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$3.00 / 1,000 transcripts

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YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Playlists & Search

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Get YouTube transcripts (captions and subtitles) as plain text, timestamped segments or SRT for videos, Shorts, whole channels, playlists and searches. Pick the language, fall back to auto-generated captions, and get title, channel, publish date, views and duration with each one.

Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 transcripts

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Wulfcare Data

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

a day ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Playlists & Search 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "urls": [
12        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc",
13        "https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown"
14    ],
15    "maxVideosPerSource": 20,
16    "languages": [
17        "en"
18    ],
19    "proxyConfiguration": {
20        "useApifyProxy": true
21    }
22};
23
24// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
25const run = await client.actor("wulfcare/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(input);
26
27// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
28console.log('Results from dataset');
29console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
30const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
31items.forEach((item) => {
32    console.dir(item);
33});
34
35// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

YouTube Transcript Scraper & API: Captions, Subtitles, SRT API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Playlists & Search API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Playlists & Search API in Python

YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Playlists & Search API through CLI

YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, Playlists & Search OpenAPI definition

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