Transcripts
Video transcript API
A video is hard to search until it is text. Each transcript comes back as full text plus timed lines, so you can quote a sentence along with the second it was said.
Example workflow
A channel’s 50 latest videos
- 1Find the videosyoutube.videos.search3 × $0.004$0.012
- 2One transcript per videoyoutube.videos.transcript.get50 × $0.004$0.20
One run$0.212
Or ask an agent with the MCP server connectedGet the transcripts of the last 50 videos on this channel and list every product they recommended, with the timestamp.