Get a YouTube video's transcript as plain text for AI
Give a video's link and get its whole transcript in one text field, with the caption lines and their timestamps, the title, channel, length and the languages the video has. Built for AI summaries, RAG and agents: send the text on in Make, n8n or your own code. $0.003 per transcript; a video without captions is stored with the reason and not charged.
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