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Try the YouTube Captions API

Test Crawlora's YouTube Captions API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /youtube/captions/{id}
Platform: YouTube
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 3 credits/request
Required params: id
Common optional params: lang

YouTube Captions API documentation YouTube platform page Crawlora API pricing Try YouTube Channel Playlists API Try Search within a YouTube channel API Try YouTube Channel Shorts API Try YouTube Channel Videos API Try YouTube Video Comments API

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/captions/dQw4w9WgXcQ?lang=en" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
id (path)	string	Yes	dQw4w9WgXcQ	YouTube video ID (11-character code)
lang	string	No	en	Caption language code (ISO 639-1), defaults to en

Example JSON response

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

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Method

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Endpoint

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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Path parameters

requiredstring

YouTube video ID (11-character code)

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Sample responseGET

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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: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

View endpoint docs Open platform page Browse all endpoints Pricing Retrieve the playlists tab for a YouTube channel Search within a YouTube channel Retrieve the shorts tab for a YouTube channel Retrieve the videos tab for a YouTube channel Retrieve video comments (top-level & replies)

Try the YouTube Captions API

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
id (path)	string	Yes	dQw4w9WgXcQ	YouTube video ID (11-character code)
lang	string	No	en	Caption language code (ISO 639-1), defaults to en

Example JSON response

{
  "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: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"