Youtube Video Details+Transcript -Fast

The youtube-video-details-transcript--fast actor is an Apify API that takes one or more YouTube video URLs (with optional per-video language), fetches video metadata and transcript, and returns a single clean JSON output per video with details, transcript text, and error status.

What does the Youtube Video Details+Transcript -Fast actor do?

The youtube-video-details-transcript--fast actor enables you to quickly fetch video metadata and transcripts without scraping personal data without permission.

• Combine the actor's output with other tools and services to build more advanced applications.

Live Actor

Apify Console:

• https://console.apify.com/actors/aGbpXkrCjYlfN56ws

Input

Provide an array named videoUrls.

Each item should be an object:

• url (required): YouTube video URL
• language (optional): transcript language code, defaults to en

Example input:

{
  "videoUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2xF3JYOIwY"
    }
  ]
}

Output

Returns one item per input video.

Common fields:

• videoUrl
• language
• Metadata fields from the details Actor (for example title, channel, views, duration, description)
• transcript (plain transcript text)
• transcriptRaw (full raw object from transcript Actor)
• transcriptError (null when successful, otherwise error text)

Example output shape:

[
  {
    "videoUrl": "...",
    "language": "en",
    "channel": "...",
    "channel_url": "...",
    "upload_date": "...",
    "url": "...",
    "title": "...",
    "duration": null,
    "views": 0,
    "likes": 0,
    "comment_count": 0,
    "description": "...",
    "status": "success",
    "transcript": "...",
    "transcriptRaw": {
      "success": true,
      "video_id": "...",
      "video_url": "...",
      "video_title": "...",
      "transcript": "...",
      "language": "en",
      "extraction_time": 0.0,
      "timestamp": "..."
    },
    "transcriptError": null
  }
]