YouTube Transcript API

A simple serverless API to fetch YouTube video transcripts, deployable on Vercel.

Usage

Request

GET /api/transcript?videoUrl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Response

{ "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ", "transcript": [ { "text": "Hello world", "start": 0.0, "duration": 4.2 }, ... ] }

Deployment

1. Click the button above
2. Import into your Vercel account
3. Done!

Local Development

npm install && vercel dev