# YouTube Transcript Scraper Pro (Captions + AI Fallback) An ai tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/codepoetry/youtube-transcript-ai-scraper ## What you need An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key. ## Inputs - `startUrls` (array, required): YouTube URLs - `maxResults` (integer): Max videos per playlist/channel (e.g. 10) - `languages` (array): Caption languages (e.g. ["en"]) - `subType` (string): Caption source (e.g. "both") - `outputFormats` (array): Output formats (e.g. ["json","text"]) - `wordLevel` (boolean): Word-level timestamps The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them. ## Price 5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities ## Run it 1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=YouTube%20Transcript%20Scraper%20Pro%20(Captions%20%2B%20AI%20Fallback) with Authorization: Bearer . Take the result named "YouTube Transcript Scraper Pro (Captions + AI Fallback)"; it carries a proxy_route. 2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header. 3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md