YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, SRT & VTT
Pricing
from $8.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Get YouTube transcripts, subtitles and captions as text, timed segments, SRT or VTT, with video details, from videos, Shorts, live replays, playlists and whole channels. Manual and auto-generated captions in any language, optional auto-translation. Pay only for transcripts delivered.
You can access the YouTube Transcript Scraper: Channels, SRT & VTT 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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