youtube-transcript-api
✅ Recently maintainedThis 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!
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Python · MIT · Last push 2026-10-30
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Get the project
git clone https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api.git
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