rowfeed/youtube-transcript-api
rowfeed--youtube-transcript-apiThis tool calls the Actor "rowfeed/youtube-transcript-api" and retrieves its output results. Actor description: YouTube transcript extractor: the full transcript of any YouTube video (also Shorts and lives) as clean text plus timed segments, with title, language, duration and word count. Bulk up to 1,000 videos. $4 per 1,000 transcripts. Licensed data, no blocked runs.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| videos | No | Video links (watch, youtu.be, Shorts, live, embed) or 11-character video ids. Up to 1,000 per run. Example values: ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPQjjsBbIc"] | |
| waitSecs | No | Max seconds (0–45, default 30) to cap the wait for the Actor run to reach terminal state. For long-running Actors the response returns at the cap with the current run status; follow `nextStep` to poll via get-actor-run. Set to 0 to fire-and-forget. | |
| includeTimestamps | No | Also return every caption line with its start and end time (seconds). Off = full text only. Example values: true |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| tip | No | Advisory guidance RAG Web Browser wrote to its key-value store under the reserved "TIP" key | |
| runId | Yes | Actor run ID | |
| stats | No | Run statistics | |
| status | Yes | Run status: READY | RUNNING | TIMING-OUT | TIMED-OUT | ABORTING | ABORTED | SUCCEEDED | FAILED | |
| actorId | Yes | Stable Apify Actor ID from the run record | |
| summary | Yes | Past-tense summary of the run state | |
| exitCode | No | Actor process exit code; populated for terminal states (especially FAILED) | |
| nextStep | Yes | One primary follow-up action with identifiers interpolated | |
| storages | Yes | Dataset and key-value store metadata, keyed by alias. "default" is always the primary entry. | |
| actorName | No | "username/actor-name" | |
| startedAt | No | ISO timestamp when the run started | |
| finishedAt | No | ISO timestamp when the run finished (terminal states only) | |
| statusMessage | No | Pass-through from Apify run.statusMessage | |
| apifyConsoleUrl | No | Personalized Apify Console link to the run; present only for Console sessions |