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TranscriptAPI

YouTube Transcript API That Just Works

A developer-focused API providing programmatic access to YouTube transcripts, video search, channel browsing, and playlist extraction. It handles YouTube's aggressive blocking so developers don't have to.

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15M+

Transcripts / Month

49ms

Median Response

100+

Languages

99.9%

Uptime

What It Does

The infrastructure layer for YouTube data

TranscriptAPI is the reliable backbone behind thousands of AI applications, research tools, and content pipelines. It provides a clean, RESTful API that returns full transcripts from any public YouTube video — in any of 100+ languages — without developers having to worry about YouTube's constantly evolving anti-scraping measures.

Beyond transcripts, the API opens up YouTube's full content graph. Search for videos programmatically without quota limits, browse channel libraries, and extract playlist contents — all through a single, consistent API interface with predictable pricing and no surprise rate limits.

With MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration, TranscriptAPI works natively as a tool for Claude, ChatGPT, and custom AI agents. This makes it trivial to build AI workflows that can search, read, and reason about YouTube content at scale.

Key Features

Everything you need from YouTube's data

Transcript Extraction

Full transcripts from any YouTube video, any language. Handles all the complexity of YouTube's blocking behind one simple API call.

YouTube Search API

Search YouTube programmatically without quota limits. Get structured results with metadata, thumbnails, and relevance ranking.

Channel & Playlist Browsing

Browse channel videos and playlists via API. Enumerate entire channel libraries and extract full playlist contents programmatically.

Multi-Language Support

100+ languages with auto-detection. Request transcripts in any available language or let the API pick the best match automatically.

MCP Integration

Works as a native tool for Claude, ChatGPT, and AI agents via Model Context Protocol. Build AI workflows that reason about YouTube content.

Enterprise Scale

15M+ transcripts per month, 49ms median response time, and 99.9% uptime. Built to be the infrastructure you never have to worry about.