YouTube Channel Transcript Scraper - Whole Channel to Text
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Hand it a channel and get that channel's words back. Every upload is expanded, transcribed and returned as one clean dataset with timings and chapters - a full back catalogue ready for search, analysis or an AI pipeline. Set how many videos per channel, and pay only for what lands.
You can access the YouTube Channel Transcript Scraper - Whole Channel to Text programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "urls": [12 "https://www.youtube.com/@TED"13 ],14 "formats": [15 "text"16 ],17 "proxyConfiguration": {18 "useApifyProxy": true,19 "apifyProxyGroups": [20 "RESIDENTIAL"21 ]22 }23};24
25// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish26const run = await client.actor("vonsensey/youtube-channel-transcript-scraper").call(input);27
28// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)29console.log('Results from dataset');30console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);31const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();32items.forEach((item) => {33 console.dir(item);34});35
36// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Channel Transcript Scraper - Whole Channel to Text API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: