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from $80.00 / 1,000 reel distilleds

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Short Video Transcripts & Notes by Topic or Channel

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Search YouTube Shorts by topic or point it at a channel. Get the full transcript of each video plus the claims, tools and tips it mentions, as rows you can filter and export.

Pricing

from $80.00 / 1,000 reel distilleds

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Developer

jay casey

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Monthly active users

4 days ago

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Quick start

Press Start to process one sample Short. Then type a topic into Search Shorts by topic, or paste a channel like youtube.com/@Fireship, and set Max videos per run to 50.

What you get

Full transcript, title, author, duration and link for every video
The claims made, each with the supporting quote
Tools and products mentioned, a theme, up to three categories and a quality score
A note on why it matters to the reader you describe
Transcript-only mode at a lower price if you just want the text

Good for

Building a searchable library of what creators in your niche teach
Tracking which tools keep coming up in short-form video
Turning a channel into notes you can actually skim

Pricing

$0.012 per video transcribed
$0.008 more per video for the notes
50 videos with notes cost $1

You pay only for results that come back. Set a max cost per run in the run options and the run stops cleanly when it hits it. Normal Apify platform usage applies.

Input

Field	What it does
`searchShorts`	Type a topic, like cold email tips or meal prep. We find matching YouTube Shorts and turn each into a transcript plus notes. No links to collect.
`profiles`	A YouTube channel (youtube.com/@Fireship) or TikTok profile (tiktok.com/@handle). We take its latest videos, up to the limit below. Instagram profiles need a login, so they are skipped.
`reelUrls`	YouTube Shorts, TikTok videos or Instagram reels (share, then copy link). Instagram only serves some videos to logged-out visitors; any that fail show up as an error row, not made-up text.
`resultsLimit`	1 to 300. Videos already in your dataset are skipped next time.
`transcriptOnly`	Skip the notes and get just the transcript at the lower per-video price.
`perspective`	One line, like a solo founder building a SaaS or a sales team. Used to judge which points matter.
`reelUrlsFile`	Public link to a JSON, CSV or text file. Every YouTube, TikTok and Instagram link inside is added to the run.
`categories`	Leave empty for the built-in set. Format: a list of {"id": "sales", "description": "..."}. An other category is always added.
`minTranscriptChars`	Videos with less speech than this (music or text-only clips) are marked no speech and not analysed.
`transcription`	Leave as is. mode: hosted (default, our Whisper large-v3), local (slower CPU), whisper-api (your endpoint via baseUrl and openaiApiKey) or none. language applies to every mode.
`llm`	Leave blank. Only for teams who want the note step billed to their own OpenAI-compatible key: provider, baseUrl, model, apiKey.

Limits

Public videos only. Instagram profiles need a login, so paste reel links instead.
Music-only or text-overlay clips are marked no speech and not analysed.

Run it from code

Same input as the Console sample:

{
  "reelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fwBIZRq-vzY"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 5,
  "transcription": {
    "mode": "hosted"
  }
}

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/physealabs~reel-knowledge-distiller/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @input.json

from apify_client import ApifyClient
items = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN").actor("physealabs/reel-knowledge-distiller").call(run_input={"reelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fwBIZRq-vzY"], "resultsLimit": 5, "transcription": {"mode": "hosted"}})

It also works from Zapier, Make, n8n and Apify schedules.

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