YouTube Transcript API - Bulk Video Transcripts, Fast
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Used by RAG builders and content teams that need YouTube as text, at scale. YouTube transcript API: send one URL or ten thousand, videos, playlists and channels mixed, and get clean timestamped text back in one pass. Structured JSON per row. You pay only for transcripts delivered.
Mixed list of YouTube URLs. Individual videos, playlists, channels, and @handles are all accepted — each playlist or channel URL is expanded into its videos automatically.
[ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"]Ordered language preference for the transcript. BCP-47 tags or prefixes are accepted (e.g. "en" matches en, en-US, en-GB; "pt-BR" matches only Brazilian Portuguese). The first available match wins. Leave empty to take the video's default caption track.
Return every available caption track instead of just the best language match. Warning: this returns one dataset item per caption track, and each track is billed as one transcript.
When expanding channel URLs, also include Shorts. By default channel expansion covers long-form uploads only.
Maximum number of videos to take from each playlist or channel URL, applied per source URL independently. Direct video URLs are not affected.
Extract chapter markers and upload date for each video. Disabling this saves one request per video and leaves uploadDate null.
Additional rendered formats to include on each dataset item. Structured JSON segments are always included.
[ "text"]Skip videos already delivered by previous runs sharing the same state label. Useful for scheduled re-runs that should only pick up new uploads.
Names the persistent delivered-state store used by "Only new videos". Runs sharing a label share the same delivered-video memory.
Proxy settings for YouTube requests. Residential is the default because YouTube blocks most datacenter IPs for caption fetching (measured ~21% success on datacenter vs ~95% on residential). Keep residential unless you have your own proxy URLs. Optional — proxy is handled for you and its cost is included in the price. Only set this if you have a specific reason.