// YouTube Transcript API
JSON · SRT · VTT
Pull any YouTube transcript as JSON, SRT or VTT — with title, channel, duration and views baked in. Residential proxies built into the price, and you pay only for successful results.
Get access// Endpoints
Transcripts, caption languages and playlist resolution — video URL or ID in, structured data out.
// Live example
See the shape of the data before you sign up.
curl 'https://<marketplace-gateway>/v1/transcript'\ '?video=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lang=en&format=json' \ -H '<auth-header>: <your-key>'
{
"videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title": "Example Video",
"channel": "Example Channel",
"duration": 213,
"viewCount": 1600000000,
"lang": "en",
"segments": [
{ "start": 0.0, "dur": 3.4, "text": "Hello there" },
{ "start": 3.4, "dur": 2.1, "text": "welcome back" }
]
}
Base URL and auth header depend on the marketplace — see the docs of the listing you pick.
No captions or an unavailable video comes back flagged — never billed.
// Pricing
All-inclusive pricing — proxy infrastructure is built in. The price on the tag is the price on the invoice.
// Use cases
// FAQ
Pick a marketplace, grab an API key, and call the transcript endpoint with a video URL or ID. You get back clean JSON, SRT or VTT — no scraping, proxies or caption parsing on your side.
Three: structured JSON with timestamps, SubRip SRT, and WebVTT — all selectable from a single request.
No. Failed lookups — no captions or an unavailable video — cost nothing. You are billed only for successful transcripts.
On Apify it is $5 per 1,000 successful transcripts, pay-per-event. Zyla API Hub also offers tiered subscription plans with all five endpoints live.
No. Residential proxy infrastructure is built into the price — the number on the tag is the number on the invoice, no extra proxy or overhead fees.
Yes. The resolve endpoint expands a playlist or channel URL into a list of video IDs — up to 500 per request — which you then batch through the transcript endpoint.
Every transcript includes video title, channel name, channel ID, duration and view count alongside the caption data.
Yes. Use listLanguages to see available tracks, then pass the lang parameter to select the one you want.
// Get access
Available now through trusted API marketplaces — pricing is on each listing.
// Early access
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