# Slack alerts for new TED talks

**Use case:** 

Get a Slack card every time a watched TED topic or speaker publishes a new talk, with transcript link.

## Input

```json
{
  "talkUrls": [
    "https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready"
  ],
  "pageUrl": "https://www.ted.com/topics/ai",
  "language": "en",
  "transcriptFormats": [
    "txt"
  ],
  "includeTakeaways": true,
  "maxTalks": 0,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "alertOnNewTalk": true,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "requestConcurrency": 5,
  "diagnose": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Talk",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "speaker": {
    "label": "Speaker",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "views": {
    "label": "Views",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "duration_sec": {
    "label": "Sec",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "segment_count": {
    "label": "Segments",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "transcript": {
    "label": "Transcript",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [TED Talk Transcript Scraper — TXT, SRT & VTT (No Login)](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/ted-transcript-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/ted-transcript-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.