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🎬 YouTube Transcript & Metadata Extractor

Extract YouTube transcripts, subtitles, and complete video metadata in seconds - no manual work, no copy-paste, just pure automated data extraction.

👁 🧾 YouTube Extractor (Transcripts + Metadata)

Extract transcripts from any YouTube video in 3 clicks

Paste URL → Click Start → Download data. That's it.

Why 1,000+ marketers, researchers, and developers choose this tool

How It Works

Step 1: Paste Your URLs

{
"youtubeUrl":[
{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"}
]
}

Step 2: Configure (Optional)

• Clean transcript: Remove "um", "uh", filler words
• Include timestamps: Get second-by-second text timing
• Extract comments: Pull top comments with replies (NEW!)

Step 3: Get Your Data

{
"videoId":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"Video_title":"Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
"Views":"1,234,567,890 views",
"transcriptText":"We're no strangers to love...",
"channel":{
"name":"Rick Astley",
"subscribers":"3.2M subscribers"
}
}

What You Can Do With This Data

📝 Content Creators & Marketers

• Repurpose videos into blogs - Extract transcript, feed to AI, generate 5 articles
• Create social media posts - Pull key quotes and timestamps
• Generate SEO-optimized content - Turn video content into searchable text
• Subtitle generation - Export timestamps for perfect captions

Real example: Marketing agency extracts 100 competitor videos weekly, identifies trending topics, creates counter-content. Result: 40% traffic increase in 3 months.

🔬 Researchers & Academics

• Analyze lecture content at scale - Process entire course catalogs
• Study speaking patterns - Extract timestamps for linguistic analysis
• Sentiment analysis - Feed transcripts into NLP models
• Citation extraction - Find and verify sources mentioned in videos

Real example: PhD student analyzed 500 TED Talks in 2 days instead of 6 months, discovered key patterns in successful presentations.

🤖 Developers & AI Teams

• Train chatbots - Use video transcripts as training data
• Build recommendation engines - Analyze content similarity
• Automated workflows - Trigger actions based on new videos
• Knowledge base creation - Convert video libraries into searchable databases

Real example: SaaS company built AI support bot using 1,000 tutorial video transcripts. Result: 60% reduction in support tickets.

📊 Business Intelligence

• Competitor monitoring - Track what competitors are saying
• Brand sentiment tracking - Analyze mentions across video content
• Market research - Extract insights from industry thought leaders
• Product feedback analysis - Process customer testimonial videos

Real example: E-commerce brand analyzes 200 review videos monthly, identifies pain points, improves product design. Result: 25% reduction in returns.

Complete Feature List

Core Extraction

• ✅ Full video transcripts with cleaned text
• ✅ Precise second-by-second timestamps
• ✅ Video metadata (title, views, likes, date)
• ✅ Channel information (name, subscribers, verification)
• ✅ Thumbnail URLs (multiple resolutions)
• ✅ Video descriptions and tags
• ✅ Duration and word count analytics

Smart Processing

• ✅ 3 cleaning levels: None (raw), Mild (remove "um"/"uh"), Aggressive (conversational cleanup)
• ✅ Automatic deduplication: Never process the same video twice
• ✅ Batch processing: Handle 1 to 1000+ videos
• ✅ Error recovery: Auto-retry on temporary failures
• ✅ Multiple formats: All YouTube URL types (standard, shorts, live, youtu.be)

NEW: Comment Extraction

• ✅ Top comments with like counts
• ✅ Comment replies (configurable depth)
• ✅ Sort by "top" or "newest"
• ✅ Real-time streaming extraction
• ✅ Automatic resumption if interrupted

Export & Integration

• ✅ JSON, CSV, Excel download
• ✅ Direct API access
• ✅ Webhook integration
• ✅ Pre-configured data views
• ✅ Apify platform integration

Input Configuration

Basic Example (Just Transcripts)

{
"youtubeUrl":[
{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"}
],
"cleaningLevel":"mild",
"includeTimestamps":true
}

Advanced Example (With Comments)

{
"youtubeUrl":[
{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"}
],
"cleaningLevel":"aggressive",
"includeTimestamps":true,
"extractcomments":true,
"sortBy":"top",
"maxComments":50,
"maxRepliesPerComment":5
}

All Parameters

💡 Pro tip: Start with maxRepliesPerComment: 0 for 10x faster extraction if you don't need reply threads.

Output Structure

What You Get for Every Video

{
"videoId":"1TThGG6guf0",
"VideoURL":"https://youtu.be/1TThGG6guf0",
"Video_title":"WordPress Custom Widget Development Tutorial",
"published_Date":"Aug 12, 2020",
"Views":"5,067 views",
"likes":"122",
"channel":{
"name":"Codeytek Academy",
"id":"UC0SDxbLAqoKLACyEPz2wXAg",
"subscribers":"33.1K subscribers",
"verified":false
},
"thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1TThGG6guf0/maxresdefault.jpg",
"Description":"Learn how to create custom WordPress widgets...",
"hasTranscript":true,
"transcriptText":"Hello and welcome everyone to another episode of advanced WordPress theme development. Today we're going to learn how to create custom widgets...",
"timestamps":[
{"time":"0:08","text":"hello and welcome everyone to another"},
{"time":"0:10","text":"episode of advanced wordpress theme"},
{"time":"0:12","text":"development today we're going to learn"}
],
"wordCount":2847,
"estimatedDuration":"11:23"
}

