Get the transcript of a TED talk on YouTube
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Downloads the full transcript of Ken Robinson's TED talk "Do schools kill creativity?" with timestamps. Swap in any YouTube link to get its transcript as text or JSON for notes, summaries, quotes or AI tools.
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The TED talk transcript task returns Ken Robinson's "Do schools kill creativity?" as full text and timestamped segments, with word count, language, video title, channel, duration, view count and thumbnail.
The TED talk transcript task takes YouTube links or video IDs. Replace the Ken Robinson link with any TED talk, or any other YouTube video, and run it again; several links can go in one run.
The TED talk transcript task lists every caption language the video has, 65 for this talk. Set the language field to a code such as fr or pt-BR to get that translation instead of English.
The TED talk transcript task stores the whole transcript in a single text field and the timed segments separately. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read the text field through the Apify API.
The TED talk transcript task is billed per transcript saved, plus a tiny start fee per run. One video means one transcript; maxItems caps a run with many links. See the Actor's Pricing tab for rates.
The TED talk transcript task flags each transcript as auto-generated or not. This talk uses human-made captions, which are usually more accurate for quotes and notes.