YouTube Transcript Scraper — RAG-Ready
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Turn YouTube into RAG-ready transcripts: chapter-grouped, chunk-ready paragraphs for LLM and search pipelines. Re-runs skip already-delivered videos to keep a corpus fresh, and failed videos are never billed. Accepts mixed video, playlist, and channel URLs. Unofficial; public data only.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "urls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"],10 "proxyConfiguration": {11 "useApifyProxy": True,12 "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],13 },14}15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17run = client.actor("vonsensey/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-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper — RAG-Ready API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: