# YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API

A videos tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/johnvc/YoutubeTranscripts

## 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

- `youtube_url` (string): YouTube URL(s)
- `languages` (array): Preferred Languages (e.g. ["en"])
- `translate_to` (string): Translate To
- `transcript_type` (string): Transcript Type (e.g. "any")
- `output_formats` (array): Additional Output Formats
- `preserve_formatting` (boolean): Preserve HTML formatting

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%20%26%20Subtitles%20Scraper%20API with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API"; 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