Practical Engineering Transcripts | Free YouTube Transcript API

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

Quick start

Get any Practical Engineering 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 Practical Engineering?

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

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