YouTube Transcript API

Programmatic access to YouTube transcripts for your own applications.

The same engine that powers the tools on this site is available for developers. It takes a YouTube video ID and returns the full transcript as structured data: every spoken line with its start time and duration. Use it to feed transcripts into your app, pipeline or research project without scraping YouTube yourself.

Access is granted individually. Tell us what you are building and how many videos you expect to process, and we will reply by email with the details.