# Influship YouTube Transcript Scraper

> Influship YouTube Transcript Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from api.influship.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches the live transcript of a YouTube video by video ID via real-time scraping

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/transcript/zc8Nh4TMB1s
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-influship-com-0cad257a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uV6JlWc7DPq56qKdiAi7a

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-influship-com-0cad257a
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the full transcript of this YouTube video — zc8Nh4TMB1s — so I can read what was said?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to extract the spoken transcript or captions from a specific YouTube video by its video ID, especially when you want live/real-time scraping rather than relying on a pre-indexed database of transcripts. Ideal for summarization, analysis, or content extraction workflows that start with a known YouTube video ID.

## Known failure modes

- Video ID does not exist or is invalid — returns error or empty response
- Video has no captions or transcript available — scraping returns nothing
- YouTube anti-scraping measures block the request — returns failure or timeout
- Private or age-restricted video may not be accessible — returns access error
- Rate limiting or payment failure — returns 402 or 429 status

## How this service works

Live YouTube scraping

## Output

Returns the scraped transcript text of the specified YouTube video, including the spoken words or captions as extracted in real-time from YouTube's platform.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "pathParams": {},
  "queryParams": {}
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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