YouTube Transcript & AI Summary Extractor
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YouTube Transcript & AI Summary Extractor
Extract YouTube transcripts from videos and Shorts URLs. Get clean transcript text, metadata, token counts, and optional AI-generated summaries in a structured dataset.
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YouTube Transcript AI Extractor
Turn YouTube videos and Shorts into usable text and summaries in one dataset row per URL.
What it does
- Resolves watch URLs, Shorts URLs, and raw video IDs.
- Fetches readable transcript text with metadata.
- Supports proxy fallback for restricted video pages.
- Optional sub-200-word AI summary per video.
- One dataset row per input URL.
Example 1: single-video transcript
{"startUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],"mode": "auto","maxVideos": 1,"includeRawTranscript": true,"includeSummary": false}
Example 2: batch Shorts rundown
{"startUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123","https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=def456"],"mode": "auto","maxVideos": 10,"includeRawTranscript": false,"includeSummary": true,"summaryModel": "gpt-4o-mini","maxTranscriptLength": 8000}
Run costs
This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:
- per dataset row written
- per run
Run cost depends on run count and row count. Check Apify console after you create a run.