Full transcript of any YouTube video by video id or URL: captions/subtitles as clean plain
Full transcript of any YouTube video by video id or URL: captions/subtitles as clean plain text plus timestamped segments, the video's chapter markers, and every caption track it offers so an agent can pick a language and re-fetch. YouTube transcript, video to text, captions extraction, subtitle download, closed captions, speech to text, multilingual, asr and authored tracks. No API key.
20000 (raw units)
price
18
calls / 30d
13
unique payers
2026-09-17
updated
Provider
youtube.use.x402atlas.com · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
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"network": "eip155:8453",
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"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "20000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
},
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"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:137",
"payTo": "0x8C128f1Ee62Bb5e47867CfbAe2ad89be325Df1b2",
"asset": "0x3c499c542cEF5E3811e1192ce70d8cC03d5c3359",
"amount": "20000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
},
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"asset": "0xaf88d065e77c8cC2239327C5EDb3A432268e5831",
"amount": "20000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"category": "media-processing",
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"v": "iG9CE55wbtY"
},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"available_transcripts": [
{
"language_code": "en",
"selected": true
},
{
"language_code": "en",
"type": "asr"
},
{
"language_code": "fr"
}
],
"chapters": [
{
"end_ms": 42000,
"start_ms": 0,
"start_time_text": "0:00",
"title": "Introduction"
},
{
"end_ms": 115000,
"start_ms": 42000,
"start_time_text": "0:42",
"title": "Three themes"
}
],
"language_code": "en",
"queried_at": "2026-07-24T12:00:00Z",
"segments": [
{
"end_ms": 29678,
"start_ms": 27103,
"start_time_text": "0:27",
"text": "Good morning. How are you?"
},
{
"end_ms": 31105,
"start_ms": 29702,
"start_time_text": "0:29",
"text": "(Audience) Good."
}
],
"text": "Good morning. How are you? (Audience) Good. It's been great, hasn't it?",
"video_id": "iG9CE55wbtY"
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"v": {
"description": "YouTube video id (11 characters) or a full YouTube video URL",
"maxLength": 500,
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"v"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"available_transcripts": {
"description": "Every track this video offers; feed language_code/type/title back to fetch one. A language may appear twice — the authored track and the asr one.",
"items": {
"properties": {
"language_code": {
"type": "string"
},
"selected": {
"description": "True on the track this response served",
"type": "boolean"
},
"title": {
"description": "Track title, on videos with named tracks",
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"description": "asr on auto-generated tracks; absent on authored ones",
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"chapters": {
"description": "Chapter markers; empty for videos without chapters",
"items": {
"properties": {
"end_ms": {
"type": "integer"
},
"start_ms": {
"type": "integer"
},
"start_time_text": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"language_code": {
"description": "Language of the track actually served; omitted when the upstream identifies none — never an echo of the request",
"type": "string"
},
"note": {
"description": "Present only on the sample response (a call with no v): a hint that this is a canned example. The paid request ran; no upstream call was made.",
"type": "string"
},
"queried_at": {
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"segments": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"end_ms": {
"description": "Line end offset in milliseconds; absent on tracks that carry only starts",
"type": "integer"
},
"start_ms": {
"description": "Line start offset in milliseconds",
"type": "integer"
},
"start_time_text": {
"description": "Line start as displayed, e.g. 0:43",
"type": "string"
},
"text": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"start_ms",
"text"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"text": {
"description": "Whole transcript as one plain-text block",
"type": "string"
},
"video_id": {
"description": "Normalized 11-character video id",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"video_id",
"queried_at",
"text",
"segments",
"chapters",
"available_transcripts"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
},
"tags": [
"youtube",
"transcript",
"captions",
"subtitles",
"video-to-text",
"video-transcript",
"closed-captions",
"chapters",
"speech-to-text",
"rag"
]
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://youtube.use.x402atlas.com/transcript" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://youtube.use.x402atlas.com/transcript");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://youtube.use.x402atlas.com/transcript")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
Everything on this page is also available as clean JSON at /resources/685.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.