YouTube Video to SEO Blog Post & Show Notes API docs

The YouTube Video to SEO Blog Post & Show Notes Actor turns any public YouTube video into a publish-ready content package: an SEO title, meta description, Markdown article, show-notes summaries, chapters, FAQs, pull quotes, and keywords. Paste watch URLs (or Shorts / youtu.be links) and get structured JSON ready for your CMS, newsletter, or content pipeline.

Key Features

SEO blog post output — title, meta description, slug, and full Markdown body grounded in the video
Show notes ready — short and long summaries plus key takeaways
Chapters & FAQs — outline and question/answer pairs for search and on-page SEO
Pull quotes — memorable lines with timestamps when available
Captions-first — uses YouTube captions when present; falls back to audio understanding when needed
Optional audience & tone — steer the writing voice without rewriting prompts yourself
No login required — works with public YouTube videos

Why Turn YouTube Videos into Articles?

YouTube is where expertise, demos, and interviews live — but search, LinkedIn, and blogs still need text. Manually watching a video and rewriting it is slow. This Actor automates the repurposing step so you can:

Publish SEO pages that rank for topics covered in your (or competitors’) videos
Ship show notes for podcasts and long-form YouTube without a separate writing pass
Feed CMS and newsletters with structured Markdown and metadata via the Apify API
Scale content ops across many videos with schedules and webhooks

Who Is It For?

Content marketers and SEO teams repurposing webinars, product demos, and thought leadership
Agencies delivering article packs from client YouTube channels
Creators and newsletter writers who want consistent show notes after every upload
Developers wiring YouTube → CMS automation on the Apify platform

How to Use

Open the Actor in Apify Console
Paste one or more YouTube video URLs
Optionally set target audience and tone
Click Start
Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull it via the Apify API

Input

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPQjjsBbIc"],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "targetAudience": "Content marketers",
  "tone": "Clear and practical",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
`videoUrls`	string[]	—	Required. Public YouTube watch, Shorts, youtu.be, or embed URLs
`maxItems`	integer	`5`	Max videos to process in one run
`targetAudience`	string	—	Optional audience hint for writing voice
`tone`	string	—	Optional tone (e.g. professional, conversational)
`proxyConfiguration`	object	residential	Apify Proxy recommended for cloud YouTube fetches

Output

Each dataset item is one video’s full article package:

{
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPQjjsBbIc",
  "videoId": "8jPQjjsBbIc",
  "title": "Me at the zoo",
  "channel": "jawed",
  "durationSeconds": 19,
  "publishedAt": "2005-04-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "transcriptSource": "captions",
  "article": {
    "seoTitle": "Me at the Zoo: The First YouTube Video Explained",
    "metaDescription": "A short look at the first video ever uploaded to YouTube and why it still matters.",
    "slug": "me-at-the-zoo-first-youtube-video",
    "bodyMarkdown": "## Introduction\n\n...",
    "wordCount": 420
  },
  "summaryShort": "…",
  "summaryLong": "…",
  "keyPoints": ["…"],
  "chapters": [{ "start": "00:00", "title": "Opening", "summary": "…" }],
  "pullQuotes": [{ "text": "…", "timestamp": "00:05" }],
  "faq": [{ "question": "…", "answer": "…" }],
  "keywords": ["youtube first video", "me at the zoo"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-22T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Usage-based pay-per-event:

Event	When	Price
`article-generated`	Once per successful article	$0.01
`article-minute`	Per minute of video length (rounded up, min 1)	$0.0035
Actor start	Per run (× memory GB)	$0.0025

Examples (excluding start fee): ~10 min video ≈ $0.045; ~30 min ≈ $0.115. Failed videos are not charged for article events. At 4096 MB memory, actor start is 4× ($0.01).

Tips

Prefer videos with captions for faster, cheaper runs
Start with maxItems of 1–3 while testing tone and audience settings
Schedule the Actor against a list of new uploads for ongoing show-notes automation

Image Credit

Image credit: YouTube