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Retrieve auto-generated or human captions API Playground

Returns the caption cues for a specific YouTube video.

GETapiKey3 credits/requestyoutube.captionsResponseDocYouTube

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GETapiKey3 credits/requestyoutube.captionsResponseDocYouTube

GET /youtube/captions/{id}

Retrieve auto-generated or human captions

Returns the caption cues for a specific YouTube video.

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YouTube video ID (11-character code)

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": [
    {
      "text": "Andrew Mayne: Welcome to the OpenAI podcast.",
      "start": 0.399,
      "duration": 1.921
    }
  ]
}

Endpoint details

Returns the caption cues for a specific YouTube video.

Method: GET
Path: /youtube/captions/{id}
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 3 credits/request
Platform: YouTube
Parameters: 3 documented fields

Request parameters

id:pathlang:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata[].durationdata[].startdata[].textmsg

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": [
    {
      "text": "Andrew Mayne: Welcome to the OpenAI podcast.",
      "start": 0.399,
      "duration": 1.921
    }
  ]
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/captions/<id>" \
  -H "x-api-key: <api-key>"

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