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get-youtube-subtitlesfreeSERP Live

Get Youtube Subtitles Tool

Get the subtitle/transcript track for a YouTube video by its video ID. Returns the spoken text — use to analyze a video's content, extract topics/keywords, or summarize without watching. Optionally request a specific subtitle language or a machine translation. Get the video_id from get-youtube-search or a youtube.com/watch?v= URL.

Workflow guide: YouTube & Video SEO

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
video_idstringrequiredThe YouTube video ID (e.g. "dQw4w9WgXcQ" from youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ).
location_namestringoptionalLocation name. Defaults to US.
subtitles_languagestringoptionalLanguage code of the subtitle track to fetch (e.g. "en", "es"). Defaults to the video's native track.
subtitles_translate_languagestringoptionalLanguage code to machine-translate the subtitles into (e.g. "en").

Plan access

Available on the free tier and above. Live tools draw from your team's monthly credit budget at parity with upstream API cost (1 credit ≈ $0.001).

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