---
title: "Video › Transcript"
method: GET
path: "/v1/youtube/video/transcript"
tags: ["youtube"]
---

# Video › Transcript

`GET /v1/youtube/video/transcript`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.insightsocial.app`
- URL: `https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/youtube/video/transcript`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Returns the spoken transcript of a video as timestamped segments, each with text, start time and duration, plus language, word count, and speech rate.

Use it for a single video URL; when the video has no captions the reply is a 404 naming the reason, which is expected rather than a failure.

**30 credits** per call.

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `language` string
- `dry_run` '1'

## Response `200`

Success.

- object
  - `success` true, required
  - `platform` string, required
  - `endpoint` string, required
  - `schema_version` '2', required
  - `data` TranscriptOne, required
    - `transcript` Transcript, required
      - `language` string, nullable, required: The content's language as the platform states it, e.g. en, pt-BR. Detected languages come later (§7.1).
      - `text` string, nullable, required
      - `segments` object[], nullable, required
        - `text` string, required
        - `start_seconds` number, nullable, required
        - `duration_seconds` number, nullable, required
  - `pagination` Pagination
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable, required
    - `has_more` boolean, required
    - `page_size` integer, required
    - `stopped_at` 'since' | 'known_id' | 'end', nullable
  - `unavailable` string[], required
  - `credits_used` integer, required
  - `credits_remaining` integer, required
  - `request_id` string, required
  - `cached` boolean, required
  - `idempotent_replay` boolean, required
  - `charge_reason` string, required
  - `free_call` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `400`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).
- `401`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).
- `402`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).
- `404`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).
- `409`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).
- `429`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).
- `500`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).
- `503`: See [Error handling](https://www.insightsocial.app/docs/errors).

---

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