Python Integration

YouTube Transcript API for Python

Integrate YouTube transcript extraction into your Python applications in minutes. Our REST API returns clean JSON that works seamlessly with pandas, LangChain, and any Python data pipeline. Whether you are building an AI chatbot, a research tool, or a content analysis pipeline, our API gives you reliable access to YouTube captions and AI-generated transcripts.

Install Dependencies

pip install httpx

Complete Code Example

import httpx

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
VIDEO_URL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

response = httpx.get(
    "https://api.youtubetranscripts.co/v1/transcript",
    params={"url": VIDEO_URL},
    headers={"x-api-key": API_KEY},
)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()

print(f"Title: {data['title']}")
print(f"Channel: {data['channel']}")

for segment in data["transcript"]:
    print(f"[{segment['start']:.1f}s] {segment['text']}")

Key Features for Python Developers

Works with httpx, requests, aiohttp, or any HTTP library

Returns structured JSON compatible with pandas DataFrames

Perfect for LangChain document loaders and RAG pipelines

Batch endpoint processes up to 25 videos per request

AI fallback transcribes videos without captions via Whisper

Supports 30+ languages with automatic detection

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