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!
Supports multi-language transcript retrieval with priority-based fallback, subtitle translation, and metadata filtering to distinguish between manually-created and auto-generated captions. Extracts transcripts by directly parsing YouTube's client-side data structures rather than relying on browser automation, returning structured objects with timing information and optional HTML formatting preservation. Provides both programmatic Python API and CLI interfaces for integration into data pipelines or content analysis workflows.
7,078 stars and 27,416,843 monthly downloads. Used by 25 other packages. Actively maintained with 3 commits in the last 30 days. Available on PyPI.
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Python
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MIT
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Last pushed
Mar 09, 2026
Monthly downloads
27,416,843
Commits (30d)
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2
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25
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