# Influship YouTube Video Transcript Scraper

> Influship YouTube Video 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 2026-09-13).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/transcript/RfSwSX7X9UA
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/influship-youtube-video-transcript-scraper-2c776d3d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5Ay5ha2p8AAcPwKjjLuiH

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-video-transcript-scraper-2c776d3d
```

Example prompt: Can you get me the full transcript of the YouTube video with ID RfSwSX7X9UA? I need the spoken text scraped live from YouTube.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the live, real-time transcript of a specific YouTube video by its video ID, especially for influencer content analysis or when you need up-to-date captions without relying on a static database. Prefer this over stored transcript services when freshness matters or the video is newly published.

## Known failure modes

- Video ID not found or invalid — returns error or empty response
- Video has no captions or subtitles available — may return empty transcript
- YouTube rate limiting or anti-scraping measures block the request
- Private or age-restricted video may not be accessible
- Network timeout during live scraping

## How this service works

Live YouTube scraping

## Output

Returns the full spoken transcript of the specified YouTube video, scraped live from YouTube's captions or auto-generated subtitles, as structured text content.

## 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-video-transcript-scraper-2c776d3d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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