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Fetches the full spoken transcript of a YouTube video given its URL or video ID
Transcript
Returns the spoken transcript of the YouTube video, typically as a sequence of text segments possibly with timestamps, covering everything said or captioned in the video.
GEThttps://mpp.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/youtube/video/transcript?utm_source=zero.xyzUse this endpoint when you need the spoken text content of a YouTube video without watching it — ideal for summarization, sentiment analysis, content moderation, research, or feeding video content into LLM pipelines. Prefer this over manual caption downloads when automating at scale or integrating into agent workflows.
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"transcript_only_text": " [Music] \n We're no strangers to \n love. You know the rules and so do \n I. I feel commitments from what I'm \n thinking \n of. You wouldn't get this from any other \n guy. I just want to tell you how I'm \n feeling. Got to make you understand. \n Never going to give you up. I'm going to \n let you down. I'm going to run around \n and desert you. I'm going to make \n you say goodbye. \n Tell a lie and hurt \n you. We've known each other for so \n long. Your heart's been aching, but \n you're too shy to say we don't know \n what's been going \n on. We know the game and we're going to \n play. If you ask me how I'm \n feeling, don't tell me your truth. to \n see. I will give \n you \n around \n you. I will say \n goodbye and hurt you. I will give \n [Music] \n you \n around you. I will leave you. I will say \n goodbye and hurt you. \n Never going to give. Never going to \n give. \n Never going to give. Never going to \n give. \n We've known each other for so long. \n Your heart's been aching, but you're too \n shy to say it. We both know what's been \n going \n on. We know the game and we're going to \n play it. I just want to tell you how I'm \n feeling. Got to make you understand. \n Never going to give you up. Never going \n to let you down. Never going to run \n around and desert you. Heat. \n [Music] \n Heat. Heat. Heat. \n [Music] \n Never going to tell a lie and hurt you. \n Never going to give you up. Never going \n to let you down. Never going to run \n around and desert you. Never going to \n make you cry. Never going to say \n goodbye. Never going to say goodbye."
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