YouTube Transcripts - Bulk, Multi-Language & RAG-ready
Pricing
from $2.40 / 1,000 transcripts
Bulk YouTube transcripts: videos, playlists and channels in ONE run - the others take one at a time. Language preference that favours human-written subtitles, RAG-ready chunks with timestamps, SRT and VTT, full metadata. Videos without subtitles are never charged.
You can access the YouTube Transcripts - Bulk, Multi-Language & RAG-ready 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.
$echo '{< "startUrls": [< {< "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"< }< ],< "languages": [< "en"< ]<}' |<apify call victor187/youtube-transcripts-bulk --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcripts - Bulk, Multi-Language & RAG-ready locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: