Do I need my own proxies or the YouTube API key?

You call one endpoint with your key and get the transcript back.

What if a video has no captions?

You get a clear reason code, and failed or caption-less fetches are free.

What formats does it return?

Clean text plus timestamped segments as structured JSON.

TranscriptFetch

Video & web data for AI: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook transcripts + any web page as Markdown. (shorter variant if it's capped: Social video transcripts & web scraping for AI. One API call.)

Development

FREEMIUM

One API, every source | Get transcripts from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter), and Facebook videos, or turn any web page into clean Markdown - same key, same clean JSON. AI transcription built in | Videos without captions are transcribed automatically with AI, so you alway...