The YouTube API built for
AI Agents & Developers.
Extract timed video transcripts, resolve metadata, paginate comments, and search YouTube at scale. No Google Cloud quota limits, no OAuth credentials, and 90% cheaper than legacy providers.
Credits Never Expire
$1.00 = 10,000 Credits. No monthly subscription lock-ins. Top up what you need and scale up or down anytime.
No 10k Quota Caps
Skip Google's 10,000 unit daily limit and multi-week enterprise audits. Run high-throughput pipelines instantly.
Direct Upstream Pricing
Transcripts from $1.00/1K videos. Search from $0.10/1K items. Direct margin arbitrage.
2,000 Free Credits
Sign up in 10 seconds. Get immediate access to test video lookups, timed subtitles, and comments.
10 Lines of Code to Any YouTube Transcript
Standard JSON payloads with millisecond precision (offset_ms, duration_ms) and pre-concatenated plain text for instant LLM/RAG vectorization.
curl -s -X GET "https://api.youtubeapi.io/v1/youtube/transcript?video_id=dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
-H "x-api-key: yt_live_your_api_key"YouTubeAPI.io vs Official Google Data API v3
Why engineers migrate from Google Cloud Console to our purpose-built gateway.
| Feature | Google YouTube Data API v3 | YouTubeAPI.io Gateway |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Quota Limits | 10,000 units/day free (Search costs 100 units!) | Unlimited (Pay-as-you-go scale, no hard caps) |
| Video Transcripts & Captions | Restricted to owned channels via OAuth 2.0 | 100% of public YouTube videos & Shorts |
| Account & App Verification | Mandatory Cloud Console, consent screens, audits | Zero verification: instant API key in 10 seconds |
| Pricing Model | Opaque enterprise contracts & quota negotiations | $1.00 = 10,000 Credits (Pay only for what you use) |
| Effective Cost per 1k Transcripts | Unsupported for third-party videos | $1.00 ($0.001 / video) |
| Zero-Charge on Error | Errors consume quota units | Strictly 0 Credits deducted on missing/error data |
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