Monitor any YouTube channel for new videos and get the full transcript delivered to your webhook automatically. No YouTube API key, no polling code, no third-party transcript service to wire up.
// POST fires to your URL the moment a new video is detected { "event": "new_video", "subscription": { "label": "AI News", "channel_name": "Two Minute Papers" }, "video": { "title": "GPT-5 is Here and It's Remarkable", "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123", "published": "2026-04-29T10:00:00Z" }, "transcript": { "available": true, "text": "Welcome back, dear fellow scholars...", "segments": [{ "start": 0, "duration": 3.2, "text": "Welcome back" }] }, "enrichment": { // Pro + Agency "summary": "A breakdown of GPT-5's capabilities...", "key_takeaways": ["3x faster inference", "New reasoning mode"], "topics": ["ai", "gpt-5", "llm"] } }
# Pull everything from the last 24 hours for a tag curl "https://vidproxy.pro/api/videos?tag=AI+News&since=24h" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer tr_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx" # Response { "videos": [ { "channel_name": "Two Minute Papers", "video_title": "GPT-5 is Here and It's Remarkable", "published_at": "2026-04-29T10:00:00Z", "transcript_text": "Full transcript as plain text..." } ], "query": { "tag": "AI News", "since": "24h" } }
No infrastructure to provision. No YouTube API key to register. No OAuth flow. Just a URL.
Paste a YouTube @handle, full channel URL, or bare channel ID. VidProxy resolves it and records the latest video as a baseline — no backlog, just new content going forward.
Set a webhook URL for push delivery — VidProxy POSTs the payload the moment a new video is detected. Or skip the webhook and use the pull API on your own schedule. Both modes can coexist on different subscriptions.
Every new video arrives with the full plain-text transcript plus timestamped segments. Wire it straight into your vector store, automation workflow, or content pipeline.
Built for developers who want the data, not the overhead.
Uses the public YouTube RSS feed — no quota, no key rotation, no 10,000-unit/day ceiling. Works out of the box with zero Google Cloud setup.
Webhook push fires the moment a new video is detected. REST API pull lets you query by tag and time window on your own schedule. Use both on different subscriptions simultaneously.
Every payload includes the complete plain-text transcript plus timestamped segments. Ready for embedding, summarization, keyword extraction, or anything else your app needs.
Paste any YouTube URL and get the full transcript instantly — no subscription required. Works from your dashboard or the REST API. Pull history lets you subscribe to a channel in one click. 10–10,000 lookups/mo depending on your plan.
Native MCP server at vidproxy.pro/mcp. Add your API key once and your AI assistant can fetch transcripts, search your channel history, and list monitored channels — no copy-pasting, no context switching.
Every transcript is automatically processed by Claude to produce a summary, key takeaways, and topic tags — appended to the webhook payload. No prompting, no token management on your side.
Save keywords once and get emailed whenever any video across all your subscriptions mentions them — matched against the title and transcript. Track competitors, topics, or product mentions without manually scanning.
3-retry backoff on every webhook (2s / 10s / 30s). Full delivery log. Pause and resume individual subscriptions. Multiple videos between polls are delivered oldest-first so nothing is missed.
If your workflow needs YouTube transcript data, VidProxy is the missing piece.
Keep your AI assistant, chatbot, or RAG knowledge base current. Transcripts land in your vector store automatically as videos post — no manual copy-paste, no stale data.
Read more →The YouTube trigger that doesn't exist natively in any automation platform. Full transcript in the webhook payload, ready to pipe into any downstream step.
Read more →Monitor competitor channels. Every script lands in Slack, Notion, or your CRM the moment it posts. Use Keyword Alerts to filter for topics that actually matter.
Read more →Feed transcripts into GPT, generate SEO blog posts, and publish automatically. One YouTube channel becomes a continuous content feed with no human in the loop.
Read more →Subscribe to investor relations channels and receive full earnings call transcripts the moment they publish. Feed them into LLMs for sentiment analysis, guidance extraction, or competitive benchmarking.
Read more →Subscribe to your research channels and query GET /api/videos?since=7d once a week. One call returns everything, ready for your summarization step.
If it accepts a POST request, VidProxy can feed it.
REST API · Bearer token auth · JSON payloads
No credit card required to try it. Upgrade when you need more channels or faster polling.
Kick the tires. No card, no expiry.
For solo builders with one or two active pipelines.
For production pipelines that can't miss a video.
For teams building on top of VidProxy.
youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml) to detect new videos. There is no Google Cloud project to set up, no OAuth flow, and no API quota to worry about. You can monitor unlimited channels without ever touching the YouTube Data API.
GET /api/transcript) lets you pass any YouTube URL or video ID and get the full transcript back immediately — no subscription or channel monitoring required. Each successful fetch counts against your monthly lookup quota (10 on Free, 500 on Starter, 2,500 on Pro, 10,000 on Agency). Failed lookups don't count against your quota.
segments array with per-sentence start times and durations. Pro and Agency users also get an enrichment object with an AI-generated summary, key takeaways, and topic tags — all computed automatically, no configuration needed.
competitor, product launch, pricing). VidProxy will only fire your webhook if the transcript contains at least one of those keywords. Videos without a match are still stored for the pull API — they just don't trigger a push notification. Available on Pro and Agency plans.
"transcript": { "available": false }. This can happen with private videos, members-only content, very new uploads where auto-captions haven't been generated yet, or channels with captions disabled.
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