YouTube has no transcript API. Here's how to get transcripts for a whole channel as rows (for RAG, search and summaries)
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The YouTube Data API gives you titles, views and tags — but not what was said. The captions endpoint needs the channel owner's OAuth token, so for anyone else's video there is no official way to get the transcript as data. If you're building RAG over video libraries, summarising a competitor's chan…
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- 2026-09-30 01:02 · DEV Community — AI
YouTube has no transcript API. Here's how to get transcripts for a whole channel as rows (for RAG, search and summaries)