YouTube transcript from manual captions only
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Skip auto-generated captions: this run returns a transcript only when a person uploaded the captions, so names and terms are spelled as the creator wrote them. If a video has no manual captions it fails free and tells you what it has.
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Yes: set captionType to auto to take only YouTube's auto-generated captions.
$0.0007 per delivered transcript ($0.70 per 1,000). No start fee, no per-run fee. A video without captions costs nothing.
Only public videos that have captions, manual or auto-generated. Private, removed and age-restricted videos cannot be read, and there is no audio transcription or translation.