Hi Product Hunt, I'm Aadit, the maker. I kept needing YouTube transcripts for side projects (summaries, search over talks, feeding tutorials to coding agents). The official Data API only gives captions for videos you own, and open-source scrapers work on a laptop but get blocked from cloud IPs. So I built TranscriptYT: one endpoint that returns timestamped JSON, or text, SRT, VTT, CSV or Markdown. It translates into 150+ languages with timings preserved, and videos with no captions are transcribed with Whisper. There's also an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can fetch a transcript when you paste a link. Failed requests aren't billed. 100 free transcripts, no card, then from $1.58 per 1,000. There's also a no-signup web tool if you just need one transcript. I'd love to hear what breaks or what format you wish it returned. I'll answer every comment.

TranscriptYT

YouTube transcripts API and MCP server for AI agents

YouTube transcripts API and MCP server for AI agents