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What works on YouTube only

Channel, playlist and search listing, and why they do not exist for other platforms.

Three endpoints are YouTube-only:

  • POST /api/v1/transcripts/channel - a channel's videos, newest first
  • POST /api/v1/transcripts/playlist - a playlist's videos
  • POST /api/v1/transcripts/search - find videos by keyword

They return video metadata lists, not transcripts. Fetch the transcripts you want afterwards, individually or in a batch.

Why not TikTok or Instagram

Neither exposes a way to enumerate a profile or hashtag that we can offer reliably, so we do not pretend to. For those platforms, single-video transcription is the whole surface: bring the URLs and we return the text.

Pagination

List endpoints return up to limit videos per page (1-50, default 5) plus a next_cursor. Echo that cursor back as cursor for the next page.

Channel, playlist and search listing are YouTube features rather than ours; the platforms we cover for transcripts are listed on the TranscriptFetch homepage.

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What works on YouTube only · TranscriptFetch Help