YouTube/Video Transcript
YouTube

YouTube Video Transcript API

Pull captions or auto-generated transcripts from any public YouTube video, time-stamped, in any language.

From $0.0300 per call·Median under 2s·One charge per call

Premium pricing — every call uses AI or heavy data extraction.

One call

Send a URL.
Get back JSON.

This endpoint takes one input: url. The response carries the parsed YouTube entity. Every public field, in a flat, predictable shape.

Request
cURL
curl https://hproxy.com/v1/scrape/youtube/transcript \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HPROXY_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVIDXPP7Uk"}'
POST // 1 call · $0.0300 · <2s
What you get

Structured data,
not a scraping project.

Captions / subtitles / transcript for a YouTube video.

Live JSON, returned in seconds
No login flows, no captcha solving
Pay-as-you-go, priced in dollars
Same API key across every scraper
Idempotent retries via X-Request-Id
REST. Works from any language
Built for

The work that
needs this data.

01

Lead generation

Pull YouTube signals at scale and enrich your CRM with public profile data. Clean, structured, ready to import.

02

Market research

Track competitors, audience movements, and trends across YouTube without standing up any scraping infrastructure.

03

AI training data

Feed predictable YouTube JSON straight into your model fine-tuning pipeline. Same schema every call.

More YouTube

The rest of the
YouTube hub.

Try it

Two dollars,
first run.

Sign in with Google, drop $2 in the wallet, fire your first Video Transcript call against youtube.com. If it doesn’t do what you need, the balance is refundable for 24 hours.