Youtube Video Details+Transcript -Fast

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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
}
]