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Influship YouTube Transcript Scraper
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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 YouTube video by its video ID via real-time scraping
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Live YouTube scraping
Output
The agent receives the full spoken transcript/captions text of the specified YouTube video, scraped live from YouTube at the time of the request.
Example use cases
Summarize YouTube video content
“I just watched this YouTube video (ID: dQw4w9WgXcQ) but I want a quick written summary of everything that was said — can you grab the transcript and summarize the key points for me?”
Extract quotes from tutorial video
“There's a YouTube tutorial I need to reference in my article. The video ID is xvFZjo5PgG0 — can you pull the full transcript so I can find and quote the most important parts?”
Analyze competitor YouTube content
“I want to understand what talking points our competitor is using in their YouTube videos. Can you fetch the transcript for the video with ID 9bZkp7q19f0 so I can analyze the messaging?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/transcript/NdU6UdUKaYcWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need the spoken transcript or captions of a specific YouTube video identified by its video ID, especially for summarization, analysis, or text extraction tasks. Prefer this over manual caption downloads when you need programmatic, on-demand access within an agent workflow.
Side effects
- Video has no captions or auto-generated transcript available — returns empty or error
- Invalid or non-existent YouTube video ID — returns 404 or error response
- Video is age-restricted or private — scraping may fail
- YouTube anti-scraping measures block the request — returns error
- Payment of $0.01 USDC not completed — returns 402 Payment Required
Input
{
"input": {
"type": "http",
"method": "GET",
"pathParams": {},
"queryParams": {}
}
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
{
"_bytes": 262144,
"_preview": "{\"data\":{\"video_id\":\"NdU6UdUKaYc\",\"url\":\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdU6UdUKaYc\",\"title\":\"Scott Galloway: AI Wasn’t Built For You. The Rich Don’t Need You Anymore!\",\"language\":\"en\",\"source\":\"auto_generated\",\"transcript\":[{\"text\":\"I think the greatest brand destruction\",\"start\":0.08,\"duration\":3.92},{\"text\":\"over the last 18 months is the US brand\",\"start\":1.839,\"duration\":5.04},{\"text\":\"abroad and AI. So with America, Trump\",\"start\":4,\"duration\":4.32},{\"text\":\"has been convinced that this was his\",\"start\":6.879,\"duration\":2.8},{\"text\":\"defining moment of being known as the\",\"start\":8.32,\"duration\":2.88},{\"text\":\"president that liberated the Middle\",\"start\":9.679,\"duration\":2.721},{\"text\":\"East. But I think the Trump\",\"start\":11.2,\"duration\":2.559},{\"text\":\"administration will be known for\",\"start\":12.4,\"duration\":3.359},{\"text\":\"criminal corruption and incompetence.\",\"start\":13.759,\"duration\":3.841},{\"text\":\"And that incompetence is bubbling up.\",\"start\":15.759,\"duration\":4.321},{\"text\":\"And then the second greatest fall is AI.\",\"start\":17.6,\"duration\":4.4},{\"text\":\"And also Sam Alman who's gone to the\",\"start\":20.08,\"duration\":4.32},{\"text\":\"dark side. And I'm an AI optimist. But\",\"start\":22,\"duration\":4.08},{\"text\":\"here's what we fail to understand. These\",\"start\":24.4,\"duration\":3.6},{\"text\":\"techs, they do not have our best\",\"start\":26.08,\"duration\":4.24},{\"text\":\"interests at heart. Scott, I often come\",\"start\":28,\"duration\":4.239},{\"text\":\"to you to help myself form my opinions\",\"start\":30.32,\"duration\":2.88},{\"text\":\"on some of the most sort of\",\"start\":32.239,\"duration\":2.48},{\"text\":\"consequential issues going on in the\",\"start\":33.2,\"duration\":2.8},{\"text\":\"world. And when I look at some of the\",\"start\":34.719,\"duration\":2.721},{\"text\":\"quotes from the CEOs of these AI\",\"start\":36,\"duration\":2.559},{\"text\":\"companies, I've got one here from Elon\",\"start\":37.44,\"duration\":2.88},{\"text\":\"that says, \\\"AI and robots will replace\",\"start\":38.559,\"duration",
"_truncated": true,
"_contentType": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
}Tags
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