Youtube Transcript API

ScrapeCreators offers an unofficial YouTube API that provides developers with real-time access to YouTube data. Key features include retrieving channel details, videos, shorts, comments, and search results. The API aims to simplify data collection by handling the complexities of scraping, offering reliable access without rate limits or IP blocks. Use cases range from content discovery and competitive analysis to influencer marketing and automated reporting. ScrapeCreators provides a quick start guide with example code and offers 100 free API calls to get started.

Taffy is a platform that provides YouTube channel intelligence for creators and market researchers. It analyzes video transcripts and comments to offer insights into trending topics, audience sentiment, content gaps, and audience requests. Key features include a channel intelligence dashboard, a "Chat with Channel" function for querying combined transcript and comment data, sentiment analysis, topic clustering, and a gap/opportunity finder. Taffy aims to go beyond simple transcript extraction by combining creator content with audience reactions. It offers a credit-based pricing model and a free trial with 25 credits. Use cases include competitor analysis, identifying content gaps, generating video ideas, conducting sentiment analysis, building audience personas, and tracking brand perception.

The YouTube Transcript API by YouTube-transcript.io allows users to extract transcripts from YouTube videos via a simple API call. It supports fetching transcripts for individual video IDs or entire playlists. The API requires an authorization token and accepts JSON data containing an array of video IDs (up to 50 per request). It has a rate limit of 5 requests per 10 seconds, with a 'Retry-After' header provided for exceeding the limit. The service also offers a 'Channels API' for Plus/Pro users to fetch channel information, including optional playlist data, with similar rate limits and authentication requirements. Integrations with automation tools like n8n and Make are also highlighted.

Supadata offers a simple and reliable API for developers and makers to extract structured data from web content and social media videos (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook). Key features include: * **Video Transcript API:** Extracts auto-generated and manual captions from various platforms, providing clean JSON output without proxies or rate limits. * **Web Scraping API:** Delivers clean, structured Markdown content, suitable for training AI chatbots, and bypasses CAPTCHAs and rate limits. Supadata is designed to be fast, plug-and-play, scalable, reliable, well-documented, and affordable, with a pricing model that starts free. Use cases span SaaS product development (chatbots, AI agents, content repurposing), content analysis (research, moderation, topic analysis), and feeding AI models (RAG, recommendation systems).