Catalog/YouTube/Video transcript full
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YouTube Video transcript full API

/v1/run/youtube.video_transcript_full

Fetch a YouTube transcript with timed segments and its provenance: whether the words are creator-written captions or machine speech recognition.

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{
  "data": {
    "channel": "example",
    "durationSeconds": 12.5,
    "isAiGenerated": true,
    "isAutoGenerated": true,
    "language": "en",
    "segments": [
      {
        "endSeconds": 180,
        "startSeconds": 180,
        "text": "A short example description of this item."
      }
    ],
    "title": "Example title",
    "transcript": "example"
  },
  "found": true
}
Response interface
interface YoutubeVideoTranscriptFullResponse {
  data: {
    channel?: string;
    durationSeconds?: number;
    isAiGenerated?: boolean;
    isAutoGenerated: boolean;
    language: string;
    segments?: {
      endSeconds: number;
      startSeconds: number;
      text: string;
    }[];
    title?: string;
    transcript: string;
  } | null;
  found: boolean;
}

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Request, response, and price

Last verified 2026-08-23 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
POST /v1/run/youtube.video_transcript_full
curl -X POST https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/youtube.video_transcript_full \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"}'
FieldTypeExample value
Request body
urlstring"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"YouTube video URL (e.g. "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ").
captionKindenumWhich caption track to accept: "manual" only creator-written captions, "automatic" only YouTube's speech recognition, "any" whichever exists.
languagestringPreferred caption language code (e.g. "en", "es"). Defaults to English.
Response
dataobject
data.channelstringChannel name that published the video.
data.durationSecondsnumberVideo duration in seconds.
data.isAiGeneratedbooleanTrue when the words were recognized from the audio by the serving lane rather than read from any YouTube caption track.
data.isAutoGeneratedbooleanTrue when YouTube generated the caption track by speech recognition rather than the creator supplying it. Automatic captions carry recognition errors, especially on names and jargon. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.languagestringCaption language code (e.g. "en"). Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.segmentsobject[]Timed transcript segments in playback order. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.segments[].endSecondsnumberSegment end offset in seconds.
data.segments[].startSecondsnumberSegment start offset in seconds.
data.segments[].textstringText of this transcript segment.
data.titlestringVideo title.
data.transcriptstringFull transcript text, segments joined in playback order. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
foundboolean
Price
Price per requestUSD$0.00308
Price /1k reqUSD$3.08

FAQ

About the YouTube Video transcript full API

The AnyAPI YouTube Video transcript full API returns YouTube video transcript full data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/youtube.video_transcript_full. Fetch a YouTube transcript with timed segments and its provenance: whether the words are creator-written captions or machine speech recognition. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs from $3.08 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of YouTube video transcript full calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 7.6 seconds across 9 measured calls.

It costs from $3.08 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet, each call draws it down, and a failed request costs $0.

Fetch a YouTube transcript with timed segments and its provenance: whether the words are creator-written captions or machine speech recognition. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of YouTube video transcript full calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 7.6 seconds across 9 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.

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