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

# Transcript

`GET /v1/youtube/video/transcript`

Retrieves the captions, subtitles, or transcript of 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. There is no two-minute limit for YouTube. Long videos, including podcasts, work when YouTube exposes public captions. If no matching caption track is available, the transcript fields return null.

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `language` string
- `cache_max_age` '1d' | '3d' | '7d' | '14d' | '30d'

## Response `200`

Successful response

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