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Cost: 1 credit per successful request. Errors and cache hits (cache_max_age) are free.
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Prompt

Authorizations

x-api-key
string
header
required

Your API key. Send it in the x-api-key header (or Authorization: Bearer <key>). Create and manage keys from your dashboard.

Query Parameters

url
string
required

A YouTube video or Short URL — youtube.com/watch?v=<id>, youtu.be/<id>, youtube.com/shorts/<id>.

language
string

The captions' language: a code like en (matches any region, e.g. en-US) or a full one like pt-BR. Defaults to the captions YouTube shows first.

cache_max_age
enum<string>

Optional. Return a cached result if one this age or newer exists — served for 0 credits with meta.cached=true and meta.cachedAt. Otherwise a fresh scrape runs (1 credit) and refreshes the cache. Omit to always scrape fresh.

Available options:
1d,
3d,
7d,
14d,
30d

Response

The transcript.

data
object
required
meta
object
required

requestId + credit/caching metadata (creditsCharged, creditsRemaining, cached, cachedAt).