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youtube-transcript-api

This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require an API key nor a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!

Category
Speech-to-text
Type
Open source
Platform
Python project
Pricing
Free / open source
License
MIT
GitHub stars
8,038
Last updated
2026-05-19

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