# YouTube video transcript

Retrieves publicly available captions, subtitles, or transcripts from a YouTube video or Short. Needs url. Served by ScrapeCreators.

Retrieves publicly available captions, subtitles, or transcripts from a YouTube video or Short. Returns both a timestamped transcript array with start/end times and a plain-text version in transcript_only_text. Supports specifying a language code. Videos of any length are supported when YouTube exposes public captions. This endpoint does not use the two-minute AI transcription fallback. If no matching caption track is available, the transcript fields return null.

- Tool ID: `scrapecreators/get-v1-youtube-video-transcript`
- Name in the catalog: Transcript
- Provider: [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators.md)
- Capability: [YouTube transcript](/tools/youtube/transcripts.md)
- Price: usage based, the maximum is shown before a run
- Authentication: an authorised Agentik workspace is required for execution, including zero-price tools.

## Pricing contract

Billed at the cost the provider reports for the call, never above $0.00188. Your agent sees the maximum before running.


```json
{
  "model": "reported",
  "costPath": "",
  "costTerms": [
    {
      "path": "credits_charged",
      "usd": 0.00188
    }
  ],
  "requireCost": true,
  "maxUsdDefault": 0.00188,
  "maxUsdCap": 0.00188,
  "multipliers": []
}
```

Pricing source: [https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/youtube/video/transcript](https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/youtube/video/transcript). $47 / 25,000 credits = $0.00188/credit; badge 1; actual credits_charged; conditional maximum 1..

Price verification date: 2026-10-05.

## Complete input schema


```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "YouTube video or short URL"
    },
    "language": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Language code, ie 'en', 'es', 'fr' or 'en-US'. Overrides the default track selection unless original_audio=true. If omitted, prefers captions matching the original spoken language when YouTube identifies the original audio. If that metadata is unavailable or ambiguous, prefers an auto-generated caption, otherwise the first caption track. If the requested or identified original language has no matching captions, the transcript will be null and no credits are charged."
    },
    "original_audio": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Set to true to return captions only in the original spoken language identified by YouTube. Takes precedence over language. If the original audio cannot be reliably identified or has no matching captions, transcript, transcript_only_text, and language are null and no credits are charged. No extra lookup or credit cost; a returned transcript costs the usual 1 credit. Omit or set to false for the existing default selection."
    },
    "cache_max_age": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "1d",
        "3d",
        "7d",
        "14d",
        "30d"
      ],
      "description": "If we have a response in the cache that is this many days old or newer, return the cached response (0 credits, with \"cached\": true and a \"cached_at\" timestamp). Otherwise, scrape a live result (1 credit). [See the Caching page for details.](https://docs.scrapecreators.com/caching)"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Published example

No example input is published for this tool. Ask for the inputs required by its schema.

## Execute and retrieve

Inspect again before execution, explain the price and obtain the required authority. Use MCP run_tool or POST /v1/run with this tool ID, valid input and an idempotency key. Save the returned run ID and follow the actual state. If Agentik answers that the tool is temporarily unavailable, do not retry it blindly; use discovery to propose an alternative.

A partial or uncertain result can still have consumed provider resources. Consult [billing](/docs/billing.md), [idempotency](/docs/idempotency.md) and [asynchronous results](/docs/async.md).

[Provider documentation](https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/youtube/video/transcript)

[REST inspection](https://api.agentik.cc/v1/tools/scrapecreators/get-v1-youtube-video-transcript) · [OpenAPI](/openapi.json) · [Connection guide](/connect.md)

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