jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api

library

MIT

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!

Python

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Updated 19 May 2026

asr

captions

cli

python

subtitle

subtitles

transcript

transcripts

translating-transcripts

youtube

youtube-api

youtube-asr

youtube-captions

youtube-subtitles

youtube-transcript

youtube-transcripts

youtube-video

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jdepoix/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!