How to scrape YouTube video transcript

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode 'id=dQw4w9WgXcQ' \4  --data-urlencode 'language=de'

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",6    "language": "de",7}8res = requests.get(9    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript",10    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},11    params=params,12    timeout=60,13)14body = res.json()1516if body["ok"]:17    print(body["data"])18else:19    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  id: "dQw4w9WgXcQ",4  language: "de",5}).toString();6const res = await fetch(url, {7  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY },8});9const body = await res.json();1011if (body.ok) {12  console.log(body.data);13} else {14  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);15}

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  id: "dQw4w9WgXcQ",4  language: "de",5}).toString();6const res = await fetch(url, {7  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },8});9const body = await res.json();1011if (body.ok) {12  console.log(body.data);13} else {14  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);15}

1package main23import (4	"fmt"5	"io"6	"net/http"7	"net/url"8	"os"9)1011func main() {12	q := url.Values{}13	q.Set("id", "dQw4w9WgXcQ")14	q.Set("language", "de")15	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript" + "?" + q.Encode(), nil)16	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"))17	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)18	if err != nil {19		panic(err)20	}21	defer res.Body.Close()22	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)23	fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(body))24}

1<?php2$query = http_build_query([3    'id' => 'dQw4w9WgXcQ',4    'language' => 'de',5]);6$ch = curl_init('https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript' . "?" . $query);7curl_setopt_array($ch, [8    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,9    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["x-api-key: " . getenv("SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY")],10]);11$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);12curl_close($ch);1314if ($body["ok"]) {15    print_r($body["data"]);16} else {17    echo $body["error"]["code"], " ", $body["error"]["message"], "\n";18}

1require "net/http"2require "json"34uri = URI('https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript')5uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('id' => 'dQw4w9WgXcQ', 'language' => 'de')6req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)7req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY")8res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(req) }9body = JSON.parse(res.body)1011if body["ok"]12  puts body["data"]13else14  puts body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]15end

1import java.net.URI;2import java.net.URLEncoder;3import java.net.http.HttpClient;4import java.net.http.HttpRequest;5import java.net.http.HttpResponse;6import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;78public class Main {9    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {10        String query = "id=" + URLEncoder.encode("dQw4w9WgXcQ", StandardCharsets.UTF_8) + "&language=" + URLEncoder.encode("de", StandardCharsets.UTF_8);11        HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.newBuilder()12            .uri(URI.create("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript" + "?" + query))13            .header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"))14            .GET()15            .build();16        HttpResponse<String> res = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());17        System.out.println(res.statusCode() + " " + res.body());18    }19}

1using System;2using System.Net.Http;34var client = new HttpClient();5client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"));6var query = string.Join("&", new[] {7    "id=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("dQw4w9WgXcQ"),8    "language=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("de"),9});10var res = await client.GetAsync("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/youtube/video/transcript" + "?" + query);11Console.WriteLine((int)res.StatusCode);12Console.WriteLine(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());

1print(body["data"]["text"])

1console.log(body.data.text);

1body = res.json()2if not body["ok"]:3    err = body["error"]4    if err["retryable"]:5        ...  # wait a moment and send the same request again6    else:7        raise RuntimeError(f'{err["code"]}: {err["message"]}')

1const body = await res.json();2if (!body.ok) {3  const { code, message, retryable } = body.error;4  if (retryable) {5    // wait a moment and send the same request again6  } else {7    throw new Error(`${code}: ${message}`);8  }9}

1from socialscrape import SocialScrape23client = SocialScrape()  # reads SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY45res = client.youtube.video_transcript(id="dQw4w9WgXcQ", language="de")6print(res.data)7print(res.credits_charged, res.credits_remaining)

1import { SocialScrape } from "socialscrape";23const client = new SocialScrape(); // reads SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY45const res = await client.youtube.videoTranscript({ id: "dQw4w9WgXcQ", language: "de" });6console.log(res.data);7console.log(res.credits_charged, res.credits_remaining);