YouTube transcripts scraper

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.

Run YouTube transcripts scraper on Apify

What it's for

• transcripts / captions / subtitles of YouTube videos as text, timestamped segments or SRT
• transcripts of every video in a channel, playlist or search
• replacement for youtube-transcript-api when it raises RequestBlocked / IpBlocked
• drop-in replacement for other Apify YouTube transcript/subtitle Actors: accepts startUrls + timestamps and videoUrl + targetLanguage, returns the same fields (videoUrl, videoId, videoTitle, channelName, views, language, text, data) at $0.003 per transcript

Price

• $0.003 per transcript

Call it with curl

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/wulfcare~youtube-transcript-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"   -H "content-type: application/json"   -d '{"urls":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc"],"languages":["en"]}'

Call it from Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("wulfcare/youtube-transcript-scraper").call(run_input={'urls': ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc'],
 'languages': ['en']})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Use it from an AI agent

Add this MCP server to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=wulfcare/youtube-transcript-scraper

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Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with the token from your Apify account. Prices are for Apify's free plan and can change.