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YouTube, TikTok & Reels Transcript — Video to Text + Hooks

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Turn YouTube, Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels URLs into text: timecoded transcript sentences, full transcript, the opening hook typed and scored, on-screen text, keywords, hashtags and chapters. Captions first, Whisper when there are none. Batch input, pay per result.

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from $15.60 / 1,000 full transcripts

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daehwan kim

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Categories

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Videos

Video URLs

videoUrls

Required

One per line, up to 200: YouTube videos and Shorts, TikTok videos and Instagram Reels (public, no login). Duplicates are processed once. Only submit videos you have the right to process; you are responsible for how you use the output and for each platform's terms.

Type:array

Layers

layers

Optional

Which rows to produce for each video. Leave empty for all. The video metadata row is always delivered.

Type:string[]

Language

language

Optional

auto detects the spoken language. Or give a two-letter code (en, es, ko, ...) to pick that caption track or force Whisper to that language.

Type:string

Hook window (seconds)

hookSeconds

Optional

How many opening seconds count as the hook. Sentences that start inside the window are kept whole.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:15

Speech-to-text model (when a video has no captions)

whisperModel

Optional

base is more accurate, tiny is faster. Both are built into the image (no download wait).

Type:string

Options:

basetiny

On-screen text: longest video to scan (seconds)

ocrMaxVideoSeconds

Optional

On-screen text is read from one frame every 2 seconds (English OCR). Videos longer than this skip that layer; everything else is still delivered.

Type:integer

Minimum:10

Maximum:1800

Time limit per video (seconds)

timeoutPerVideo

Optional

Transcription stops after this many seconds per video; the transcript delivered so far is marked truncated.

Type:integer

Minimum:60

Maximum:1800

Proxy (fallback only)

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Each video is first fetched directly. The proxy is used only when a platform refuses the direct request (YouTube often blocks cloud IPs).

Type:object

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