Vsauce Transcripts | Free YouTube Transcript API

Get transcripts of Vsauce videos via REST API. Thought experiments and curiosity content. Free tier available. Use the YouTube Transcript API to programmatically pull transcripts from Vsauce videos for analysis, summarization, search, or AI training.

Quick start

Get any Vsauce 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 Vsauce?

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

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