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Supadata

YouTube Transcript API for developers & makers, plus TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook. Get transcripts (with AI fallback), video metadata, and AI video analysis from social media videos via one simple API.

Pricing Model

Free tier, Pay as you grow

Categories

api
developer tools
video transcription
youtube transcript api
web scraping
ai tools
data extraction
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Table of contents

What is Supadata?

Supadata is a YouTube Transcript API and web media intelligence API for developers and makers who need to turn social media videos into text and structured data. It focuses on three things: transcripts, video metadata, and AI-powered video analysis. With one API key and one response format, it works across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter), and Facebook, as well as hosted video and audio files. Supadata handles proxies, rate limits, and blocking for you, and returns clean JSON that is ready for AI pipelines, RAG, and automation.

Supadata as a YouTube Transcript API

The YouTube Transcript API is Supadata's core product. Send a YouTube URL (regular videos, Shorts, live stream recordings, or short links) and get back a timestamped transcript, with no OAuth, no Google Cloud project, and no YouTube quota to manage. Native captions are returned when they exist; when a video has no captions, Supadata automatically generates the transcript with AI speech recognition through the same endpoint and the same response format. Transcripts support 100+ languages with automatic detection, can be returned as plain text or as segmented JSON with millisecond offsets, and a batch endpoint lets you fetch transcripts for many videos in a single call. Unlike the official YouTube Data API, which has no transcript endpoint, or the open-source Python library, which gets blocked on cloud IPs in production, Supadata is a hosted REST API that works from any language.

Key Features

  • YouTube Transcript API: Fetch timestamped transcripts from any YouTube video, Short, or live stream recording, with native captions first and AI transcription as a fallback when none exist.
  • Multi-Platform Transcripts: The same endpoint also works for TikTok, Instagram Reels, X (Twitter) and Facebook videos, plus any hosted video or audio file.
  • 100+ Languages: Automatic language detection, an optional lang parameter, and transcript translation on higher plans.
  • Video Metadata: Titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnails, views, likes, comments and more for videos on YouTube and every other supported platform, returned as clean JSON.
  • AI Video Analysis: Define a prompt or JSON schema and get structured data back from any video; the model understands visuals, audio and context.
  • Batch Endpoints: Process many YouTube videos or transcripts in a single request for bulk pipelines.
  • Web Scraping & Crawling: Turn any URL or whole site into clean Markdown for AI training and retrieval.
  • SDKs and No-Code Integrations: Official Python and JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs, an MCP server for AI assistants like Claude and Cursor, and integrations for Zapier, Make, n8n, and Active Pieces.

Who Can Benefit from Supadata

  • AI/ML Developers: Teams building chatbots, AI agents, RAG pipelines, video summarization, or fine-tuning datasets that need reliable YouTube transcripts and video text.
  • SaaS Builders: Makers creating products on top of social media video, such as content repurposing tools, brand mention monitoring, or market research dashboards.
  • Content Analysts: Researchers and data scientists doing content moderation, topic and trend detection, competitive analysis, or sentiment analysis at scale.
  • Marketing Teams: Professionals analyzing competitor and creator videos across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram without manual copy-pasting.
  • Automation Enthusiasts: Users building no-code workflows in Zapier, Make, n8n or Active Pieces, or giving AI assistants video access through MCP.

What Makes Supadata Unique

  • Transcripts Even Without Captions: Among hosted YouTube transcript APIs, Supadata returns an AI-generated transcript when a video has no captions, which covers many live streams, older uploads and non-English videos.
  • Focused on Media Intelligence: Rather than scraping everything a platform offers, Supadata goes deep on what's inside the video: transcripts, metadata, and AI analysis.
  • One API for Every Platform: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and video files share the same key and response format, so adding a platform is a one-line change.
  • Developer-First Philosophy: Built by developers for developers, focused on simplicity and reliability without bloated features.
  • Production-Ready: Used by teams at companies such as AppsFlyer, Bosch, HelloFresh, Huel and OpenAI, with a public status page and high rate limits on paid plans.
  • Pricing That Scales to Zero: 100 free credits every month with no credit card, paid plans from $5/month, and one credit per transcript or metadata request.

Pros

  • Quick and Easy Setup: Get an API key in 30 seconds and make your first request immediately; the free tier needs no credit card.
  • Best-in-Class YouTube Coverage: Native captions, AI fallback, 100+ languages, millisecond timestamps, and batch support in one YouTube Transcript API.
  • Multi-Platform Coverage: A single API covers YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook, eliminating separate integrations.
  • No YouTube Quota or OAuth: No Google Cloud project, OAuth flow, or daily quota units to manage.
  • Clean, Structured Output: Well-formatted JSON for transcripts and metadata, and Markdown for web content, ready for LLMs and data pipelines.
  • No Infrastructure Maintenance: Supadata handles proxies, blocking, and rate limits so you don't have to maintain scrapers.
  • Flexible Integration Options: REST API, Python and JavaScript SDKs, an MCP server, or no-code platforms, depending on your workflow.
  • Real-Time Data: Every request fetches fresh data from the source platform.

Cons

  • Not a Full Social Media Scraper: Supadata focuses on shared content (videos, their transcripts, metadata and analysis) rather than scraping everything on a platform. It doesn't return things like user profile information, follower lists or account-level data, so you'll need a different tool for that.
  • Advanced Endpoints Require Pro: Web crawling, batch endpoints and transcript translation are available on Pro plans and above.
  • Limited Customization: As a managed service, advanced users have less control over scraping behavior than with a custom-built solution.

Summary

Supadata is a straightforward YouTube Transcript API that goes further than captions: it returns timestamped transcripts in 100+ languages, generates them with AI when no captions exist, and extends the same API to TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook videos, along with video metadata and AI video analysis. It isn't a general social media scraper for profiles or account data; it's focused on media intelligence, turning shared video content into clean, structured data. With a free tier of 100 credits per month, SDKs, MCP, and no-code integrations, it gets you from zero to production quickly.