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YouTube Transcript & Subtitle Scraper: Channels & Playlists

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YouTube transcripts and subtitles as text, timestamped text, segments or SRT for videos, Shorts, channels, playlists and searches. $0.003 each, no-caption videos free. Drop-in for other transcript Actors: same startUrls/timestamps or videoUrl/targetLanguage input and output fields.

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from $2.40 / 1,000 transcripts

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Wulfcare Data

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

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MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "urls": [
10        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc",
11        "https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown",
12    ],
13    "maxVideosPerSource": 20,
14    "languages": ["en"],
15    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
16}
17
18# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
19run = client.actor("wulfcare/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
20
21# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
22print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
23for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
24    print(item)
25
26# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

YouTube Transcript & Subtitle API: Captions, SRT, $3/1k API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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