Youtube Transcript Python Packages

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!

ytfetcher

⚡ Build structured YouTube datasets at scale — effortlessly fetch transcripts and rich metadata for NLP, ML, and AI workflows.

tubescrape

A fast, lightweight Python toolkit for scraping YouTube without an API key. Search videos with filters, browse channel content (videos, shorts, playlists), fetch and translate transcripts, and scrape full playlists

youtube-transcript-tools

A tool to fetch YouTube video transcripts via Web UI and CLI

youtubetranscriptdevapi

Official Python SDK for YouTubeTranscript.dev — extract, transcribe, and translate YouTube video transcripts

yt-transcript-extractor

CLI tool to extract YouTube transcripts and export to Markdown, JSON, TXT, and SRT