I see you have now depreciated the single use GetTranscript and it is indeed failing with 400 errors on my site. https://docs.supadata.ai/api-reference/endpoint/youtube/video-get This was working fine for two months and the reason I purchased a yearly sub. Before I migrate to your batch downloading of transcripts is that depreciated too? How do you notify live production sites when you remove functionality they utilize? Please advise if this is superseded with another function. I can only find batch. Snippet: ## Documentation Index Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.supadata.ai/llms.txt Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Transcript Get transcript from YouTube video in various formats and languages. If the lang parameter is not provided or the transcript is not available in the requested language, the API defaults to the first available language. ## OpenAPI ````yaml v1-openapi GET /youtube/transcript openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Supadata description: Web & Social Media Content API for Developers version: 1.3.0 servers: - url: https://api.supadata.ai/v1 security: - apiKeyAuth: [] paths: /youtube/transcript: get: description: >- Get transcript from YouTube video in various formats and languages. -

supadata.ai 3 days ago

When calling supadata_client.metadata(url=tiktok_url), the SDK throws a TypeError instead of returning the metadata object. I am trying to just get the video description from a tiktok. Error TypeError: Metadata.__init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'url' Steps to Reproduce python from supadata import Supadata client = Supadata(api_key="your_api_key") metadata = client.metadata(url="https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123456") Expected Behaviour A Metadata object is returned containing the video metadata including description,title, author etc. Actual Behaviour The API call succeeds and returns a response, but the SDK fails to construct the Metadata object because the url field is missing from the response, causing a TypeError. Workaround Currently bypassing the SDK and calling the API directly: (python) import requests response = requests.get( "https://api.supadata.ai/v1/tiktok/metadata", params={"url": tiktok_url}, headers={"x-api-key": "your_api_key"} ) data = response.json() Environment Python version: 3.12 Supadata SDK version: 1.6.0 OS: macOS

franklatank01 7 days ago

Title: /v1/youtube/channel/videos returns empty videoIds for all channels since ~May 19, 2026 Body: Since approximately May 19, my production app stopped receiving new videos from this endpoint. Every channel I query — including major channels with daily uploads — returns: {"videoIds":[],"shortIds":[],"liveIds":[]} Reproduced with these channels (all have many recent uploads): 20VC: https://www.youtube.com/@20VC (also tried as channel URL) MKBHD: UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ BBC News: UC16niRr50-MSBwiO3YDb3RA Requests return HTTP 200 with no error. The /v1/youtube/transcript endpoint works normally for direct video URLs, so it's specific to channel-videos. My API key is active and has credits. Could someone investigate? My production ingest pipeline has been silent for 48+ hours.

nick 8 days ago

Hello, I have a Zap that fetches transcript from my latest YouTube videos in certain playlists and I keep getting an Error 404 when trying to fetch them. I use webhooks to communicate with Supadata from Zapier. The Zap works when I’m manually running it. When checking logs in Supadata it seems the error originates on this side. Any leads on what could be causing that Error and how to fix would be of great help. Thank you in advance.

esannie 9 days ago

For Instagram Reel URLs, the GET /v1/metadata endpoint intermittently returns a response that includes the author display name but omits the thumbnail and the author avatar. The same URL returns a complete response on most requests, so this appears to be a transient server-side issue rather than missing data for the post. Endpoint: GET https://api.supadata.ai/v1/metadata?url= Example URL that reproduces it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXzqhy6pfR-/ Reproduction and frequency: At roughly 2.5 requests/sec: ~1 in 6 requests returned the partial response. Spaced 2 seconds apart, which is within a 1 request/sec plan limit: still ~2 in 8 requests returned the partial response. Because it reproduces with 2 second spacing on a 1 req/sec plan, this is not a rate-limit effect. It is an intermittent server-side issue on the same URL. Expected response (majority of requests): author.displayName present author.avatarUrl present media.thumbnailUrl present Actual response (intermittent, ~20 to 25% of requests for the same URL): author.displayName present author.avatarUrl missing or empty media.thumbnailUrl missing or empty Questions: Under what conditions can /v1/metadata return author.displayName without media.thumbnailUrl / author.avatarUrl for a post that does have them? Is there a field or status in the response we should check to detect an incomplete result, rather than treating any 200 as complete? Is there a recommended retry or backoff approach, or a parameter to force a fully resolved response?

