YouTube Channel, Transcript & Comments Monitor Lite

Extract public YouTube video data from channel URLs, handles, video URLs, or video IDs.

Use it to collect video metadata, transcripts when available, and a bounded number of top-level comments.

What you get

The Actor can return four row types:

• video — video title, URL, channel, views, duration, publish date, and other public metadata
• transcript — transcript text and timestamped segments, when captions/transcripts are available
• comment — public top-level comments, when comments are available
• error — a structured row explaining what could not be collected

Quick start

Start with one video URL.

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "includeVideoDetails": true,
  "includeTranscripts": true,
  "transcriptLanguages": ["en"],
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 5
}

For channels, use:

{
  "channels": ["@TED"],
  "maxVideosPerChannel": 5,
  "includeVideoDetails": true,
  "includeTranscripts": true,
  "includeComments": false
}

Input fields

• channels — YouTube handles, channel URLs, or channel IDs.
• videoUrls — YouTube video URLs or video IDs.
• maxVideosPerChannel — how many recent videos to collect per channel.
• includeVideoDetails — collect video metadata.
• includeTranscripts — collect transcripts when available.
• transcriptLanguages — preferred transcript languages, such as en.
• includeComments — collect top-level public comments.
• maxCommentsPerVideo — comment limit per video.
• commentSort — comment sort mode when supported.

Output

Results are saved to the default Apify dataset. Rows include recordType so you can filter videos, transcripts, comments, and errors.

Video rows include videoDownloadUrl. This is a stable YouTube watch-page URL for download workflows. The Actor does not return short-lived signed media file URLs.

Limits

This Actor only uses public YouTube data. It does not log in, use cookies, bypass CAPTCHA, access private/member-only videos, or guarantee transcripts/comments when YouTube does not make them available.