YouTube to JSON

How it works

1. Paste a YouTube video link or ID.
2. Preview the JSON.
3. Download the .json file, or call the API for the same shape from code.

What the JSON export looks like

Real output for “Me at the zoo”, the first video on YouTube, produced by the same code as the tool above.

{
  "video_id": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "title": "Me at the zoo",
  "channel": "jawed",
  "language": "en",
  "duration_seconds": 19,
  "transcript": "",
  "segments": [
    {
      "start": 1.2,
      "duration": 2.16,
      "text": "All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants"
    },
    {
      "start": 5.318,
      "duration": 2.656,
      "text": "the cool thing about these guys is that they have really..."
    },
    {
      "start": 7.974,
      "duration": 4.642,
      "text": "really really long trunks"
    },
    {
      "start": 12.616,
      "duration": 1.751,
      "text": "and that's cool"
    },
    {
      "start": 14.421,
      "duration": 1.312,
      "text": "(baaaaaaaaaaahhh!!)"
    },
    {
      "start": 16.881,
      "duration": 2,
      "text": "and that's pretty much all there is to say"
    }
  ]
}

Who it's for

• Developers building on transcripts
• RAG and search pipelines that need timestamps per chunk
• Data work in Python, JavaScript or jq

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