Youtube Video, Channel, Transcript
by scrappy-scraper
The most efficient YouTube parser in terms of cost and performance
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About Youtube Video, Channel, Transcript
The most efficient YouTube parser in terms of cost and performance
What does this actor do?
Youtube Video, Channel, Transcript is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.
Key Features
- Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
- Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
- API access for integration with your applications
- Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
- Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation
How to Use
- Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
- Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
- Configure the input parameters as needed
- Run the actor and download your results
Documentation
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 typescript { "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: markdown // 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
Categories
Common Use Cases
Market Research
Gather competitive intelligence and market data
Lead Generation
Extract contact information for sales outreach
Price Monitoring
Track competitor pricing and product changes
Content Aggregation
Collect and organize content from multiple sources
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- Developer
- scrappy-scraper
- Pricing
- Paid
- Total Runs
- 202
- Active Users
- 24
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