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YouTube Transcript API for Agents (pay per success)

YouTube transcripts for AI agents: JSON/text/SRT with timestamps. Charged ONLY on delivered transcript - no captions or dead video = no charge. Residential proxy built in; reliable at 1,000+ videos/run.

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YouTube Transcript API for Agents â€” pay per successful transcript

Get YouTube video transcripts with timestamps in JSON, plain text, or SRT â€” priced for AI agents and automation fleets: you are charged only when a transcript is actually delivered. No captions, private/deleted video, or any failure on our side = an error record and no charge.

Why this one

Pay per success, not per attempt. Most transcript tools charge for the run regardless of result. Here the transcript event fires only on a delivered transcript.
Built for volume. Residential proxy routing is on by default â€” no "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" failures that break datacenter scrapers. Reliable at 1,000+ videos per run.
Always-fresh extractor. The YouTube backend churns constantly; this actor auto-updates its extraction engine on every run, so it doesn't silently rot.
Timestamps included. Segment-level start/dur in JSON mode, proper SRT subtitle output, or clean plain text for LLM ingestion.

Input

{
  "videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw", "dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "format": "json",
  "lang": "en"
}

videos â€” YouTube URLs or 11-character video IDs, any mix
format â€” json (segments + timestamps), text (plain transcript), srt (subtitles)
lang â€” caption language; manual captions preferred, auto-generated fallback

Output (dataset, one item per video)

{
  "video": "dQw4w9WgXcQ", "ok": true, "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "language": "en", "source": "manual",
  "segments": [{"start": 18.8, "dur": 3.6, "text": "We're no strangers to love"}],
  "transcript": "We're no strangers to love ..."
}

Failed videos come back with "ok": false and an error string â€” uncharged.

Use cases

RAG pipelines and LLM knowledge bases Â· content research and summarization at scale Â· podcast/interview mining Â· compliance and brand monitoring Â· dataset building Â· any agent workflow that needs "what was said in this video" as cheap structured data.

Also available over x402

The same engine runs as a pay-per-call HTTP API for x402-native agents (USDC on Base, no account needed): https://transcriptd.fly.dev â€” same pay-only-on-delivery guarantee.

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