API Reference

YouTube Transcript

Extract the transcript (captions) from a YouTube video with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manually created captions in multiple languages.

Use this to get what is said in a YouTube video as timed text segments. Useful for summarizing videos, searching inside them, and feeding them to an LLM.

3 credits per request.

Quick example

curl -G "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/v1/youtube_transcript" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $WEBSCRAPERAPI_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "video_id=hHQlcnubuFI" \
  --data-urlencode "language=en" \
  --data-urlencode "output=json"

video_id takes a video ID or a full YouTube URL. Leave out language to get the first transcript available. is_generated tells you whether the captions were created automatically.

Full API reference

GET
/v1/youtube_transcript

Query Parameters

video_id*string

YouTube video ID or URL.

Length1 <= length
language?|

Preferred language code (e.g. 'en', 'es'). Defaults to first available.

output?|

Output format. Defaults to json.

timeout_ms?|

Request timeout in milliseconds.

Response Body

application/json

application/json

curl -X GET "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/v1/youtube_transcript?video_id=string"
null
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "details": {}
  }
}

Email Addresses

Extract email addresses from a web page with optional CSS selector narrowing. Each result reports the address as written on the page, whether its syntax is valid, its normalized and ASCII forms, and whether DNS says the domain accepts mail.

YouTube Video

Get metadata for a YouTube video including title, description, view count, likes, duration, tags, and channel info.