# YouTube Transcript API

3 implementations from DataForSEO, ScrapeCreators and TikHub, from $0.008 per call.

## Implementations

- [YouTube video captions](/providers/tikhub/youtube-web-v2-get-video-captions.md): `tikhub/youtube-web-v2-get-video-captions`, $0.008 per call. Get existing YouTube captions or their language list. Takes video id, video url, language code and more, all optional. Served by TikHub.
- [YouTube video subtitles, optionally translated](/providers/dataforseo/youtube-video-subtitles.md): `dataforseo/youtube-video-subtitles`, usage based, the maximum is shown before a run. Timed transcript lines (text, start, end). Needs video id. Served by DataForSEO.
- [YouTube video transcript](/providers/scrapecreators/get-v1-youtube-video-transcript.md): `scrapecreators/get-v1-youtube-video-transcript`, usage based, the maximum is shown before a run. Retrieves publicly available captions, subtitles, or transcripts from a YouTube video or Short. Needs url. Served by ScrapeCreators.

## Supporting tools

- [YouTube video captions job result](/providers/tikhub/youtube-web-v2-get-video-captions-result.md): `tikhub/youtube-web-v2-get-video-captions-result`, no charge per call. Get the result of a YouTube caption job created by this Agentik workspace. Needs job id. Served by TikHub.

## Same data on other platforms

- [TikTok video transcript](/tools/tiktok/transcripts.md): 2 tools, from $0.001 per call.
- [Instagram reel transcript](/tools/instagram/transcripts.md): 1 tool.
- [Transcripts](/tools/social-media/transcripts.md): 6 tools, from $0.001 per call.

## Other capabilities

- [YouTube comments](/tools/youtube/comments.md): 7 tools, from $0.001 per call.
- [YouTube channels](/tools/youtube/channels.md): 11 tools, from $0.001 per call.
- [YouTube search](/tools/youtube/search.md): 6 tools, from $0.001 per call.
- [YouTube Shorts](/tools/youtube/shorts.md): 4 tools, from $0.001 per call.
- [YouTube videos](/tools/youtube/videos.md): 10 tools, from $0.001 per call.

## Providers

- [DataForSEO](/providers/dataforseo.md): 190 tools, from $0.00015 per page, some tools free.
- [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators.md): 193 tools, from $0.00188 per call.
- [TikHub](/providers/tikhub.md): 977 tools, from $0.001 per call, some tools free.

## Questions

### Which tool should my agent use?

Your agent compares the 3 implementations by price and inputs with inspect_tool and proposes one before it runs.

### How is it billed?

Per call, at the provider's price with no markup, from $0.008 per call. Your agent sees the price before it runs a tool.

[YouTube](/tools/youtube.md) · [Connection guide](/connect.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md)

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