youtube-transcript-api
YouTube Transcript API: get YouTube video transcripts via REST API, no Google API key. Plus YouTube search, channel and playlist endpoints, OpenAPI spec and examples.
Details
- External ID
- 1393369976
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- youtube-transcript-api
- Website domain
- getyoutubetranscript.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4606712785037151
- Tags
- ai-tools, api, captions, llm, openapi, rest-api, subtitles, transcript, transcript-api, video-transcription, youtube, youtube-api, youtube-captions, youtube-search, youtube-transcript, youtube-transcript-api
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video transcription and extraction tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- rest api for youtube transcripts and metadata
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The API gateway, billing, and OpenAPI documentation are trivial to vibe-code, but maintaining reliable YouTube scraping without getting blocked requires dedicated proxy rotators and anti-bot mitigation.
What it would actually take: The tech stack involves FastAPI/Node.js for the REST API and Stripe for credit billing, connected to an internal transcription/scraping worker pool. The critical hard component is bypassing YouTube's bot detection, IP rate limiting, and CAPTCHAs via residential rotating proxies and session token emulation. It requires web-scraping infrastructure operations and ongoing maintenance against YouTube's frontend changes.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #36 of 100 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 242 days after the earliest competitor.
- Capslane · ph · 2026-09-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- YouTube Transcript & Summary Generator · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- YoutubeTranscriptPro · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- TubeTranscriber · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- YouTube Transcript Exporter · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- AI Video Summarizer · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- YouTube Transcript Tool · ph · 2026-03-26 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TranscriptCut · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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