YouTube API endpoint
Retrieve transcript for a YouTube video
Returns transcript segments for a YouTube video using YouTube's native player captions. Set `format=text`, `format=srt`, or `format=vtt` to receive plain-text output instead of the standard response envelope.
GETapiKey3 credits/requestyoutube.transcriptResponseDoc
/youtube/transcript/{id}Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Enum | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | path | string | Yes | YouTube video ID (11-character code) | ||
| lang | query | string | No | Preferred transcript language | ||
| translate_to | query | string | No | Translate transcript to this language code | ||
| format | query | string | No | json, text, srt, vtt | Response format | |
| timestamps | query | boolean | No | Include timestamps in the JSON response | ||
| x-api-key | header | string | Yes | API key required |
Authentication
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Billing
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
- Credit cost
- 3 credits/request
- Charged response
- Successful 2xx responses
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
Catalog quality warnings
- missing example for required path param: id
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Missing or invalid parameters | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal server error | #/definitions/app.Response |
Example response
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"language": "English",
"language_code": "en",
"segments": [
{
"text": "Never gonna give you up",
"start": 12.34,
"duration": 2.11
}
],
"text": "Never gonna give you up"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/youtube.transcriptResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | youtube.TranscriptResponse | No | ||||
| data.is_generated | boolean | No | ||||
| data.language | string | No | English | |||
| data.language_code | string | No | en | |||
| data.segments | array | No | ||||
| data.segments[].duration | number | No | ||||
| data.segments[].start | number | No | ||||
| data.segments[].text | string | No | ||||
| data.text | string | No | Never gonna give you up | |||
| data.translation_language | string | No | es | |||
| data.video_id | string | No | dQw4w9WgXcQ | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Example request
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/transcript/user-1" -H "x-api-key: <api-key>"
TypeScript fetch
const url = new URL("https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/transcript/user-1");
const headers = new Headers();
headers.set("x-api-key", "<api-key>");
const response = await fetch(url, {
method: "GET",
headers,
});
const payload = await response.json();