YouTube video transcript
Retrieves publicly available captions, subtitles, or transcripts from a YouTube video or Short. Needs url. Served by ScrapeCreators.
Inputs
- URL
- YouTube video or short URLRequired · url
- Language
- Language code, ie 'en', 'es', 'fr' or 'en-US'Optional · language
- Original audio
- Set to true to return captions only in the original spoken language identified by YouTubeOptional · original_audio
- Cache max age
- If we have a response in the cache that is this many days old or newer, return the cached response (0 credits, with… (1d, 3d, 7d, 14d or 30d)Optional · cache_max_age
Pricing
- Price
- Usage based, at the cost the provider reports for the call
- Billing
- Billed at the cost the provider reports for the call, never above $0.00188. Your agent sees the maximum before running.
- Price checked
- 5 October 2026
Call
Your agent reads the schema and the price with inspect_tool before it runs the tool.
- MCP call
- cURL command
- TypeScript
- Tool ID
Alternatives
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