yt-transcript

Fetch the transcript of any YouTube video as JSON, plain text, or SRT. If you're piping transcripts into an LLM, indexing video content, or generating subtitles, this is the fastest way to get captions out of YouTube.

Endpoint

GET /{video_id} — transcript

Quick start

curl https://yt-transcript.net/dQw4w9WgXcQ

curl https://yt-transcript.net/dQw4w9WgXcQ?fmt=text

curl https://yt-transcript.net/dQw4w9WgXcQ?fmt=srt

curl https://yt-transcript.net/dQw4w9WgXcQ?lang=fr

Response formats ?fmt=

json default

[
  { "text": "We're no strangers to love", "start": 18.53, "duration": 3.2 },
  { "text": "You know the rules and so do I", "start": 21.73, "duration": 2.82 }
]

text

We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I

srt

1
00:00:18,530 --> 00:00:21,730
We're no strangers to love

2
00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:24,550
You know the rules and so do I