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YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper: Captions, SRT, API

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YouTube transcript API and subtitles scraper: video transcripts and captions with timestamps, SRT and metadata from video URLs, Shorts, @channels, playlists or search keywords. Manual or auto captions, 100+ languages, auto-translate. LLM/RAG-ready text. Pay only per transcript.

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from $3.50 / 1,000 transcript scrapeds

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Torix

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Automation

You can access the YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper: Captions, SRT, API 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    "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
10    "proxyConfiguration": {
11        "useApifyProxy": True,
12        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
13    },
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("torix33/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
21for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper: Captions, SRT, API API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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