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YouTube Transcript API — Subtitles & Timestamps

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$2.00 / 1,000 transcripts

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John May

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YouTube Transcript API

Fast, structured YouTube transcripts and subtitles — timestamps, full text, channel-wide extraction, and translation. Perfect input for AI summarizers, RAG pipelines, and content repurposing.

Features

📝 Timestamped segments (start, duration, text) and/or joined full text
🌐 Preferred subtitle languages with fallback; human or auto-generated captions
🔁 Machine translation of any transcript to any language
📺 Channel mode: give a channel URL, get transcripts of its recent videos
⚡ No browser needed — very fast and cheap; no proxy required in most cases

Input

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"],
  "languages": ["en"],
  "format": "both",
  "translateTo": ""
}

Channel mode:

{ "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@pewdiepie"], "maxVideosPerChannel": 20 }

Output

{
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID",
  "videoId": "VIDEO_ID",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "language": "en",
  "autoGenerated": false,
  "transcript": [ { "start": 0.0, "duration": 4.2, "text": "..." } ],
  "fullText": "..."
}

Use cases

Feed podcasts/videos into LLMs (summaries, quotes, clips)
Content research and competitor channel analysis
Accessibility and multilingual content pipelines
Building search indexes over YouTube channels

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