Transcript from any video URL

Beta GET /v1/transcript

GET /v1/transcript

Detects the platform from the URL and runs its transcript endpoint: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitch clips, Kick clips and Rumble. Same price, same cache.

Cost: 1 credit for captions; AI transcription 1 up to 2 minutes, then 1 per started minute
Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	URL	yes	Video URL on any supported platform. Accepted hosts: `youtube.com`, `youtu.be`, `tiktok.com`, `instagram.com`, `instagr.am`, `x.com`, `twitter.com`, `rumble.com`, `twitch.tv`, `kick.com`, `facebook.com`, `fb.com`, `fb.watch`, `linkedin.com`, `reddit.com`, `redd.it`.
`language`	string	no	Preferred caption language (BCP 47). Also accepted as `lang`.

Every request also accepts:

trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

curl

curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/transcript" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Python

import os
import requests

params = {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/transcript",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

TypeScript

const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/transcript");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}

n8n

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Transcript from any video URL",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/transcript",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "url",
              "value": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Example response#

This is a sample with illustrative values. Status 200.

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_54e6289e14c7b0e7ad9acc2d",
  "data": {
    "object": "transcript",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "language": "en",
    "source": "captions",
    "duration_seconds": 213.0,
    "text": "Example transcript text. This is illustrative, not the video's real captions.",
    "segments": [
      {
        "start": 0.0,
        "end": 4.0,
        "text": "Example transcript text."
      },
      {
        "start": 4.0,
        "end": 9.0,
        "text": "This is illustrative, not the video's real captions."
      }
    ],
    "available_languages": [
      "en"
    ],
    "extra": null
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}

Response#

A Transcript object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Code	HTTP	Retry	Meaning
`invalid_params`	400	no	A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
`unsupported_url`	400	no	The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
`transcript_unavailable`	404	no	No captions exist and AI transcription is not possible for this media.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

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