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"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."
Ziv Erlichson, Founder at Plynn
"Quick, caring and efficient support!"
Thomas Puech, Designer
"Easy to connect - work's smooth and properly!"
Robert Podsiadlo, Founder at PrimeStuff
Start extracting insights from Social Media Videos in minutes, and save days of development.
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// Extract a YouTube transcript with one API call
const url = "https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/transcript"
+ "?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
+ "&access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY";
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
// data.data => { transcript, transcriptSegments, wordCount, segments }
console.log(data.data.transcript);
console.log(data.data.transcriptSegments);
// [{ text: "...", start: 0.0, duration: 2.5, timestamp: "0:00" }, ...]Specialized capabilities designed specifically for content marketers workflows and use cases.
Step-by-step workflow to get started
Find high-performing videos in your niche
Extract summaries and key topics
Analyze engagement patterns
Identify content gaps and opportunities
Create data-backed content briefs
We solve real problems faced by teams every day
Analyze thousands of videos without watching them. Extract hooks, scripts, and messaging patterns from top performers. Repurpose video content into multiple formats at scale.
See how teams are using this API in production
Study viral videos to understand hooks, pacing, topic selection, and engagement patterns. Apply these insights to your content strategy.
A social media manager analyzes 1000+ viral TikToks in their niche to identify common patterns in hooks, music, and format, doubling their average engagement rate.
Compare your content performance against competitors and industry benchmarks to identify improvement opportunities.
A YouTube creator tracks their engagement rates against top performers in their category, identifying that longer intros hurt retention.
Identify high-performing influencers and analyze their content strategy before partnership outreach.
A brand partnership manager vets 50+ influencers monthly, analyzing their content consistency and engagement authenticity before deals.
Track which content types, topics, and formats drive the most engagement and conversions for your brand.
An e-commerce brand discovered educational content drives 5x more conversions than product showcases by tracking video performance.
A YouTube Transcript API lets you extract the spoken text from any YouTube video programmatically. Instead of manually copying captions or building fragile scrapers with Puppeteer, you send a video URL and get back structured JSON with the full transcript and timestamps.
SocialKit's YouTube Transcript API works with regular videos, YouTube Shorts, auto-generated captions, and manually uploaded subtitles. It supports all languages that YouTube provides captions for. One API call returns the complete transcript with word count, segment count, and individual timestamped segments.
The official YouTube Data API (v3) does not provide transcript or caption content directly. It can list available caption tracks, but downloading the actual text requires additional OAuth authorization and complex parsing of timed text formats.
SocialKit's YouTube Transcript API is purpose-built for transcript extraction. You send a URL, you get text back as JSON. No OAuth flow, no caption track IDs, no XML parsing. It also works with auto-generated captions, which the official API makes particularly difficult to access.
YouTube transcript scrapers built with Puppeteer or Selenium break every time YouTube updates their UI. They require headless browsers, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA solving. A single breaking change can take down your entire pipeline.
A REST API like SocialKit eliminates all of that. No browser automation, no proxy management, no maintenance burden. The API handles YouTube's anti-bot protections and delivers clean, structured data every time. For teams processing more than a handful of videos, the reliability difference is significant.
If you're currently scraping YouTube transcripts, you can also try the free YouTube transcript extractor tool to see the output format before integrating the API.
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