Get existing YouTube transcripts with timestamps

Choose one YouTube video URL or one channel URL to retrieve available existing captions, including YouTube auto-generated captions. Your Agent can read the returned transcript and summarize its content.

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Get existing YouTube transcripts with timestamps

Choose one YouTube video URL or one channel URL to retrieve available existing captions, including YouTube auto-generated captions. Your Agent can read the returned transcript and summarize its content.

You receive

Available transcripts contain text segments with start and end timestamp markers. You can also request a continuous text block without timing. Video and channel context may include titles, descriptions, upload times, links, thumbnails and view, like, comment or subscriber counts, plus information about the selected caption language.

Start with your task

Get captions from [a video link] or [a channel link]—choose one. For channels, get [up to 10 videos from the last 30 days]. Request [English captions] if available; report actual language and missing captions. Do not invent or translate. Add [one text block without time labels] if needed.

What to know

Captions must be available and accessible; missing captions or access restrictions can cause failures, and auto-generated text can contain mistakes. A requested language may fall back to another available caption language. This does not translate captions or create a new transcript from audio. Channel requests are capped and date-filtered, so they do not guarantee a complete channel archive.

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It uses captions already available from YouTube, including auto-generated captions. If no accessible captions exist, it may return no transcript or an error. It does not transcribe the audio anew, and automatic captions can contain mistakes.