# 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/subtitles) of a specific YouTube video by its video ID

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/transcript/pyjiysf89vU
- 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/influship-youtube-transcript-scraper-65fc024d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ynSkhoqKYNC-HrhHMViO8

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 influship-youtube-transcript-scraper-65fc024d
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the full transcript of the YouTube video with ID pyjiysf89vU? I need to read what was said in it.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the live, real-time transcript of a specific YouTube video by its video ID and do not have access to YouTube's official Data API or when official API access is unavailable. Prefer this over stored/cached transcript services when freshness matters or when the video is newly published.

## Known failure modes

- Video ID not found or invalid — returns 404 or empty result
- Video has no captions or transcripts enabled — returns empty or error
- YouTube blocks or rate-limits the scraper — returns 429 or service error
- Payment not provided or invalid x402 header — returns 402 Payment Required
- Network/scraping timeout on YouTube side — returns 503 or timeout error

## How this service works

Live YouTube scraping

## Output

Returns the raw transcript/captions of the specified YouTube video, including the spoken text content scraped live from YouTube's caption system for that video ID.

## 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

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/influship-youtube-transcript-scraper-65fc024d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.influship.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.influship.com/llms.txt)