YouTube Subtitle Scraper & Transcript API: SRT, VTT, $10/1K
Pricing
from $8.00 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube subtitles, captions and transcripts for any video, Short, live replay, playlist or channel: text, timed segments, SRT or VTT, with video details. Manual and auto-generated captions in any language, optional auto-translation. $10 per 1,000 videos; no-caption videos are free.
You can access the YouTube Subtitle Scraper & Transcript API: SRT, VTT, $10/1K 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 "videos": [10 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc",11 "https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU",12 ],13 "languages": ["en"],14 "outputFormats": [15 "text",16 "segments",17 ],18 "proxyConfiguration": {19 "useApifyProxy": True,20 "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],21 },22}23
24# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish25run = client.actor("zaiq/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)26
27# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)28print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")29for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():30 print(item)31
32# 📚 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 Subtitle Scraper & Transcript API: SRT, VTT, $10/1K API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: