Get video transcript — YouTube API

Returns the transcript for a public video, in WebVTT format.

GET/v1/youtube/videos/{videoId}/transcript1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
      "https://konbiniapi.com/ns/social#"
    ],
    "type": "Document",
    "id": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plN7JMbadRg&transcript=en",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plN7JMbadRg",
    "mediaType": "text/vtt",
    "language": "en",
    "size": 376111,
    "source": "ASR",
    "content": "WEBVTT\n\n00:00:00.133 --> 00:00:02.033\n I just bought this entire  \n grocery store-- \n\n00:00:00.133 --> 00:00:02.033\n I just bought this entire  \n grocery store-- "
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/youtube/videos/{videoId}/transcript. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

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Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/youtube/videos/plN7JMbadRg/transcript", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters2

videoIdrequiredIn · PathType · stringYouTube video ID (the v= value from a watch URL)
languageIn · QueryType · stringLanguage code of the caption track to return, as listed in the video-detail endpoint's captions[].languageCode. Defaults to the channel's default track, or the first available one if none is set.

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