TED Talk Video Downloader 🎥

Download videos and audio from TED.com talks with ease! This actor helps you extract downloadable media content from TED talk URLs.

Features ✨

• 🎯 Extract video content in multiple qualities (low, medium, high)
• 🎧 Download audio-only version of talks
• 📊 Detailed metadata including title and duration
• 🚀 Process multiple TED talk URLs in batch
• ⚡ Fast and efficient processing
• 💾 Structured JSON output

Input Parameters 📝

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• links (Array): List of TED talk URLs to process

Output Format 📋

The actor outputs JSON format data containing:

• Original URL
• Talk title
• Video duration
• Available media formats (video/audio)
• Direct download links for different quality options

Usage 💡

1. Input one or more TED talk URLs
2. Run the actor
3. Get structured data with download links
4. Choose your preferred quality and format

Limitations ⚠️

• Only works with public TED talk URLs
• Respects TED.com's terms of service
• Rate limiting applied to prevent overload

Support 🤝

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please create an issue.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "links": [
3        "https://www.ted.com/talks/julieanna_l_richardson_the_mission_to_safeguard_black_history_in_the_us"
4    ]
5}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "url": "https://www.ted.com/talks/julieanna_l_richardson_the_mission_to_safeguard_black_history_in_the_us",
4        "result": {
5            "url": "https://www.ted.com/talks/julieanna_l_richardson_the_mission_to_safeguard_black_history_in_the_us",
6            "title": "<3",
7            "source": "ted",
8            "thumbnail": "",
9            "duration": 0,
10            "medias": [
11                {
12                    "url": "https://download.ted.com/products/153539.mp4?apikey=acme-roadrunner",
13                    "quality": "low",
14                    "extension": "mp4",
15                    "type": "video"
16                },
17                {
18                    "url": "https://download.ted.com/products/153540.mp4?apikey=acme-roadrunner",
19                    "quality": "medium",
20                    "extension": "mp4",
21                    "type": "video"
22                },
23                {
24                    "url": "https://download.ted.com/products/153541.mp4?apikey=acme-roadrunner",
25                    "quality": "high",
26                    "extension": "mp4",
27                    "type": "video"
28                },
29                {
30                    "url": "https://download.ted.com/talks/JulieannaLRichardson_2021X.mp3",
31                    "quality": "audio",
32                    "extension": "mp3",
33                    "type": "audio"
34                }
35            ],
36            "type": "multiple",
37            "error": false,
38            "time_end": 623
39        }
40    }
41]