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Youtube Text & Metadata Scraper

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Extract YouTube transcripts, AI summary, subtitles, video metadata, hashtags, thumbnails, views, duration, and release dates from YouTube videos using either a search query or a list of direct YouTube URLs. It helps you turn YouTube search results and specific video links into structured JSON data

Pricing

from $2.90 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Fabio Borsotti

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

4.6 hours

Issues response

a day ago

Last modified

Categories

Lead generation

Developer tools

You can access the Youtube Text & Metadata Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "direct_url": [
12        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqsDoIjXDPk"
13    ],
14    "langs": [
15        "it",
16        "en"
17    ],
18    "file_output": "output.json"
19};
20
21// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
22const run = await client.actor("ilborso/youtube-text-scraper").call(input);
23
24// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
25console.log('Results from dataset');
26console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
27const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
28items.forEach((item) => {
29    console.dir(item);
30});
31
32// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

YouTube Text & Metadata Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Youtube Text & Metadata Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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