YouTube & Podcast Transcripts with AI Summary

Get the full transcript of any YouTube video, Apple Podcasts episode or Spotify episode, with timestamps, plus an AI summary, key points and chapters. When a video has no captions, the audio is transcribed instead, so you still get a transcript.

Built on Blumify, a transcript service for videos and podcasts.

What you get for each link

• Transcript as plain text, and as timestamped segments (start, end, text).
• AI summary of the whole recording.
• Key points, as a list.
• Chapters with start times, so you can jump to each part.
• Subtitles as SRT or WebVTT (optional).
• Details: title, creator, platform, length, language, and whether the text came from captions or from audio.

Which links work

Link	Example
YouTube video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo or https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo
Apple Podcasts episode	https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…?i=1000…
Spotify episode	https://open.spotify.com/episode/…

Whole channels and playlists are not supported here. Add the video links you want.

Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo"
  ],
  "includeSegments": true,
  "subtitles": "none"
}

Output

One dataset item for each link:

{
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo",
  "status": "ok",
  "title": "Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams",
  "creator": "Carnegie Mellon University",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "durationSeconds": 4608.3,
  "language": "en",
  "source": "captions",
  "summary": "Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor with terminal pancreatic cancer, delivers his famous \"Last Lecture\" about achieving his childhood dreams…",
  "keyPoints": [
    "He argues that brick walls exist to stop the people who don't want something badly enough, and they give us a chance to show our dedication.",
    "…"
  ],
  "chapters": [
    { "start": 0, "title": "Introduction and the elephant in the room" },
    { "start": 180, "title": "Childhood dreams list" },
    "…"
  ],
  "text": ">> Make me earn it.\nIt's wonderful to be here.\n…",
  "segments": [{ "start": 17.36, "end": 20.08, "text": ">> Make me earn it." }, "…"],
  "wordCount": 12630
}

A link that cannot be transcribed gives "status": "failed" with an error message, and you are not charged for it.

Pricing

You pay only for transcripts that succeed:

What	Price
A video with captions (transcript, summary, key points, chapters)	US$0.02 per video
Podcast audio (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)	US$0.002 per minute
Other audio (a YouTube video without captions)	US$0.007 per minute

For example, 100 YouTube videos with captions cost US$2.00. A 60-minute podcast episode costs US$0.12.

Set a maximum cost for the run in Apify, and the actor stops when it reaches it.

Good to know

• Speed: a video with captions usually takes under a minute. Audio takes about a minute for every 15 minutes of recording.
• Length: audio of up to 4 hours a link.
• Languages: captions come in the video's own language. Audio is transcribed in its spoken language.
• Privacy: results are not published. Blumify keeps them in a private workspace for its records.

Want more?

On blumify.io you can also ask questions about a recording (answers cite the moment), translate the notes, add speaker labels, transcribe whole playlists, and follow creators to get their new episodes. There is also an API and an MCP server for AI apps.

Support

Email gaurav@blumify.io or use the Issues tab of this actor.