janhoff2000 10 days ago

502: Bad gateway

vntu98 22 days ago

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I am having an issue with logging in. The verification token expires in less than 2 minutes. Because of my corporate email, I receive the email after 2 minutes. This does not allow me to login before the verification expires.

jpboranprasit 24 days ago

I want to be able to identify the original language of a YouTube video via the API (e.g., in the /v1/youtube/video metadata endpoint). Currently, I have to provide a 'lang' parameter to get consistent results, but I don't know which language is the original one from the 'transcriptLanguages' list. This would help ensure I always get the correct original transcript.

polok.piotr144 30 days ago

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The /v1/youtube/playlist/videos endpoint randomly returns empty video lists ([]) even for public playlists. This is a critical issue for building reliable application logic. Sample Playlist ID: PL2lHZe6m6l0GnR9UpguK3vYZpsgQzl1MH Limit used: 5000 The user confirms the playlist is public. Similar intermittent empty array issues have been noted in other YouTube endpoints [REF-RESEARCH:RZK13K].

polok.piotr144 30 days ago

User reported a sign-in error: "installHook.js:1 Error: An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error." The user also noted several preload warnings for CSS and JS files on dash.supadata.ai. User email: [deleted]

enoteware about 1 month ago

I want word-by-word timestamps (word-level granularity) for the transcription API, not just phrase-level chunks. This is important for creating precise word-by-word subtitles for videos.

drstephenstrange2050 about 1 month ago

I want faster AI transcription latency for individual videos. Currently, AI generation (Whisper V3 Turbo) takes 20+ seconds, but I need it to be under 10 seconds to match competitors like tokscript.com. This is important for my workflow which requires near-instant results for individual social media clips.

amadikesullivan20 about 1 month ago

I want to be able to limit how many credits are used per call or have the call fail if the video length is beyond a certain amount when using "auto" mode. This is important to avoid unbounded API costs.

garron2 about 2 months ago

I want Supadata to extract native captions for TikTok videos more reliably, specifically for videos like https://www.tiktok.com/@doreenk.kalembe/video/7608717658577440030. Currently, Supadata takes ~20 seconds (falling back to AI generation) while competitors like tokscript.com finish in under 6 seconds using native captions. This speed increase is critical for my project's requirements.

amadikesullivan20 about 2 months ago

I want to be able to scrape actual image files (like screenshots of specific moments) from YouTube videos, not just text or AI descriptions. This is important for capturing visual content directly from the video.

tiranyas about 2 months ago

I want to fetch the default transcript for a video (not knowing ahead of time what language is spoken in the video). For this video of a woman speaking english teaching German I get a transcript in Spanish when I don't specify a language (or use auto in the playground). When I test with the playground feature of another API provider it returns an English transcript. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOtqMNKs0Jw

liam.c.murray about 2 months ago

The English transcript for this video (default or explicitly set english) is presented as large blocks. It is not fine grained line by line as you see in YouTube itself (or via fetch by other API I tried). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DoK7K9g7mE

liam.c.murray about 2 months ago

Hi Supadata team, I've been using youtube transcript API for a while and recently noticed a change in the format of the output that is breaking my application. Previously, when fetching a transcript, the content was returned as clean, structured text where each speaker's speech was grouped into a complete sentence or paragraph. This made it easy to process and identify speaker turns. However, sometime around January 17, 2026, the output format changed. The transcript is now returned as a sequence of short fragmented chunks — exactly as the captions appear on YouTube (short timed snippets). This makes it very difficult to work with programmatically, as the text is broken mid-sentence and speaker turns are no longer clearly grouped. Here is a simplified example of what I was getting before: Speaker 1 sentence here, complete and readable. Speaker 2 response here, also complete. And here is what I get now: word word word word word word word word word I haven't made any changes to my API request. I'm using the following parameters: mode: auto lang: ar I have two transcripts generated on the same day (2026-01-17) where the first one has the old format and the second already has the new format, which suggests the change happened on your side on that date. Could you please clarify: Was there an intentional change to the output format around that date? Is there a parameter I can use to get back the old structured format? If this was a breaking change, will it be documented going forward? Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

contact.galdi about 2 months ago

I want to be able to use Google Drive links in the Extract feature. Currently, it only supports YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, but I have videos stored in Google Drive that I need to analyze and extract structured data from.

mraffay854 about 2 months ago