YouTube Transcript API

Request Body

{
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "language": "en"
}

Parameters

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Video Title",
  "transcript": [
    {
      "text": "Hello world",
      "start": 0.5,
      "duration": 2.3
    }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "method": "youtube-transcript"
}

Example Usage

// JavaScript/Node.js
const response = await fetch('https://youtubetranscripts.app/api/transcript', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    videoId: 'dQw4w9WgXcQ',
    language: 'en'
  })
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.transcript);