YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Subtitles, Captions, SRT
Pricing
from $2.50 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts with timestamps as JSON, text, SRT or VTT. Videos, Shorts, whole playlists and channels, 100+ languages, manual or auto captions, video metadata. Fast, no browser, no API key; videos without captions are never charged.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Subtitles, Captions, SRT 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 '{< "videos": [< "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"< ]<}' |<apify call victorrodi/youtube-transcript-scraper-api --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper API - Subtitles, Captions, SRT 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: