YouTube Transcript API — Captions & Subtitles
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from $1.80 / 1,000 transcript scrapes
YouTube Transcript API — Captions & Subtitles
Get YouTube video transcript/captions by URL without login or API key. Returns per-language segments (text + timestamps) and full text.
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from $1.80 / 1,000 transcript scrapes
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RD.Galih Rakasiwi
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YouTube Transcript by URL — No Login, No API Key
Stateless API that returns a YouTube video's transcript/captions by URL without login or API key.
Returns every available language with segments (text + start/duration timestamps) and a plain full_text.
Endpoints
POST /scrape— body{"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..."}GET /scrape?url=...GET /health
Example output
{"platform": "youtube","video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ","transcripts": {"en": {"language": "English","is_generated": false,"segments": [{"text": "...", "start": 0.0, "duration": 3.2}],"full_text": "We're no strangers to love..."}},"scraped_at": "..."}
Note
For videos with no captions at all, a speech-to-text fallback (e.g. Whisper) can be added as a future enhancement.
No storage
Fully stateless. No database, no cache, no Redis.
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