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!

youtube-context-mcp

YouTube context for AI agents over MCP: transcripts (plain/timestamped), metadata, most-replayed heatmap peaks, and deep links to any moment.

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

harnais-web-extractor

Two-stage web article extraction (trafilatura + Playwright fallback) with YouTube transcript support. CLI + library, JSON or Markdown output. No framework.

ytfetcher

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

youtubetranscriptdevapi

Official Python client for the YouTubeTranscript.dev API — extract, transcribe, and translate YouTube video transcripts.

yt-transcript-extractor

A CLI tool to extract and save YouTube video transcriptions with metadata

youtube-transcript-tools

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