Social platforms

YouTube transcript

from $0.0150 per resultyoutube.transcript

Full transcript of a YouTube video as timestamped lines and optionally as one plain text block, alongside the video's title, channel, duration, view and like counts.

Can also walk a channel and transcribe its recent videos.

What a call costs

Billed on actual usage, minimum $0.0020 per call, capped at $4.00 per call.

a price before every call. failed calls are never charged.

When to use it

Use when you need what was actually said in a video: summarising, quoting, fact checking, or turning talks and tutorials into text. Give exactly one of youtube_url or channel_url. Each transcribed video is billed as one result.

Inputs

YouTube transcript takes 7 fields, none of them required. Anything you leave out falls back to the tool's own default.

FieldTypeRequiredWhat it does
end_datestringoptionalOnly channel videos uploaded on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). channel_url only
languagestringoptionalTranscript language as ISO 639-1, e.g. en or fr. Leave blank for the video's own default
max_videosintegeroptionalMaximum videos to transcribe from channel_url. Ignored for youtube_url. Billed per video
start_datestringoptionalOnly channel videos uploaded on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). channel_url only
channel_urlstringoptionalA YouTube channel URL. Transcribes up to max_videos of its videos, each billed as its own result
youtube_urlstringoptionalA single YouTube video URL (watch, youtu.be or shorts). Give this OR channel_url, never both
include_transcript_textbooleanoptionalAlso return the whole transcript as one plain string in transcript_text

How to call it

Connect once and your agent can reach YouTube transcript the same way it reaches everything else in the catalog. Add Goro as an MCP connector, or paste the setup line into an agent that reads skills.

MCP

Add this server in Claude, Claude Code, or any MCP client.

https://mcp.usegoro.ai/mcp

Skill

One line in your agent's chat. It sets itself up.

set up https://usegoro.ai/SKILL.md

Or plain HTTP

POST /v1/run

{
  "endpoint": "youtube.transcript",
  "input": {
    "max_videos": 10,
    "include_transcript_text": false
  }
}

Run YouTube transcript from your agent.

One balance for every tool in the catalog. Start with Build, $25 of credit for $19 a month.

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