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Try the Retrieve transcript for a YouTube video API

Test Crawlora's Retrieve transcript for a YouTube video 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/transcript/{id}
Platform
YouTube
Auth
apiKey
Credits
3 credits/request
Required params
id
Common optional params
lang, translate_to, format, timestamps
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Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/transcript/<id>?format=json" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

ParameterTypeRequiredPrefilled valueDescription
id (path)stringYesYouTube video ID (11-character code)
langstringNoPreferred transcript language
translate_tostringNoTranslate transcript to this language code
formatstringNojsonResponse format
timestampsbooleanNoInclude timestamps in the JSON response

Example JSON 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"
  }
}

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GET /youtube/transcript/{id}

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.

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{
  "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"
  }
}

Endpoint details

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.

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

Request parameters

id:pathlang:querytranslate_to:queryformat:querytimestamps:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata.is_generateddata.languagedata.language_codedata.segmentsdata.segments[].durationdata.segments[].startdata.segments[].textdata.textdata.translation_languagedata.video_id

Sample response summary

{
  "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"
  }
}

cURL example

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