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Extract timestamped YouTube transcripts via REST API. Clean JSON with word count and segments.
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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 developers workflows and use cases.
Step-by-step workflow to get started
Configure API credentials in your environment
Build extraction functions for your data pipeline
Store responses in your database or data warehouse
Set up monitoring and error alerting
Optimize for cost and performance at scale
We solve real problems faced by teams every day
Extract YouTube transcripts with timestamps in one API call. No need for browser automation or caption parsing. Get clean, structured JSON ready to use in your application.
See how teams are using this API in production
Build applications that analyze audience sentiment, detect trends in feedback, and identify emerging topics from comments.
A brand monitoring tool processes 50,000+ comments daily, using NLP to detect sentiment shifts and alert teams to potential PR issues.
Create tools that help teams manage comments, identify questions, flag toxic content, and engage with audiences at scale.
A creator management platform uses the API to aggregate comments across channels, helping teams respond to fans efficiently.
Extract audience feedback and opinions to inform product development, marketing strategies, and competitive positioning.
A product team analyzes competitor video comments to identify feature requests and pain points, informing their roadmap prioritization.
Build systems that automatically flag spam, detect inappropriate content, and prioritize comments needing human review.
A video platform integrated comment extraction with moderation AI, reducing manual review time by 80% while improving response quality.
Integrate with your existing tools and platforms
Build interactive dashboards showing social media insights.
Trigger workflows based on social media data updates.
Feed social media data into your data warehouse for BI.
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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