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YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second

Real-time YouTube transcript API: send one YouTube link to an always-on web address and get the transcript and captions back in 0.2–0.7 seconds once warm, with likes, chapters and comments on request. For chatbots, voice assistants and AI agents; unreachable videos are free.

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Pay per usage

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nokia2k

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Real-Time YouTube Transcript API – Always On API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second API in Python

YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second API in JavaScript

YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second OpenAPI definition

YouTube Transcript API 🚨 Real-Time, Under 1 Second API

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Fast YouTube transcripts & subtitles for videos, Shorts, whole channels, playlists and search results. Plain text, timestamps or SRT, any language. $2 per 1,000 transcripts, videos without captions are free.

TrendsData

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A simple, fast, and cheap way to get YouTube Transcripts.

tolu.

YouTube Transcript

agentx/youtube-transcript

YouTube Transcript provides structured text from one public YouTube video for indexing, chapter research, summarization, and automation. Output includes detected language, ordered timestamped segments, video metadata, and optional translation into 133 languages. Transcripts start at $0.3483.

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Get the full text transcript of any YouTube video by URL or ID, with title, channel, and duration.

StartupHub

YouTube Transcript API

api_merge/youtube-transcript-api

Get YouTube transcripts, captions, and subtitles from any video URL or video ID. Export results as JSON, text, SRT, or WebVTT for automation and analysis.