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Chinese (Simplified) YouTube transcripts

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YouTube tags Simplified Chinese as `zh-Hans`, `zh-CN`, or sometimes `zh`. Pass `lang=zh-Hans`; we prefix-match `zh` if that is all the video has. Traditional is a separate page.

curl
curl "https://api.ytapi.dev/v1/transcripts/dQw4w9WgXcQ?lang=zh-Hans" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer yta_YOUR_KEY"
Example 200
{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "lang": "zh-Hans",
  "is_auto_generated": true,
  "is_translated": true,
  "segments": [
    {
      "start": 18,
      "duration": 4.2,
      "text": "我们对爱并不陌生"
    },
    {
      "start": 22.2,
      "duration": 4.8,
      "text": "你知道规则，我也知道"
    }
  ]
}

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