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YouTube API — Without the Quota Math
The official API charges 100 quota units per search or comment pull from a 10,000-unit daily budget — these 5 endpoints price everything at 1 credit from a monthly pool, including full transcripts from any public video with captions.
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What You Can Pull From YouTube
Video detailsVideo details: title, views, likes, duration, tags, channel.
Video subtitlesFull timestamped subtitles in any available language.
Video commentsComments with authors, likes, reply threads.
Channel videosChannel video listings with metadata.
Video searchSearch YouTube by keyword.
What Comes Back
POST /api/youtube/video/subtitles
{
"video_id": "abc123",
"language": "en",
"segments": [
{ "start": 0.0, "text": "Welcome back to the channel." },
{ "start": 3.4, "text": "Today we are indexing a full video library." },
{ "start": 7.9, "text": "Every video becomes a searchable document." }
]
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Common Questions
From any public video that has captions — auto-generated or manually uploaded. Most English-language videos have auto-generated captions; videos without any captions return nothing to extract.