transcriptapi.com
A simple API endpoint where you send a YouTube URL and receive the video transcript (supports all caption languages).
Problem it solves. Removes the need to maintain brittle YouTube scraping/proxy infrastructure by handling proxy rotation, retry logic and caching for transcript extraction.
Who pays. Developers building AI tools that ingest YouTube video content (summarisers, dataset builders, agents).
Market. APIs / developer tools / data extraction
Claimed. Numbers are not life changing but its profitable.
The founder provides a reachable product URL and specific operational details (proxy rotation, caching, one endpoint) and multiple commenters discuss the technical reality rather than calling it promotional or fabricated; some skepticism about maintenance claims lowers the score.
“3-4 hours a month is the part im not buying. youtube changes something and your retry logic is what broke, and you find out from a customer, not from a dashboard.” ▲ 40
“That maintenance math doesnt work. If youtube breaks stuff every few weeks thats two-plus incidents a month on its own, so the 3-4 hours is per incident, not per month.” ▲ 30
“The moat is nonexistent, youre right. Anyone can build this. Most people do build it, use it for a month, and stop maintaining it.” ▲ 25