My YouTube API Tool generated 10M transcripts this month

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I built this because running yt-dlp in production (especially on serverless/Vercel) is a nightmare of IP blocks, cold starts, and binary dependencies.TranscriptAPI is a lightweight wrapper that handles the extraction, formatting, and proxy rotation. It prioritizes manual captions over auto-generated ones and returns clean JSON with timestamps, ready for RAG pipelines.The MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integration: I recently added native MCP support. If you use Claude Desktop or other MCP-compliant agents, you can add this API as a tool to 'watch' videos directly in your chat context without manually copying transcripts.Technical Stack:Backend: Python (FastAPI) on AWS Lambda (for burst scaling

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Website: transcriptapi.com