Transcripts · fr

French YouTube transcripts

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French captions show up as `fr` or `fr-FR`. Manual tracks are common on news and education channels; everything else is ASR. `translate=fr` will machine-translate a source track when no native French exists.

curl "https://api.ytapi.dev/v1/transcripts/dQw4w9WgXcQ?lang=fr" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer yta_YOUR_KEY"

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "lang": "fr",
  "is_auto_generated": true,
  "is_translated": true,
  "segments": [
    {
      "start": 18,
      "duration": 4.2,
      "text": "Nous ne sommes pas étrangers à l'amour"
    },
    {
      "start": 22.2,
      "duration": 4.8,
      "text": "Tu connais les règles et moi aussi"
    }
  ]
}

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.