TranscriptAPI
TranscriptAPI provides production-oriented access to YouTube data for software and AI agents: transcripts, video search, channel browsing, playlists, new-upload tracking, and metadata. It exposes the capability through a REST API, a remote MCP server, and installable agent skills so developers can avoid brittle scrapers, browser automation, and YouTube cloud-IP blocks.
At a Glance
- Developers and software teams
- AI-agent builders and automation operators
- Content creators, publishers, and marketing teams
- Researchers, analysts, journalists, and competitive-intelligence teams
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TranscriptAPI
YouTube Data REST API for Agents
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Latest News
YouTube API expansion: channel and video endpoints; five new REST endpoints, richer search, tabbed feeds, and MCP expansion from 7 to 12 tools
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Transcription API Guide covering YouTube transcripts, speech-to-text, and file workflows
YouTube Transcript API for JavaScript and TypeScript guide
Products & Services
Credit-based REST API for extracting YouTube transcripts, searching YouTube, searching within channels, listing channel videos, retrieving playlist videos, resolving channels, tracking latest uploads, and retrieving channel/video metadata.
Remote Model Context Protocol server at transcriptapi.com/mcp for direct integration with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible agents; the September 2026 expansion describes 12 tools.
MIT-licensed GitHub skills for OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Cline, Codex, and other agent runtimes. The repository lists 12 skills including youtube-full, transcript, captions, subtitles, search, channels, playlist, data, API, transcriptapi, video-transcript, and yt.
Free, MIT-licensed workflow collection for AI agents and n8n. The official page lists 58 ready-to-use automations, including transcript summaries, channel monitoring, SEO/blog generation, RAG ingestion, Slack digests, study notes, competitor analysis, and bulk processing.
Market Position
TranscriptAPI positions itself as a production-focused, YouTube-specific alternative to fragile local libraries and general scraping platforms. Its differentiators are a reported 49ms median latency, transcripts plus search/channel/playlist coverage, predictable per-successful-request credits, native MCP and agent-skill distribution, and avoidance of browser/yt-dlp/cloud-IP blocking problems. The company's own comparisons identify youtube-transcript-api, Supadata, SearchAPI, SerpApi, Apify, YouTube-Transcript.io, ScrapeCreators, and YouTube Data API v3 as alternatives or competitors; the tradeoff is that TranscriptAPI is a newer brand and becomes paid beyond its free credits.
Leadership
Executive Team
Rohit Das
Product Partner, Zero Point Studio; product lead/operator for TranscriptAPI
His public profile says he helps run TranscriptAPI and works across product, pricing, docs, integrations, distribution, and whatever breaks next. He describes himself as a product partner at Zero Point Studio and has been building online since 2016.
Founding Story
The product addresses the problem that common YouTube transcript tooling based on yt-dlp, browser extraction, or the youtube-transcript-api library is vulnerable to cloud-IP blocks, rate limits, and parser breakage. The initial vision was a fast, reliable API that works everywhere and gives developers and AI agents transcripts plus broader YouTube discovery and channel/playlist capabilities.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription access to a credit-metered REST API and MCP service. Most successful operations consume one credit; users can buy top-up credits, and custom plans are offered through contact. The free tier is an acquisition tier with 100 credits and no card required.
Pricing Tiers
100 credits on signup; no credit card required.
1,000 credits/month, $2.50 per 1,000-credit top-up, API and MCP access, 200 RPM rate limit, and human support.
1,000 credits/month, $1.50 per 1,000-credit top-up, API and MCP access, 300 RPM rate limit (more on request), and human support.
Target Markets
- Developers and software teams
- AI-agent builders and automation operators
- Content creators, publishers, and marketing teams
- Researchers, analysts, journalists, and competitive-intelligence teams
- Education, edtech, students, and learning-and-development teams
- Investors, finance, investor-relations, and policy/comms teams
- AI summarization, note-taking, and chat with YouTube videos
- Content research, competitor analysis, topic discovery, and trend monitoring
- Search indexes, RAG/knowledge bases, embeddings, and training datasets
- Content repurposing into blogs, newsletters, LinkedIn posts, X threads, podcasts, and short-form scripts
- Education workflows such as study notes, quizzes, flashcards, course Q&A, and lecture chapters
- Monitoring channels, brands, influencers, policy speeches, product launches, and new uploads
- YouTubeToTranscript.com
- recapio.com
- The founder's public site reports 1,700 paying customers but does not name them individually