Connect YouTube Transcript to your AI agent

AI Tools 9 actions available

Retrieve and store captions for one video or a bounded batch, read job and batch status, access stored transcripts and languages, and resolve playlist or channel video metadata through the YouTube Transcript REST API.

We set up the connection using your own YouTube Transcript account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.

Book a setup call → See pricing
Actions

What your agent can do in YouTube Transcript

Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around YouTube Transcript could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.

  • Get Stored Transcript Read a transcript already stored in the connected account without submitting new transcription work or consuming retrieval credits.
  • Get Video Transcript Fetch captions for one YouTube video and store the resulting transcript in the connected account. This consumes provider credits, but never starts ASR. The tool waits up to 20 seconds for asynchronous caption jobs; if o…
  • Get Video Transcript Job Status Read one transcript job's current processing, completed, failed, or requires-ASR-confirmation state without creating work or waiting. Use this one-shot read when GET_VIDEO_TRANSCRIPT times out, passing the same include…
  • Get Video Transcripts Batch Fetch and store captions for 1-10 YouTube videos. Each uncached video can consume provider credits, so cost scales with the request size. ASR never starts. This creates one batch and waits up to 20 seconds for a termina…
  • Get Video Transcripts Batch Status Read the current state and available per-video results for a transcript batch without creating work or waiting. Use this one-shot read to recover when GET_VIDEO_TRANSCRIPTS_BATCH times out while the provider is still pr…
  • List Stored Transcripts List and search transcripts already stored in the connected account, one bounded page at a time.
  • List Transcript Languages List stored languages and YouTube translation target languages for one owned video transcript.
  • Resolve Channel Videos Requires Basic or higher. Resolve a YouTube channel into bounded upload metadata without transcribing the videos. This may count against the account's monthly channel allowance.
  • Resolve Playlist Videos Requires Basic or higher. Resolve a YouTube playlist into bounded video metadata without transcribing the videos. This may count against the account's monthly playlist allowance.
Setup

How we connect it

  1. 1

    Connect your account

    You create a key in YouTube Transcript, a key you create and control, and paste it in once. It lives in a secrets store on your server, not with us.

  2. 2

    Set the guardrails

    Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.

  3. 3

    We keep it running

    Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.

FAQ

YouTube Transcript questions, answered.

With a key you create and control. You paste it in once, it is stored in a secrets store on your server, permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, and you can revoke it at any time.
The actions YouTube Transcript's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.

Ready to put YouTube Transcript to work?

Tell us what your team runs on. We set up the connection, secure it, and your agent takes it from there.

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