Crash Course Transcripts | Free YouTube Transcript API

Get transcripts of Crash Course videos via REST API. Educational explainers. Free tier available. Use the YouTube Transcript API to programmatically pull transcripts from Crash Course videos for analysis, summarization, search, or AI training.

Quick start

Get any Crash Course video's transcript in one HTTP request:

curl "https://youtubetranscript.us/api/v1/transcript?video_id=YOUR_VIDEO_ID" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

Python example

import requests
r = requests.get("https://youtubetranscript.us/api/v1/transcript",
                 params={"video_id": "VIDEO_ID"},
                 headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_KEY"})
data = r.json()
for line in data["transcript"]:
    print(line["start"], line["text"])

Why use it for Crash Course?

Get started: Sign up for a free API key. 500 requests/month on the starter plan.

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