YouTube AI Video Summarizer & Transcript Extractor

The YouTube AI Video Summarizer is a specialized Apify Actor designed to convert long-form video content into concise, readable, and actionable intelligence. It bypasses the manual effort of watching hours of video by extracting transcripts and using high-level AI to summarize the most important parts.

🚀 Why use this Actor?

• Save Time: Instant summaries for videos of any length (podcasts, tutorials, lectures).
• Free Raw Transcript: Every summary includes the full extracted raw transcript at no extra cost. Perfect for researchers, bloggers, and developers.
• High Reliability: Uses Apify Residential Proxies to avoid YouTube's aggressive cloud-blocking, ensuring your tasks don't fail.
• AI Intelligence: Leveraging advanced AI models (Gemini/GPT) for intelligent summaries.
• Multilingual Support: Supports any video with a transcript in any language.
• Timestamps: Optional timestamps in transcripts for easy reference.

🛠️ Features

• Robust Transcript Extraction: Finds manual captions first, with smart fallback to auto-generated transcripts.
• 2-in-1 Output: Delivers both the AI summary and the full raw transcript in a single run.
• Customizable Summary Length: Choose between quick overview (200 words) to detailed breakdown (1000+ words).
• Multiple Output Formats: Get summaries as detailed paragraphs, bullet points, or short summaries.
• Language Selection: Force specific language or let it auto-detect.
• Metadata Included: Every result includes video URL, transcript length, and detected language.

📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Description
Video URL	Full YouTube link (youtube.com/watch?v= or youtu.be/)
Max Length	Target word count for summary (200-1000)
Language	Preferred transcript language (e.g., "en", "es", "de") or leave empty for auto
Include Timestamps	Add [MM:SS] timestamps to the transcript
Output Format	Choose: detailed paragraphs, bullet points, or short summary
Proxy Configuration	Defaults to Residential Proxies for reliability

📤 Output Format

{
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...",
  "transcript": "Hello everyone, welcome to the video...",
  "transcriptWithTimestamps": "[00:00] Hello everyone\n[00:15] welcome to the video...",
  "transcriptLength": 46632,
  "summary": "This video covers the latest trends in AI development...",
  "language": "en"
}

💡 Use Cases

• Researchers: Quick overview of academic talks and lectures
• Content Creators: Extract key points for video ideas or show notes
• Students: Summarize educational videos for studying
• Developers: Build YouTube-to-text workflows
• Journalists: Transcribe and summarize interviews quickly

💰 Pricing

• Pay-per-result: only for successful summaries
• Includes transcript extraction + AI summarization
• Uses Apify Residential proxies to prevent blocking

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