YouTube Scraper + AI Transcript & Summary

A fast, low-cost YouTube data extraction API for Apify. Scrape YouTube Videos, Shorts, Live Streams, Channels, Playlists, Comments, Replies, and Filtered Search with optional AI Speech-to-Text Transcripts and AI Video Summaries.

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⚡ Key Features

• ⚡ Fast & Efficient: Designed for reliable, lightweight YouTube data collection.
• 🔍 Full YouTube Search: Search by keywords with YouTube search filters (sorting, date posted, video duration, HD, 4K, live, captions).
• 📹 Video Metadata & Metadata Enrichment: Extract detailed video records including views, likes, comments count, subscriber count, duration, hashtags, keywords, and live stream status.
• 📱 Shorts & Live Streams: Native support for YouTube Shorts and Live Streams across channels and search modes.
• 📺 Channels & Playlists: Channel extraction and playlist scraping with positional tracking.
• 💬 Comments & Replies: Scrape top-level comments and nested replies sorted by Top or Newest.
• 🎙️ AI Transcript: Optional speech-to-text transcription generated directly from video audio.
• 📝 AI Summary: Concise factual summary and key topics generated from the video transcript.
• 🏷️ Hashtag Discovery: Discover videos for any #hashtag.

Note: AI Transcript and AI Summary are temporarily unavailable and will be enabled soon.

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💳 Simple & Transparent Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

This Actor uses predictable Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing. Platform usage costs are included in the event pricing so you never get surprise compute bills.

Event Type	Event Code	Unit Price	Price / 1,000 Units
Actor Start	apify-actor-start	$0.00005 / run	$0.05 / 1,000 runs
Video Result	video-result	$0.0025 / item	$2.50 / 1,000 videos
Comment / Reply	comment-result	$0.0015 / item	$1.50 / 1,000 comments
AI Transcript	ai-transcript	$0.007 / started audio-min	$7.00 / 1,000 audio-mins
AI Summary	ai-summary	$0.001 / summary	$1.00 / 1,000 summaries

Pricing Examples

• 100 Video Results: $0.00005 (start) + 100 × $0.0025 = $0.25005
• 1 Video with AI Transcript (3 min video): $0.00005 (start) + $0.0025 (video) + 3 × $0.007 (transcript) = $0.02355
• 1 Video with AI Transcript & Summary (3 min video): $0.00005 (start) + $0.0025 (video) + 3 × $0.007 (transcript) + $0.001 (summary) = $0.02455

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🛠️ Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	Array of Strings	[]	Search keywords or phrases to scrape.
startUrls	Array of Objects	[]	YouTube URLs to scrape (Video, Short, Channel, Playlist, Search, Hashtag).
maxResults	Integer	20	Maximum number of videos/results to return per query or channel.
sortingOrder	String Enum	"relevance"	Sort search results: relevance, date, viewCount, rating.
dateFilter	String Enum	null	Filter search by upload date: hour, today, week, month, year.
videoType	String Enum	"video"	Filter search by type: video, channel, playlist, movie.
lengthFilter	String Enum	null	Filter search by duration: short, medium, long.
isHD	Boolean	false	Filter search results for HD videos.
hasSubtitles	Boolean	false	Filter search results for videos with subtitles/CC.
isLive	Boolean	false	Filter search results for live streams.
maxComments	Integer	0	Maximum top-level comments per video (0 = disabled).
maxRepliesPerComment	Integer	0	Maximum nested replies per top-level comment.
commentSort	String Enum	"TOP"	Sort comments by TOP or NEWEST.
enrichVideoMetadata	Boolean	false	Enable enhanced metadata (likes, comments count, subscriber count).
aiTranscript	Boolean	false	Generate an AI transcript for supported YouTube videos. Optional and charged per started audio minute.
aiSummary	Boolean	false	Generate a concise AI summary of the video's transcript.
aiLanguage	String	null	Target language code for AI processing (e.g. "en", "es").
maxAiVideos	Integer	10	Maximum number of videos to process with AI per run.

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📋 Sample Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 1,
  "aiTranscript": true,
  "aiSummary": true
}

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📄 Sample Output (Public Dataset Item)

{
  "type": "VIDEO",
  "id": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "title": "Me at the zoo",
  "description": null,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jNQXAC9IVRw/hqdefault.jpg",
  "channelId": "UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A",
  "channelName": "jawed",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A",
  "subscriberCount": 6380000,
  "viewCount": 403515717,
  "likesCount": 19000000,
  "publishedAt": "2005-04-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "duration": "00:19",
  "durationSeconds": 19,
  "isShort": false,
  "isLive": false,
  "liveStatus": "NONE",
  "commentsCount": 10000000,
  "subtitlesAvailable": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-07T22:30:41.988Z",
  "aiTranscript": {
    "status": "SUCCESS",
    "language": "en",
    "characters": 193
  },
  "aiSummary": {
    "status": "SUCCESS",
    "summary": "The video highlights an elephant, noting its exceptionally long front.",
    "keyTopics": ["Elephant", "Long front", "Animal observation"]
  }
}