YouTube Transcript FastAPI

FastAPI wrapper for youtube-transcript-api library.

Endpoints

GET /

Root endpoint with API information

GET /health

Health check

POST /transcript

Get transcript for YouTube video

Request:

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "lang": "en"
}

Response:

{
  "success": true,
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "transcript": "Full text here...",
  "length": 2089
}

GET /transcript?video_id=XXX&lang=en

GET alternative for transcript

Local Development

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run server
uvicorn main:app --reload

# Test
curl http://localhost:8000/health
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/transcript \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"video_id":"dQw4w9WgXcQ"}'

Railway Deployment

1. Push code to GitHub
2. Create Railway account (https://railway.app)
3. Deploy from GitHub repo
4. Railway auto-detects Dockerfile
5. Get public URL

Deployment

See: ../plan.md - Tasks 2 & 3