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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!
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

youtube-transcript-api has 39.6M monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 1.2.4 supports Python <3.15,>=3.8, first published in 2018.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is built on top of defusedxml and requests. It is used by 305 tracked packages, including crewai-tools, openhands-aci and open-webui.

GitHub topics include youtube-api, subtitles and youtube.

Downloads
Day
1.2M
Week
11.0M
Month
39.6M
Stars
7.8K
Forks
796
Issues
18
Version
1.2.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
83
Adoption
90
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
54 days ago
Monthly downloads
39,550,174
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
39,550,174
Stars
7,844
Stars per 1k downloads
0.20
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,577,166
Month daily avg
1,318,339
Momentum
+19.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.15,>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
158 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
4.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
23
Monthly downloads
39,550,174
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
• Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
71
 
Issue Burden
2.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
5.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
104d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.2M
Windows 27.3K
macOS 12.3K

Python Versions

3.13
72.9% 914.8K
3.11
13.2% 165.5K
3.12
9.2% 115.3K
3.10
3.5% 44.3K
3.14
1.2% 15.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.1M
2. SG SG
31.9K
3. JP JP
20.1K
4. DE DE
9.8K
5. IN IN
8.3K
6. CN CN
6.3K
7. BR BR
6.3K
8. FR FR
5.8K
9. GB GB
5.6K
10. KR KR
5.3K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 3, 2018
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.2.4
Total Releases
35
Contributors
23
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Jonas Depoix
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
cli subtitle subtitles transcript transcripts youtube youtube-api youtube-subtitles youtube-transcripts
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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