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from $1.50 / 1,000 transcripts

YouTube Transcript Scraper — Timestamps, No API Key

Get timestamped YouTube transcripts and captions as clean JSON with segments, fullText and char count. No API key, no login. Feed video transcripts straight into RAG, LLMs and AI agents via Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP server.

Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 transcripts

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The Mine Works

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5 days ago

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You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — Timestamps, No API Key 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    "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 finish
15run = 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-start

YouTube Transcript Scraper: Captions to JSON, No API API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper — Timestamps, No API Key API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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