Trying to use the YouTube API to pull through some videos for data analysis and am currently using just two videos in a dataframe to play around with the functionality as I'm new to all of this.

I'm using another API to get the transcripts for each video but I need to input the video_id into that API to get transcripts for each video.

The only problem is everything is stored as an object and whenever I try .astype(str) or something like that, it still says the data is an object and means I can't do anything with the data when a string is a required argument for the other API

This is what I get when calling .info() on my dataframe:

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 2 entries, 0 to 1
Data columns (total 10 columns):
 #   Column                Non-Null Count  Dtype 
---  ------                --------------  ----- 
 0   video_id              2 non-null      object
 1   publishedAt           2 non-null      object
 2   channelId             2 non-null      object
 3   title                 2 non-null      object
 4   description           2 non-null      object
 5   channelTitle          2 non-null      object
 6   tags                  2 non-null      object
 7   categoryId            2 non-null      object
 8   liveBroadcastContent  2 non-null      object
 9   defaultAudioLanguage  2 non-null      object
dtypes: object(10)
memory usage: 288.0+ bytes

Any help would be really appreciated or an explanation of how these issues are usually handled