# 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 2026-09-14).

Fetches the live transcript/captions for a specific YouTube video identified by its video ID

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/transcript/qel8Fyt78fk
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-influship-com-0dfb7361
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uD3hGmSxy0X0DqQvuog4S

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-0dfb7361
```

Example prompt: Can you get me the full transcript of the YouTube video with ID qel8Fyt78fk? I want to read what was said in it.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve the spoken transcript or captions of a YouTube video by its video ID, especially in agentic workflows that need to summarize, analyze, or quote video content. Prefer this over manual caption downloads when you need live, on-demand retrieval at low cost ($0.01 per call).

## Known failure modes

- Video ID does not exist or is invalid — returns error or empty response
- Video has no captions or transcripts available (disabled or not generated) — returns empty or error
- YouTube rate limiting or blocking of scraper — returns failure or timeout
- Private or age-restricted video not accessible — returns access denied error
- Network timeout during live scrape — returns timeout error

## How this service works

Live YouTube scraping

## Output

Returns the raw transcript or captions text scraped live from the specified YouTube video, including the spoken words from the video's subtitles or auto-generated captions.

## 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"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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