🎥 Premium YouTube Data & Media Extractor

The most robust, high-speed, and feature-rich YouTube scraper on the Apify platform. Designed for AI researchers, data scientists, and content automation workflows, this Actor extracts everything from raw 4K video and high-fidelity audio to structured transcripts and deep metadata.

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🌟 Why this Extractor?

Market-leading scrapers often struggle with YouTube's evolving bot detection or offer thin metadata. Our Premium Extractor is built on a high-concurrency architecture with built-in bot bypass and smart proxy routing, ensuring you get the data you need at scale.

Key Features:

• ⚡ High Concurrency: Process hundreds of videos in minutes using optimized async workers.
• 🤖 Bot-Bypass Pro: Integrated with modern PO-Token providers to handle YouTube's latest security layers.
• 💸 Smart Proxy Fallback: Intelligently detects blocks and only uses expensive proxies when strictly necessary, saving you up to 80% on compute costs.
• 📝 Dual Transcript Extraction: Pulls full text transcripts directly into the Dataset AND uploads raw SRT/VTT files to the Key-Value Store.
• 🔗 Direct Streaming URLs: Extract signed, time-limited streaming URLs for instant playback without the overhead of downloading files.
• 🎞️ High Quality Formats: Supporting up to 1080p MP4 video and 192kbps MP3 audio extraction.

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🛠️ How to Use

1. Input: Provide a list of YouTube URLs (Videos, Shorts, or Playlists).
2. Select Mode: Choose between video_mp4, audio_mp3, transcript_only, or direct_signed_urls.
3. Set Limits: Use maxItems and maxPlaylistItems to control your budget and run duration.
4. Proxy (Optional): Enable useSmartFallback to automatically route around throttled IPs.

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📊 Rich JSON Output Example

Each result in your dataset includes comprehensive metadata tailored for NLP and analysis:

{
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ",
  "title": "Big Buck Bunny 60fps 4K - Official Blender Foundation Short Film",
  "channelName": "Blender",
  "viewCount": 25489632,
  "duration": 596,
  "status": "success",
  "mode": "video_mp4",
  "downloadUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/example-store-id/records/aqz-KE-bpKQ.mp4",
  "transcriptText": "[Music]\nHello world, this is a transcript example...",
  "transcriptDownloadUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/example-store-id/records/aqz-KE-bpKQ_transcript.en.vtt",
  "metadata": {
    "id": "aqz-KE-bpKQ",
    "uploadDate": "20100528",
    "isLive": false
  }
}

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💰 Cost Estimation

This Actor is highly optimized for performance:

• Metadata Only: ~0.01 CU per 100 items.
• Transcripts: ~0.05 CU per 100 items.
• Media Download: Depends on file size and proxy usage. Typically ~0.2 CU per GB.

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⚖️ License & Disclaimer

This tool is for personal and research use. Please respect YouTube's Terms of Service and only scrape content you have permission to access. We do not host or store any media content on our servers.

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📬 Support

Need a custom feature or high-volume enterprise support? Visit our Issues tab or contact the developer via the Apify Console.