YouTube Transcript Scraper — subtitles & captions to text
Pricing
$5.00 / 1,000 transcript fetcheds
Video URLs or IDs in, full transcripts out: plain text plus timestamped segments, language selection, auto-generated and manual captions. Videos without transcripts are reported and never charged.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper — subtitles & captions 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.
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 "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"],10 "languages": ["en"],11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("x402opklaar/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 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 — subtitles & captions to text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: