SearchAPI.io - YouTube Transcripts API

SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-youtube-transcripts on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

YouTube Transcripts API allows you to retrieve transcripts (captions) from YouTube videos in various languages. You can fetch automatic or manually created captions and get a list of available languages for any video. Cross-linking: The video_id parameter accepts YouTube video IDs which can be obtained from: - YouTube Search API (videos[].id field) - YouTube Video API (video.id field) - YouTube Channel Videos API (videos[].id field) - YouTube Comments API (same video_id parameter)

• Tool id: searchapi-io-youtube-transcripts
• Provider: SearchAPI.io
• Job: Youtube transcripts search (search.youtube-transcripts)
• Price: $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect searchapi-io-youtube-transcripts prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"searchapi-io-youtube-transcripts","input":{"video_id":"<video_id>","engine":"youtube_transcripts"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "searchapi-io-youtube-transcripts",
    input: {
      video_id: "<video_id>",
      engine: "youtube_transcripts",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "searchapi-io-youtube-transcripts",
        "input": {
            "video_id": "<video_id>",
            "engine": "youtube_transcripts",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:search.youtube-transcripts as endpointId; see the job page.