SCscrapecreators
YouTube

Transcript

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Retrieves publicly available captions, subtitles, or transcripts from a YouTube video or Short. Returns both a timestamped transcript array with start/end times and a plain-text version in transcript_only_text. Supports specifying a language code. Videos of any length are supported when YouTube exposes public captions. This endpoint does not use AI transcription. A returned transcript costs 1 credit; missing captions cost 0 credits. If no matching caption track is available, the transcript fields return null.

get/v1/youtube/video/transcript

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.scrapecreators.com
  • URL
    https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/youtube/video/transcript
  • Auth
    API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

urlstring required

YouTube video or short URL

languagestring

Language code, ie 'en', 'es', 'fr' or 'en-US'. Overrides the default track selection unless original_audio=true. If omitted, prefers captions matching the original spoken language when YouTube identifies the original audio. If that metadata is unavailable or ambiguous, prefers an auto-generated caption, otherwise the first caption track. If the requested or identified original language has no matching captions, the transcript will be null and no credits are charged.

original_audioboolean

Set to true to return captions only in the original spoken language identified by YouTube. Takes precedence over language. If the original audio cannot be reliably identified or has no matching captions, transcript, transcript_only_text, and language are null and no credits are charged. No extra lookup or credit cost; a returned transcript costs the usual 1 credit. Omit or set to false for the existing default selection.

cache_max_age'1d' | '3d' | '7d' | '14d' | '30d'

If we have a response in the cache that is this many days old or newer, return the cached response (0 credits, with "cached": true and a "cached_at" timestamp). Otherwise, scrape a live result (1 credit). See the Caching page for details.

Response

Successful response

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