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 "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],10 "language": "en",11 "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },12}13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish15run = client.actor("themineworks/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)18print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")19for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():20 print(item)21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → 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: Captions & Subtitles to Text, SRT, VTT API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: