# transcriptapi-io

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/transcriptapi-io/  
**Website:** https://transcriptapi.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

TranscriptAPI provides the fastest YouTube Transcript API for developers, enabling extraction of video transcripts with timestamps, search capabilities across videos, channel scraping, and playlist pulling without requiring YouTube Data API quotas or OAuth. It offers a free tier with 20 credits and aims to simplify transcript access for a variety of applications.

## Kin Score — 59.0 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 65.0 |
| Contract Quality | 62.6 |
| Contract Governance | 79.1 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.8 |
| Access Clarity | 60.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 34.3 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 53.3 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | unknown |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | unknown |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | paginated |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |

## APIs (1)

- **TranscriptAPI** — YouTube Transcript API – extract transcripts, search videos, browse channels.

## MCP servers (1)

- **transcriptapi-io MCP Server** — Remote MCP server at api.transcriptapi.io.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Transcriptapi Io Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Transcriptapi Io Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **Transcriptapi Io Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Transcriptapi Io Plans Pricing**

## Tags

YouTube, Transcripts, API, Video, Data

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