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YouTube Transcript Engine — Subtitles & Captions API

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Batch YouTube transcripts & subtitles — video URLs, whole channels, keyword search, channel watch. Multi-client fallback + rotating proxy retry for reliability. $0.001/video.

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$1.00 / 1,000 results

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William Billings

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Who it's for

AI/LLM builders — bulk transcript ingestion for RAG, training data, and summarization pipelines
Media monitoring — watch channels, auto-transcript every new upload on a schedule
Researchers & analysts — searchable text of talks, interviews, briefings at scale
Content teams — transcripts for repurposing, SEO, and accessibility

Why this one

YouTube gates captions per client and the gates move — single-client scrapers break weekly (that's why the biggest incumbents run double-digit failure rates). This engine fails over across 4 client identities (Android → TV → iOS → embedded) until captions resolve — and when YouTube bot-gates the datacenter IP itself, it retries through your proxy config (optional, residential recommended for heavy pipelines). Direct connections stay free; proxies only kick in when needed.

Modes

Mode	What you get
transcript	Batch list of video URLs → transcript rows (one row per video)
channel	Latest N videos from a channel → all transcripts
search	Keyword → top videos + their transcripts
watch	Channel list → newest videos auto-transcribed — schedule it

Output

One row per video: videoId, url, title, channelName, language, autoGenerated, segmentCount, text (full), segments[] (timestamped), availableLanguages, clientUsed

{
  "recordType": "transcript", "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
  "language": "en", "autoGenerated": true, "segmentCount": 210,
  "text": "We're no strangers to love ...",
  "segments": [{"startMs": 1360, "durationMs": 1680, "text": "..."}]
}

Example inputs

{ "mode": "transcript", "videoUrls": ["https://youtu.be/abc123...", "dQw4w9WgXcQ"] }
{ "mode": "channel", "channelUrls": ["@TED"], "maxVideos": 20 }
{ "mode": "search", "query": "LLM agents tutorial", "maxVideos": 10 }
{ "mode": "watch", "channelUrls": ["@TED", "@lexfridman"], "language": "en" }

Notes

Handles manual captions + auto-generated (ASR), all available languages listed per video
Videos without captions emit no_transcript rows with the reason — pipelines stay clean
Accepts URLs, bare video IDs, /shorts/ links, @handles, and UC... channel IDs

Pricing

$0.001 per video row — no subscription, no key.

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