# YouTube API — 5 Endpoints for Videos, Subtitles, Comments

> Video details, full timestamped subtitles, comments, channel listings, and search — a monthly credit pool instead of daily quota resets. 7-day free trial.

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# YouTube API — Without the Quota Math

The official API charges 100 quota units per search or comment pull from a 10,000-unit daily budget — these 5 endpoints price everything at 1 credit from a monthly pool, including full transcripts from any public video with captions.

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## What You Can Pull From YouTube

Video details Video details: title, views, likes, duration, tags, channel.

Video subtitles Full timestamped subtitles in any available language.

Video comments Comments with authors, likes, reply threads.

Channel videos Channel video listings with metadata.

Video search Search YouTube by keyword.

## What Comes Back

```
POST /api/youtube/video/subtitles
{
  "video_id": "abc123",
  "language": "en",
  "segments": [
    { "start": 0.0, "text": "Welcome back to the channel." },
    { "start": 3.4, "text": "Today we are indexing a full video library." },
    { "start": 7.9, "text": "Every video becomes a searchable document." }
  ]
}
```

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## Start With YouTube Data

Videos, subtitles, comments, channels, and search on the same key as 900+ other sources. 7-day free trial.

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## Common Questions

Can I get subtitles from any YouTube video?

From any public video that has captions — auto-generated or manually uploaded. Most English-language videos have auto-generated captions; videos without any captions return nothing to extract.

Is there a daily request limit?

No. Your credits are a monthly pool with no midnight reset — use them at whatever pace your pipeline runs.

Can I download the videos themselves?

No. The endpoints return metadata, subtitles, comments, channel listings, and search results — the text and numbers your agent can actually reason over, not video files.