📹 YouTube Transcript Fetcher (APIFY)

Fetch YouTube video transcripts from anywhere — even cloud servers where YouTube blocks direct access.

✨ Features

• Works from cloud IPs (AWS, GCP, VPS, etc.)
• Bypasses YouTube bot detection via APIFY proxies
• Local caching (v1.1.0+) — repeat requests are FREE
• Batch mode (v1.1.0+) — process multiple videos at once
• Cache management — --cache-stats, --clear-cache, --no-cache
• Text or JSON output with timestamps
• Language preference support
• Simple Python script, no SDK needed

💰 Free Tier

APIFY offers $5/month free credits — that's approximately 714 videos per month at $0.007 each!

No credit card required. Sign up here

🚀 Quick Start

# 1. Set your API token
export APIFY_API_TOKEN="apify_api_YOUR_TOKEN"
 
# 2. Fetch a transcript
python3 scripts/fetch_transcript.py "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

📖 Documentation

See SKILL.md for full documentation, setup instructions, and usage examples.

🔗 Links

• APIFY Free Tier - $5/month free
• Get API Key
• YouTube Transcripts Actor

⚙ Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• requests library (pip install requests)
• APIFY API token (free)

📄 License

MIT