Core API reference, quickstarts, and how-to guides for extracting transcripts programmatically in Python, Node.js, and other languages.
Pull the text from every video in a YouTube playlist with one endpoint and a loop. Online courses, conference series, and podcast back catalogs become fully searchable — paginated, cheap (about 30 cents for a 200-video course on the annual plan), and fully automated.
By Nikhil Kumar
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Get a YouTube transcript with timestamps in Node.js in under 5 minutes. Copy-paste working code, error handling, plus a bonus CSV export step.
By Nikhil Kumar
Pull transcripts from every video in a YouTube playlist with one script. Handles pagination, rate limits, and 1,000+ video playlists. Code in Python and Node.
By Nikhil Kumar
List or search any YouTube channel with a single API call. TranscriptAPI's channel endpoints resolve any handle, ID, or @username format, paginate huge channels, and search within a channel — far simpler than the YouTube Data API v3, which needs three calls just to list a channel's videos.
By TranscriptAPI Team
The PyPI youtube-transcript-api package breaks on cloud servers when YouTube changes its pages. This quick start uses TranscriptAPI's REST endpoint instead — get your first Python transcript in about five minutes with copy-paste code that keeps working in production.
By Nikhil Kumar
Three working ways to pull YouTube transcripts in production: a one-line cURL command to test, a Python batch script with per-video error handling, and a JavaScript version for Node and the browser — each a single REST call that returns clean text in milliseconds.
By Nikhil Kumar
A complete guide to accessing YouTube transcripts: why the official Data API can't return captions for public videos, how YouTube actually stores caption data, the four extraction approaches in 2026, and working code in cURL, Python, and JavaScript.
By Nikhil Kumar
