YouTube API
Build transcript, comments, metadata, and channel workflows from one source.
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Paste any YouTube URL or video ID and Crawlora's free transcript generator returns the spoken text with timestamps — ready to read, search, download, summarize, or feed to an LLM. No browser extension, no copy-pasting from the player. And because extraction runs on Crawlora's infrastructure rather than your own IP, the same endpoint scales to bulk jobs — whole channels or thousands of videos — without the rate-limits and IP bans that DIY transcript scripts hit.
Quick answer
Crawlora's free YouTube transcript extractor returns timestamped transcript text from a YouTube URL or video ID. Use it to read, search, download, summarize, or feed video text into an LLM, then call the transcript API for batch extraction across videos and channels.
Use this when a video is useful but you need searchable text, timestamps, or reusable research notes.
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Example output before you run the tool
| Time | Transcript text |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | Intro and topic setup |
| 00:18 | Main explanation starts |
| 01:04 | Example and takeaway |
Drop in a full watch URL, a share link, or just the 11-character video ID. Crawlora resolves it to the right video automatically.
Get the full timestamped transcript instantly, with no login or API key.
Scan the timestamped lines, copy the JSON, or download CSV for notes, summaries, and research.
Call /youtube/transcript/{id} from your own code to pull full transcripts and available languages across many videos.
Feed clean transcript text to an LLM to produce summaries, chapter markers, and key-point lists without watching the full video.
Turn long talks, lectures, and interviews into searchable, citable text you can quote and reference.
Convert a video into blog drafts, social threads, and newsletters by starting from the exact words spoken.
Index support and training videos as text so answers are searchable alongside your docs.
The on-page extractor is the no-key way to verify transcript quality. Use the API when your workflow needs many videos, language selection, retries, and backend integration without running transcript fetches from your own IP.
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Browse worked examples — full transcripts, top comments, and video metadata extracted into clean JSON.
PBD Podcast #807 is a business-and-news roundup anchored by a heated reaction to Ferrari’s latest all-electric car and concerns about depreciation and brand direction. The conversation then moves through political, economic, and cultural headlines, including New York real estate rhetoric, oil prices, Alberta separatism, Middle East diplomacy, youth employment, AI, and business-building lessons.
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In this excerpt from Joe Rogan Experience #2505, Joe Rogan and Tom Segura trade stories about Tom’s new season, the physical grind of weighted training, and the realities of hunting. The conversation focuses heavily on wild hogs in Texas, including how abundant they are, why they’re hunted, and how some hunters prepare, cook, and use them. The exchange also touches on chefs, wild game cooking, and the practical skills involved in hunting from start to finish.
In this PBD Podcast episode, the hosts cover a wide range of current events, led by speculation about a possible U.S.-Iran agreement and what it could mean for nuclear materials, sanctions, and regional shipping routes. The conversation also includes White House security headlines, reported threats tied to Ivanka Trump, and a mention of Hasan Piker facing a subpoena-related issue. Along the way, the panel reacts to Memorial Day, shares a prayer, and briefly touches on business and education topics, including AI’s impact on consulting and discounted MBA programs.
In this Dwarkesh Patel conversation with Reiner Pope, CEO of MatX, the discussion starts at the smallest building blocks of chip design and builds toward how AI chip circuits are organized. The episode focuses on logic gates, multiply-accumulate operations, full adders, and why low-precision arithmetic is so effective for neural networks.
In this All-In episode, the hosts and guest Gavin Baker discuss Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic, the promise of recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of faster AI gains through new model architectures. The conversation also touches on how AI should be framed: as a source of user utility and productivity, not just a source of fear. Comments show strong engagement, with praise for the episode’s depth alongside debate about AI’s impact on labor and transparency in product rollouts.
The exact authenticated request this tool makes — copy it, add your key, and you're live.
Create a free key, drop it in the header, and paste this into your terminal. 2,000 credits a month, no card.
curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/transcript/dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"Production path
The on-page extractor is the no-key way to verify transcript quality. Use the API when your workflow needs many videos, language selection, retries, and backend integration without running transcript fetches from your own IP.
Bulk video transcript extraction for summaries, knowledge bases, and RAG pipelines.