Reddit Video Transcript API. Send a post link or ID.
Video post transcript, from captions or audio. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
Reddit Video Transcript API at a glance
Returns the timed transcript of a public Reddit video post from its link or ID, from Reddit's captions or, when it has none, its audio. Each segment has its start and end time, and text holds the whole transcript. Crossposts of a video, videos inside a text post, and v.redd.it, redd.it and app share links work too.
GET /v1/reddit/transcript
- 1 credit per request, up to 122 credits, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 requests
- 10 typed fields null when unknown
urlis all it needs, e.g.https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/- 100 credits free when you sign up, no card, so you can build before you spend
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$ npm install socialtapurl = https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/const params = new URLSearchParams({
url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript",
params={"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, meta = body["data"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('url' => 'https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]<?php
$query = http_build_query([
'url' => 'https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("url", "https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
var body struct {
Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"`
Error *struct {
Code string `json:"code"`
Message string `json:"message"`
} `json:"error"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if body.Error != nil {
log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
}
fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript' \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": {
"available_languages": [
"en"
],
"duration_ms": 94000,
"id": "t3_1xkav20",
"is_auto_generated": true,
"language": "en",
"platform": "reddit",
"platform_specific": {
"reddit": {
"caption_url": "https://v.redd.it/4xartwq86tyh1/wh_ben_en.vtt",
"video_id": "4xartwq86tyh1"
}
},
"segments": [
{
"end_ms": 15020,
"start_ms": 0,
"text": "He's going to be safe after some life. Oh, it's a little bit old. It's a little"
},
{
"end_ms": 29980,
"start_ms": 15020,
"text": "bit old. It's a little"
},
{
"end_ms": 29980,
"start_ms": 29980,
"text": "bit old."
}
],
"source": "captions",
"text": "He's going to be safe after some life. Oh, it's a little bit old. It's a little bit old. It's a little bit old. A little bit old. It's a little bit old. There's a question. Good, good, bye, bye. Good bye, bye, bye.",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/"
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "reddit",
"source": "captions",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 2591,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": {
"kind": "post",
"id": "t3_1xkav20",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/"
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"client_request_id": null,
"warnings": []
}
}import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";
const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY
const res = await client.reddit.transcript.get({ url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String query = "url=" + encode("https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript?" + query))
.header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
// An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
System.out.println(response.body());
}
static String encode(String value) {
return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}
}using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));
var query = string.Join("&",
"url=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
.get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcript")
.query(&[("url", "https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1xkav20/guy_saving_the_deer/")])
.header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
.send()?;
let ok = res.status().is_success();
let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
if !ok {
return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
}
println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
Ok(())
}200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/transcriptLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs One schema on 9 platforms.
The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.
Null means unknown
A field Reddit doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
Reddit video post URL: a post's page on any reddit.com host (www, old, new, np, m, sh), with or without its subreddit or slug, a comment's permalink (its post is transcribed), a redd.it short link, an app share link (/r/<subreddit>/s/<code>), a v.redd.it video link or a link to one of its files, or the post's ID (t3_ prefix optional).
Write one parser
Reddit, TikTok, Instagram and 6 more platforms answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.
platformstring- Platform the media is hosted on.
idstring- Platform-native ID of the post (equals post.id); of an ad library entry, its library ID (equals ad.id).
urlstring- Canonical URL of the post (of an ad library entry, its library page).
languagestring- BCP-47 language of the returned transcript; null when unknown.
sourcestring- captions = platform caption track; asr = speech-to-text on the audio. New values may be added.
is_auto_generatedboolean- True when the track was machine-generated (platform auto-captions or ASR).
available_languagesstring[]- BCP-47 caption languages the platform offers for this post; [] if none or not listed.
duration_msinteger- Media duration in milliseconds; null when unknown.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the Reddit Video Transcript API.
Turn Reddit videos into searchable text
Monitor what's said in a subreddit's videos
Summarize Reddit videos with AI
Quote or caption a viral clip
Good to know before you build.
- Without lang, or with English (en, en-US, en-GB), you get Reddit's own captions (meta.source = captions), which are machine-made and English only: speech in another language comes out as Reddit's English approximation. platform_specific.reddit.caption_url is the WebVTT file.
- With any other lang (es, fr, pt-BR), the audio is transcribed by speech-to-text in that language (meta.source = asr, priced per minute), never from Reddit's English captions.
- A video Reddit has no captions for, mostly older ones, is transcribed by speech-to-text whatever lang is (meta.source = asr, priced per minute), in lang's language or the one detected.
- GIF posts, videos without sound and videos with nothing but music return no_transcript. Text, image, gallery, poll and link posts return invalid_input, and a link post to another platform's video names the endpoint that transcribes it.
From 1 credit per request. Failed requests are free.
Buy credits once and spend them on any endpoint, on any platform.
| Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|
Captions captions | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
Speech-to-text asr | 2 credits + 2 per started minute of media up to 122 credits (60 started minutes of media) | $1.50–$3.93 + $1.50–$3.93 per started minute of media |
- Cache hits are free.
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- A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal.
- Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
- Outside the US, plans and packs are sold to businesses: checkout asks for your VAT, GST or other business tax ID.
Questions about the Reddit Video Transcript API.
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