Get YouTube Channel Transcripts

Fetch transcripts for multiple videos from a YouTube channel. Videos can be sorted by popularity, newest, or oldest before selection.

Features:

• Fetches up to 20 video transcripts per request
• Sort by popular (most views), newest, or oldest
• Partial success — individual video failures don’t block the response
• Optional timestamped segments for each transcript

Pricing: 0.5 credits per transcript fetched ($0.005)

GET /v1/raw/youtube/channel-transcripts/{handle}

cURL

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/youtube/channel-transcripts/{handle} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>'

import Influship from 'influship';

const client = new Influship({
  apiKey: process.env['INFLUSHIP_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const response = await client.raw.youtube.getChannelTranscripts('@techreviews');

console.log(response.data);

import os
from influship import Influship

client = Influship(
    api_key=os.environ.get("INFLUSHIP_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
response = client.raw.youtube.get_channel_transcripts(
    handle="@techreviews",
)
print(response.data)

200

{
  "data": {
    "channel_id": "<string>",
    "handle": "mkbhd",
    "channel_name": "<string>",
    "videos_found": 4503599627370495,
    "transcripts_fetched": 4503599627370495,
    "transcripts_failed": 4503599627370495,
    "items": [
      {
        "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "title": "<string>",
        "view_count": 1,
        "published_text": "<string>",
        "language": "<string>",
        "full_text": "<string>",
        "word_count": 1,
        "transcript": [
          {
            "text": "Welcome to my channel!",
            "start": 0.5,
            "duration": 2.3
          }
        ],
        "error": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "scraped_at": "<string>"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed",
    "param": "query",
    "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
    "details": {}
  }
}

Authorizations

X-API-Key · string · header · required

Path Parameters

handle · string · required

YouTube channel handle. Accepts a bare handle (techreviews), an @handle (@techreviews), or a full channel URL (https://youtube.com/@techreviews); surrounding share tokens and trailing paths are ignored. A value that is not a channel handle returns a 400 validation error.

Minimum string length: 1

Example:

"@techreviews"

Query Parameters

video_limit · integer · default: 5

Number of videos to fetch transcripts for (max 20)

Required range: 1 <= x <= 20

Example:

5

language · string · default: en

Language code for transcripts

Example:

"en"

sort_by · enum<string> · default: newest

How to sort channel videos before selecting

Available options: popular, newest, oldest

Example:

"newest"

include_segments · boolean

Include timestamped transcript segments in response

Example:

false

Response

200

application/json

Successful response

data · object · required

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