Youtube Video, Channel, Transcript

About this Actor

Supports urls for both Videos and Channels

Video data include transcript and video+audio urls.

Supports auto-saving results to your S3-compatible storage

The core parser code is available on GitHub and is free of any licensing restrictions.

Input Data

{
    "urls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    ],
    "proxyUrls": [
        "http://my_user_name:my_password@proxy.provider.io:port"
    ],
    "channelConcurrency": 20,
    "videoConcurrency": 20,
    "transcriptLanguages": [ "en" ],
    "numTranscriptLanguages": 3,

    // S3 params (optional)
    "s3AccessKey": "", "s3SecretKey": "", "s3Bucket": "", "s3Region": "", "s3RootPath": ""
}

Fields

name	type	required	description
urls	string[]	yes	YouTube urls. Can be Video or Channel
proxyUrls	string[]	no	Custom proxyUrls. If not provided, the actor will use Apify's proxy
videoConcurrency	number	no	Max number of videos to parse at the same time
channelConcurrency	number	no	Max number of channels to parse at the same time
transcriptLanguages	string[]	no	A list of language codes of preferred language
numTranscriptLanguages	number	no	Default: 3. Number of transcript languages to fetch

S3 Fields

This actor can save the results to your S3-compatible storage. If you want to enable this feature, fill out the params below; if not, just leave all of them empty.

For security, please limit the access key so that it can only access the necessary S3 buckets; the access key should not have access to any other services.

name	type	needed?	description
s3AccessKey	string	yes	S3 Access Key Id
s3SecretKey	string	yes	S3 Secret Key
s3Bucket	string	yes	Bucket name
s3Region	string	yes	e.g: "us-east-1", "us-west-2"
s3Endpoint	string	AWS=no; others=yes	The endpoint url. If you use AWS's S3, leave it empty
s3ForcePathStyle	boolean	no	If you use Min.io S3, you might need to set this to true. If not, just leave it empty or set to false
s3RootPath	string	no	The basepath inside the bucket to store your data.

proxyUrls

The format should be http://username:password@host:port

Variable session is supported by replacing session id with :sessionId.

For example:

// Provided by Proxy provider:
http://my_user_name_sid-asdfasdf:my_password@proxy.provider.io:port
http://my_user_name_sid-qwerqwer:my_password@proxy.provider.io:port
http://my_user_name_sid-zxcvzxcv:my_password@proxy.provider.io:port

// What you put in:
http://my_user_name_sid-:sessionId:my_password@proxy.provider.io:port

Output Data

Video

id, title, description, thumbnail,

viewCount, length(in seconds),

transcripts

Channel

id, title(channel name),

description, thumbnail,

videos