🎥 YouTube AI Summarizer - Gemini Edition

Transform any YouTube video into instant insights with AI-powered transcription and analysis. Works on 100% of videos - even those without captions!

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✨ Key Features

• 🎯 100% Video Coverage - Processes videos WITH or WITHOUT captions using Gemini AI
• 📝 Superior Transcription - Full transcript extraction (better than YouTube's built-in captions)
• ⚡ Lightning Fast - 2-minute processing for 30-minute videos
• 🌍 Multilingual - Supports 40+ languages
• 💰 FREE AI Processing - Uses Gemini Flash free tier (25 videos/day FREE!)
• 📊 Structured Output - Clean JSON with summary, key points, quotes, and topics

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🎯 Perfect For

• Content Creators - Quickly understand competitor content and trends
• Researchers - Extract key insights from educational videos and lectures
• Marketers - Analyze video content strategy and messaging
• Students - Get quick summaries of long lectures and tutorials
• Journalists - Extract quotes and key points from interviews

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🚀 How It Works

1. Submit YouTube URL - Any video, any length
2. Auto Processing - Tries captions first, then AI audio processing
3. Get Results - Full transcript + AI analysis in JSON format

Video URL → Captions or AI Processing → Full Transcript + Summary ✅

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📥 Input

{
  "youtubeUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID",
  "geminiApiKey": "your-gemini-api-key",
  "summaryLength": "moderate",
  "targetLanguage": "en"
}

Required:

• youtubeUrl - YouTube video URL or ID
• geminiApiKey - Free from Google AI Studio

Optional:

• summaryLength - brief, moderate (default), or detailed
• targetLanguage - Language code (default: en)

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📤 Output

{
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "title": "Video Title",
  "channelName": "Channel Name",
  "transcript": "Full transcript text (26K+ characters)...",
  "summary": "AI-generated summary paragraph...",
  "keyPoints": [
    "Key insight 1",
    "Key insight 2",
    "..."
  ],
  "notableQuotes": [
    "Memorable quote 1",
    "Memorable quote 2"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Topic 1",
    "Topic 2",
    "..."
  ],
  "transcriptLength": 26434,
  "transcriptionMethod": "captions" or "gemini-youtube-url"
}

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🔑 Get Your FREE Gemini API Key

1. Visit Google AI Studio
2. Sign in with Google account
3. Click "Get API key"
4. Copy your key

Free tier includes:

• ✅ 25 videos per day FREE
• ✅ No credit card required
• ✅ Perfect for personal use

Need more? Upgrade to paid tier for higher limits.

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💡 Pro Tips

Choose Your Summary Length:

• brief - 2-3 sentences (quick overview)
• moderate - 4-6 sentences (balanced, recommended)
• detailed - 8-12 sentences (comprehensive)

Multilingual Support:

Use language codes like es (Spanish), fr (French), de (German), zh (Chinese), ja (Japanese), etc.

Best Practices:

• ✅ Process videos during off-peak hours to stay within free tier limits
• ✅ Use moderate length for best balance of detail and speed
• ✅ Keep your API key secure (never share publicly)

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📊 Pricing

Component	Cost
Gemini API	FREE (25 videos/day) or $0.30/1M tokens
Actor Fee	$0.02 per run
Total	~$0.02 per video

Average 30-min video uses ~30K tokens = $0.0075 in paid tier

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⚡ Performance

• With Captions: ~30 seconds
• Without Captions: ~2 minutes (Gemini processes audio)
• Any Video Length: Up to 2 hours supported

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🎯 Use Cases

Content Research

Input: Competitor video URL
Output: Full transcript + key strategies + notable quotes

Educational Summaries

Input: Lecture or tutorial URL
Output: Key concepts + topics covered + structured summary

Interview Analysis

Input: Interview video URL
Output: Main points + memorable quotes + discussion topics

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⚠️ Current Limitations

• ⏱️ Timestamps: Only available for videos with captions
• 💬 Comments: Not yet analyzed (coming in v2.0)
• 📏 Max Length: 2-hour videos (Gemini limit)

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🆘 Troubleshooting

"No Gemini API key" → Add your key from Google AI Studio

"Processing failed" → Check if video is public and not restricted

"Empty arrays in output" → Retry - Gemini may need clearer prompt response

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📚 Example Results

Input: 33-minute business interview
Output:

• ✅ 26K character transcript
• ✅ 6-sentence summary
• ✅ 7 key insights
• ✅ 3 memorable quotes
• ✅ 5 main topics
• ⏱️ Processed in 2 minutes

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🚀 Get Started

1. Get your free Gemini API key
2. Run the Actor with any YouTube URL
3. Get instant insights!

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💬 Support

Having issues? Found a bug? Want a feature?

• 👎 Use the feedback button below any Actor run
• 💬 Comment on this Actor page
• 📧 Contact via Apify support

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🎉 Why This Actor?

✅ Only Actor with 100% video coverage (works without captions!)
✅ FREE AI processing (Gemini Flash tier)
✅ Full transcripts included (not just summaries)
✅ Fast processing (2 minutes average)
✅ Production-ready (clean JSON output)

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Target audience This tool is ideal for busy professionals who need to evaluate content quickly, students creating notes and cheat sheets, content creators streamlining their research process, educators preparing lessons, journalists extracting information for news, and casual viewers looking to maximize their content consumption efficiency.