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English YouTube transcripts

English

English is the densest caption language on YouTube: most professional uploads ship a manual en track, and ASR fills the rest. Default our `lang` parameter to `en` unless you know the upload language.

curl
curl "https://api.ytapi.dev/v1/transcripts/dQw4w9WgXcQ?lang=en" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer yta_YOUR_KEY"
Example 200
{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "lang": "en",
  "is_auto_generated": false,
  "is_translated": false,
  "segments": [
    {
      "start": 18,
      "duration": 4.2,
      "text": "We're no strangers to love"
    },
    {
      "start": 22.2,
      "duration": 4.8,
      "text": "You know the rules and so do I"
    }
  ]
}

Probe available tracks first with the free GET /v1/transcripts/{id}/languages endpoint — 0 credits. Fetching the transcript itself is 1 credit on HTTP 200; missing tracks return transcript_language_not_available and are not billed.

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