YouTube video transcripts with timestamps
Paste YouTube video URLs, Shorts links or video ids and get each video's full transcript text plus timestamped caption lines, with title, channel and caption language, as JSON. Human captions first, auto-generated as fallback. $0.005 per transcript; videos without captions free.
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