YouTube Transcript Pro

🎯 Getting Started with YouTube Transcript Pro

Welcome to the YouTube Transcript Pro API! This guide will show you how to quickly extract high-quality, AI-ready text from any YouTube video in seconds.

AI-Ready Text (`transcript`)

A beautifully concatenated, single string of text — perfect for feeding directly into ChatGPT, Claude, or your custom RAG pipelines without breaking tokenizers.

JSON Array (`structured_transcript`)

A clean JSON array containing individual text blocks and timestamps, ideal if you need to build custom video players or subtitle viewers.

🚀 1. Authentication

All requests to this API require your unique RapidAPI Key. You do not need to manage rotating session tokens yourself.

Just ensure these headers are included in every HTTP request:

X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY
X-RapidAPI-Host: youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com

🛠️ 2. The `/transcript` Endpoint

This single endpoint handles everything. You can pass either a clean Video ID or just dump a messy YouTube URL into the request.

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`videoId`	`string`	Query	Optional*. The 11-character YouTube ID (e.g., `dQw4w9WgXcQ`).
`url`	`string`	Query	Optional*. Any valid YouTube URL (e.g., `https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?t=43`).
`lang`	`string`	Query	Optional. The language code. Defaults to `en`. Use `vi` for Vietnamese or other ISO codes.

(Note: You must provide EITHER videoId OR url).

💻 3. Code Examples

Leverage the API in any environment. Below are standard snippets to get you started quickly:

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com/transcript?videoId=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lang=en' \
  --header 'X-RapidAPI-Host: youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY'

import requests

url = "https://youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com/transcript"
querystring = {"videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ", "lang": "en"}

headers = {
    "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)
data = response.json()

print(data.get("transcript"))

const axios = require('axios');

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com/transcript',
  params: { videoId: 'dQw4w9WgXcQ', lang: 'en' },
  headers: {
    'X-RapidAPI-Key': 'YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY',
    'X-RapidAPI-Host': 'youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com'
  }
};

try {
  const response = await axios.request(options);
  console.log(response.data.transcript);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com/transcript?videoId=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lang=en",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-RapidAPI-Host: youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com",
    "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

⚡ 4. No-Code Integrations

You can easily plug this API into your favorite automation platforms seamlessly.

n8n Integration
Make.com (Integromat)

Add an HTTP Request node to your workflow.
Set Method to GET.
Set URL to https://youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com/transcript.
Under Authentication, select None (we’ll use headers).
Add to Send Headers:
- Name: X-RapidAPI-Key | Value: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY
- Name: X-RapidAPI-Host | Value: youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com
Add to Send Query Parameters:
- Name: videoId | Value: dQw4w9WgXcQ (or map it dynamically from a previous node)
Execute the node. The response will instantly output clean JSON!

Add the standard HTTP - Make a request module.
Set URL to https://youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com/transcript.
Check the box for Show advanced settings.
In the Headers array, add two items:
- Key: X-RapidAPI-Key | Value: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY
- Key: X-RapidAPI-Host | Value: youtube-video-transcript-subtitles-pro.p.rapidapi.com
In Query String, add the keys videoId and lang with your desired values.
Set Parse response to Yes.
Run the module to automatically map the transcript variable to downstream apps!

⚠️ 5. Error Handling

Status Code	Description	Solution
`200`	Success	Data retrieved successfully.
`400`	Bad Request	Invalid `url` or `videoId`.
`404`	Not Found	The video does not exist, is private, or has subtitles disabled.
`429`	Too Many Requests	Rate limit exceeded.
`500`	Server Error	YouTube change detected. Try again later.