# MediaCaption API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mediacaption-api/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

A credit-billed REST API for retrieving public YouTube transcripts, with single and bulk transcript jobs, job-level webhooks, and AI transcription/translation capabilities. Backed by a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract with bearer/X-API-Key authentication.

## Kin Score — 13.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 28.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 15.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **Media Caption Public API** — REST API for fetching public YouTube transcripts synchronously and in bulk, with account/balance endpoints, job polling, and completion webhooks. Bearer API key or X-API-Key auth.

## Tags

YouTube, Transcription, Captions, Subtitles, Video, REST, OpenAPI, Webhook, Speech-to-Text, Media, Developer Tools

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/mediacaption-api/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.