⚡️ YouTube Transcript API: GetTranscript code examples ⚡️

Code examples for the GetTranscript API. Extract YouTube transcripts, subtitles and captions for single videos, playlists and channels from your own code.

🛠 What you can do

• Export transcripts as TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, JSON or CSV
• Get timestamped captions
• Extract transcripts for single videos, playlists and channels

❗️ Limits and credits

• Rate limit: 60 requests per minute per API key / IP
• Credits: 1 credit per successfully processed video

🗝️ Get an API key

Create a free API key in your GetTranscript dashboard. Credit packs are listed on the pricing page.

The Python and Node.js examples load the key from a .env file (via python-dotenv / dotenv). Create a .env file in the example's folder and set your key there. The exact variable name is at the top of each example script.

🚀 Quick start

Python

cd python
pip install requests python-dotenv
python fetch_transcript.py

Node.js

cd nodejs
npm install axios dotenv
node fetch_transcript.js

cURL

cd curl
bash request.sh

📚 Documentation

Endpoints, parameters and error responses are described in the official API documentation.

🔗 Links

• Free YouTube transcript extractor: web interface for single videos, no sign-up
• Bulk transcript extractor: web interface for playlists and channels, up to 100 videos per job
• Pricing: pay-as-you-go credits, 1 video = 1 credit