# 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/yXe7RVoRK7U
- 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-e8f8bbfb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eoOVm4eWumrL66W7TrpW0

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-e8f8bbfb
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the full transcript of this YouTube video for me? The video ID is yXe7RVoRK7U.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need live, real-time transcript extraction from a specific YouTube video by ID and do not have access to YouTube's official API or the video's captions are not directly accessible. Ideal for agents that need to process video spoken content as text without video downloading.

## Known failure modes

- Video ID does not exist or has been removed — returns 404 or empty result
- Video has no captions or transcripts available — returns empty or error response
- YouTube rate limiting or blocking causes scrape failure — returns 5xx error
- Invalid or malformed video ID — returns validation error
- Payment of $0.01 USDC required but not provided — returns 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

Live YouTube scraping

## Output

Returns the full text transcript of the specified YouTube video, extracted live from YouTube's captions or auto-generated subtitles, including spoken dialogue and timing information.

## 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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