Get YouTube Transcript

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Description

This endpoint extracts the transcript from a specified YouTube video URL, formats the transcript, and optionally includes timestamps.

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Endpoint

POST /api/v1/get-youtube-transcript

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Headers

• Content-Type: application/json
• Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY> (required)

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Request Body

{
  "videoUrl": "string", // Required. The URL of the YouTube video.
  "includeTimestamps": "boolean", // Optional. Whether to include timestamps in the transcript. Default: true.
  "timestampsToCombine": "number", // Optional. The number of timestamps to combine in the transcript. Default: 5.
  "preferredLanguage": "string" // Optional. Preferred language for the transcript. Default: "en".
}

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Accepted Values for preferredLanguage

The preferredLanguage parameter accepts the following language codes:

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Responses

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Success (200)

Returns the transcript of the specified YouTube video and the detected language.

{
  "transcript": "string",
  "language": "string"
}

• Content-Type: application/json
• X-RateLimit-Limit: The rate limit for the user.
• X-RateLimit-Remaining: The remaining number of requests for the user.

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Bad Request (400)

Returned if the request is invalid or missing required parameters.

{
  "error": "Error message describing the issue"
}

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Not Found (404)

Returned if no subtitles are found for the video.

{
  "error": "No subtitles found for the video: <videoID>"
}

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Internal Server Error (500)

Returned if there’s an error during the transcript extraction process.

{
  "error": "Error message describing the issue"
}

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Example Request

curl -X POST https://app.dumplingai.com/api/v1/get-youtube-transcript \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example",
  "includeTimestamps": true,
  "timestampsToCombine": 5,
  "preferredLanguage": "en"
}'

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Example Response

{
  "transcript": "00:00 - Welcome to this video.\n00:05 - Today we'll be discussing...",
  "language": "en"
}

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Notes

• The videoUrl parameter must be a valid YouTube video URL.
• If includeTimestamps is set to false, the transcript will not include timestamp information.
• The timestampsToCombine parameter determines how many individual transcript segments are combined into a single line with a timestamp.
• The preferredLanguage parameter allows you to specify the desired language for the transcript. If not available, it will default to the first available language.
• This endpoint uses 2 credit per request.
• The transcript extraction attempts to retrieve the captions of a YouTube video. Some videos have captions disabled, this action will fail on these videos.

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Rate Limiting

Rate limit headers (X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining) are included in the response to indicate the user’s current rate limit status.