TED Talks Scraper

Extract TED talks by topic, speaker or URL with speaker occupation, view counts, topics, transcripts and subtitle availability in 100+ languages

24 fields per talk

Global coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Updated 2026-07-26

What you get

Each record is one TED talk with its speakers, audience metrics and full transcript, ready for research, content curation or building a talks dataset.

• imageUrl: wide thumbnail image of the talk
• title: talk title
• url: canonical TED talk URL
• id: TED numeric talk id
• slug: talk URL slug
• type*: talk kind, for example TED Talk or TEDx Talk
• speaker: primary speaker display name
• speakers*: every speaker with name, occupation and short bio
• description*: talk summary
• event*: event or conference where it was recorded, for example TED2022 or TEDxUSC
• durationSeconds*: talk length in seconds
• durationText*: talk length as minutes and seconds
• viewCount*: total views on TED
• recordedDate*: date the talk was recorded
• publishedDate*: date the talk was published on TED
• topics*: tags and topics assigned to the talk
• primaryLanguage*: original spoken language code
• languageCount*: number of subtitle languages available
• languages*: list of subtitle languages available
• transcriptAvailable*: whether a transcript is available
• transcript*: full transcript text of the talk
• youtubeId*: YouTube video id when the talk is mirrored there
• externalUrl*: YouTube watch URL when available
• observedAt: when this talk was last seen by the scraper

*These fields only appear when withDetails is set to true.

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Build a searchable dataset of talks by topic	Researchers and data teams
Analyze speaker occupations and themes over time	Analysts and journalists
Curate talk playlists for courses or newsletters	Educators and content curators
Mine transcripts for quotes, NLP or captioning	AI and language teams
Track view counts and reach of specific speakers	PR and speaker bureaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Which TED talks does this cover? It covers talks available on ted.com, including main stage TED, TEDx, TED-Ed and partner talks. Search by any topic or speaker name, or pass exact talk URLs to scrape specific talks.

How many talks can I collect in one run? Set Max Talks to any number. Search results are paginated automatically until your cap is reached or the results run out, so you can pull a handful or thousands of talks.

Can I search by speaker instead of topic? Yes. Put a speaker name in the search term, for example Brene Brown or Simon Sinek, and the scraper returns that speaker's talks. You can also mix topics and keywords.

Does it return the transcript and subtitle languages? Yes, when Fetch Full Talk Details is on. Each talk includes whether a transcript exists, the full transcript text, the original language and the list of subtitle languages, which often exceeds 100 for popular talks.

What happens if a talk page cannot be read? That talk is written to the dataset with an error field and its source URL, and the run continues. Successful talks are never blocked by a single failure.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with TED. It only accesses data that is publicly available on the platform. Use it in accordance with TED's terms of service.