With Comments Enabled

{
"videoId":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"Video_title":"Never Gonna Give You Up",
"transcriptText":"We're no strangers to love...",
"commentsExtracted":true,
"commentCount":50,
"comments":[
{
"commentId":"UgxQe-6VK3h-LZaul6x4AaABAg",
"authorName":"@musiclover2024",
"text":"Still the best song after all these years!",
"likeCount":"1,543",
"replyCount":12,
"publishedTime":"2 days ago",
"replies":[
{
"commentId":"UgxQe-6VK3h-LZaul6x4AaABAg.9kF7...",
"authorName":"@throwback90s",
"text":"Facts! Never gets old.",
"likeCount":"234",
"publishedTime":"1 day ago"
}
]
}
]
}

Pricing & Performance

Transcript Extraction

• Free mode: 5-10 seconds per video
• Paid mode: 3-5 seconds per video (faster infrastructure)
• Cost: ~$0.001-0.006 per video (depending on length)

Comment Extraction (Optional Add-on)

Uses YouTube Comments Scraper in Standby Mode.

Pricing:

• Actor start: $0.001 (once per run)
• Parent comments: $0.003 each
• Replies: $0.0015 each

Example cost for 50 comments + 100 replies:

• Start: $0.01
• Comments: 50 × $0.003 = $0.15
• Replies: 100 × $0.0015 = $0.15
• Total: $0.31

With Apify subscription discounts:

• Bronze: 50% off → $0.17 total
• Silver: 67% off → $0.13 total
• Gold: 73% off → $0.11 total

Speed impact:

• Without replies: +5-10 seconds per video
• With replies (10 per comment): +20-40 seconds per video

💡 Cost optimization tip: Set maxRepliesPerComment: 0 if you don't need reply threads - you'll get 10x faster extraction and cut costs in half.

Supported YouTube URL Formats

We handle ALL YouTube URL types:

✅ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
✅ https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
✅ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
✅ https://www.youtube.com/live/VIDEO_ID
✅ https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID (no www)
✅ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID (mobile)

Just paste any YouTube link - we'll figure it out.

Pre-Configured Data Views

Save time with our built-in export templates:

1. 📊 Full Dataset

Everything - Complete metadata, transcripts, timestamps, analytics
Use for: Comprehensive analysis, data warehousing

2. 📝 Transcripts Only

Focus: Transcript text, timestamps, word count, duration
Use for: Content repurposing, subtitle generation

3. 📺 Channel Analytics

Focus: Channel info, subscribers, verification, video list
Use for: Influencer research, competitor analysis

Quick Start Examples

Use Case 1: Content Repurposing

Goal: Turn video into blog post

// 1. Extract transcript
const input ={
youtubeUrl:[{url:"YOUR_VIDEO_URL"}],
cleaningLevel:"aggressive",
includeTimestamps:false
};
// 2. Run actor
// 3. Get output: feed transcriptText to ChatGPT/Claude
// 4. Generate 5 blog posts in 2 minutes

Use Case 2: Competitor Analysis

Goal: Analyze 100 competitor videos

const input ={
youtubeUrl:[
{url:"competitor_video_1"},
{url:"competitor_video_2"},
// ... paste 100 URLs
],
cleaningLevel:"mild",
extractcomments:true,
maxComments:20
};
// Export to Excel → Analyze trends → Find content gaps

Use Case 3: AI Training Data

Goal: Build chatbot training dataset

const input ={
youtubeUrl:YOUR_PLAYLIST_URLS,// from our Playlist Extractor
cleaningLevel:"none",// keep raw data for AI
includeTimestamps:true
};
// Process 1000 videos → Clean dataset → Train model

Integration Examples

JavaScript/Node.js

const ApifyClient =require('apify-client');
const client =newApifyClient({token:'YOUR_API_TOKEN'});
const input ={
youtubeUrl:[
{url:"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"}
],
cleaningLevel:"mild"
};
const run =await client.actor("dz_omar/youtube-transcript-metadata-extractor").call(input);
const{ items }=await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0].transcriptText);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_API_TOKEN')
run_input ={
"youtubeUrl":[
{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"}
],
"cleaningLevel":"mild"
}
run = client.actor("dz_omar/youtube-transcript-metadata-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item['transcriptText'])

cURL (Direct API)

curl-X POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dz_omar~youtube-transcript-metadata-extractor/runs \
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-H"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"\
-d'{
 "youtubeUrl": [
 { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" }
 ]
 }'

→ View full API documentation

Frequently Asked Questions

Technical Details

Comparison: Why Choose This Actor?

Trust & Reliability

Platform Performance

• ✅ Actor running smoothly - 100% success rate
• ✅ Regular updates - Maintained actively

Legal & Compliance

What You Should Know

✅ What's allowed:

• Extracting public transcripts for personal use
• Research and academic analysis
• Business intelligence and market research
• Content repurposing with proper attribution

⚠️ What requires caution:

• Large-scale commercial redistribution
• Republishing copyrighted video content
• Using data in ways that violate YouTube's ToS
• Scraping private or restricted content

🔒 Privacy & Data:

• We only extract publicly visible data
• No authentication or login required
• No data stored beyond your run duration
• GDPR compliant (EU users)

Disclaimer: This tool extracts publicly available data. Users are responsible for ensuring their usage complies with YouTube's Terms of Service, copyright laws, and applicable regulations. We are not lawyers - consult legal counsel for commercial use cases.

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