YouTube Transcript & Subtitles API – AI, Channels, Shorts

YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API

johnvc/YoutubeTranscripts

Scrape YouTube transcripts, subtitles, and captions in bulk, the cheapest pay-per-video YouTube transcript API on Apify. Callable from any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT). Supports YouTube videos, Shorts, and every URL format.

YouTube Video Transcript

starvibe/youtube-video-transcript

This Apify Actor extracts full transcripts (with timestamps) and metadata from YouTube videos, including title, description, upload date, views, likes, channel info, and duration

Instagram Transcript Scraper — Instagram Reels Transcript API

steadyfetch/instagram-reel-transcript-scraper

Instagram reel transcripts: a creator's reels as text — full speech-to-text, the first-3s hook, language and timestamps, one row per reel with its date, plays and likes. Handle in, paste reel links, or chain a dataset ID. No login, any length. Music-only, private and failed reels are never charged.

Instagram Comments Scraper

apify/instagram-comment-scraper

Scrape Instagram comments from posts or reels. Just add one or more Instagram post URLs to get comment text, post and comment IDs, replies, timestamp, owner IDs, usernames, profile pics. Export scraped datasets, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.

RAG Web Browser

apify/rag-web-browser

Web search and fetch tool for AI agents and RAG pipelines. It queries Google Search, scrapes the top N pages using a full web browser, and returns their content as clean Markdown for further processing by an LLM. Can also fetch individual URLs.

Fast YouTube Channel Scraper

streamers/youtube-channel-scraper

This alternative YouTube Data API has no limits or quotas. Use it to scrape one or multiple YouTube channels: channel info, URL, total number of subscribers, videos and views, creation date. Try it and get basic video data. You can download extracted data in JSON, CSV, and Excel.

Video Transcript API: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook

amrameng/video-transcript-api

Get transcripts from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, and media files. Always returns clean text, even for videos without subtitles. Plain text or timestamped chunks, in bulk or via a real-time API. A pay-as-you-go Supadata alternative.

YouTube Transcript Extractor

akash9078/youtube-transcript-extractor

Extract accurate YouTube video transcripts and timestamped captions without an API key. Supports YouTube Shorts, live stream VODs, Premieres, embedded videos, and auto-generated subtitles in 100+ languages. Fast YouTube transcript extractor for SEO, AI, research, and content creation.

Web Fetch

apify/web-fetch

Download any web page by URL and convert it to clean Markdown, plain text, HTML, and other formats. Automatically renders JavaScript and works around bot blocking. The Actor provides a real-time API for quick response times.

Fast YouTube transcripts & subtitles for videos, Shorts, whole channels, playlists and search results. Plain text, timestamps or SRT, any language. $2 per 1,000 transcripts, videos without captions are free.