video_id string | url string | status string | title string | channel string | duration_seconds int64 | language string | is_auto_generated bool | transcript string | word_count int64 | note null | segments list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
jNQXAC9IVRw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw | ok | Me at the zoo | jawed | 19 | en | false | All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants the cool thing about these guys is that they have really... really really long trunks and that's cool (baaaaaaaaaaahhh!!) and that's pretty much all there is to say | 39 | null | [
{
"start": 1.2,
"duration": 2.16,
"text": "All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants"
},
{
"start": 5.32,
"duration": 2.66,
"text": "the cool thing about these guys is that they have really..."
},
{
"start": 7.97,
"duration": 4.64,
"text": "really really long t... |
YouTube Video Transcript with Timestamps Sample (hirepulse/youtube-transcript-scraper)
Real sample output from YouTube Transcript Scraper (hirepulse/youtube-transcript-scraper) captured on 2026-10-15 for video jNQXAC9IVRw ("Me at the zoo"), including full text, metadata, and timestamped segments (start, duration, text).
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