Bulk YouTube transcript and subtitles scraper API. Give it one YouTube URL or a thousand (standard videos, Shorts, youtu.be links, embed and mobile URLs) and it returns the full transcript for each video: timestamped segments, clean plain text for LLM prompts, language metadata, video duration, and optional SRT, VTT, or text files. Video metadata (title, channel, views, likes, upload date, tags) comes back by default.

Pricing is pay per event at $0.00001 per video processed. A discovery mode lists every caption language a video offers before you fetch anything, free of charge. Honest limitation: it returns what YouTube has, so videos with captions disabled come back as error rows instead of killing the batch. Try the YouTube Transcript Scraper API on Apify.

35 ready-to-run example tasks

Use it from AI tools via MCP

Get YouTube transcripts in Claude Code via MCP - one command adds the tool to Claude Code

Claude Code with project-scoped MCP config - checked-in setup for whole teams

YouTube transcripts in Claude Cowork - connector setup for Cowork users

Hosted YouTube transcript MCP server - no local install, point any MCP client at it

YouTube transcripts in ChatGPT - give ChatGPT a way to actually read videos

YouTube transcripts in Cursor - quote talks straight into your editor

YouTube transcripts in VS Code - Copilot Chat fetches transcripts as context

YouTube transcripts in Windsurf - one config block for Cascade

YouTube transcripts in Cline - same tool in the open VS Code agent

Bulk downloads without rate limits or IP blocks

Download a batch of YouTube transcripts in bulk - array in, one structured row per video

Run the transcript API without IP blocks - cloud infrastructure, not your IP

Transcripts without API rate limits - no per-key quota, pay per video

YouTube transcript API in Python - ready Apify client snippet

YouTube transcript API for Node.js - same workflow in JavaScript

Translation, Shorts, and localized pages

Translate YouTube subtitles via API - request any translatable target language

Get a YouTube Shorts transcript by URL - Shorts URLs work like watch URLs

YouTube字幕下载 API - Chinese-language subtitle download guide

YouTube字幕翻译 API - Chinese-language translation guide

Скачать субтитры YouTube - Russian-language download guide

Перевод субтитров YouTube - Russian-language translation guide

Transcripts in 15 languages

YouTube transcripts in Spanish - languages: ["es"]

YouTube transcripts in French - languages: ["fr"]

YouTube transcripts in German - languages: ["de"]

YouTube transcripts in Japanese - languages: ["ja"]

YouTube transcripts in Korean - languages: ["ko"]

YouTube transcripts in Russian - languages: ["ru"]

YouTube transcripts in Hindi - languages: ["hi"]

YouTube transcripts in Portuguese - languages: ["pt"]

YouTube transcripts in Italian - languages: ["it"]

YouTube transcripts in Dutch - languages: ["nl"]

YouTube transcripts in Turkish - languages: ["tr"]

YouTube transcripts in Vietnamese - languages: ["vi"]

YouTube transcripts in Indonesian - languages: ["id"]

YouTube transcripts in Thai - languages: ["th"]

YouTube transcripts in Arabic - languages: ["ar"]

Works with MCP

The Actor runs over MCP, so Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Windsurf, VS Code, and Cline can call it as a native tool. Ask "get the transcript of this video and summarize the main arguments" and your agent fetches structured transcript rows without any scraping code.

Keywords and topics

YouTube transcript API, YouTube subtitles scraper, download YouTube transcripts in bulk, YouTube captions API, SRT and VTT export, translate YouTube subtitles, YouTube Shorts transcript, transcript API without IP blocks, MCP YouTube tool for AI agents, pay per video transcript scraper.