Promote the Paid Apify Actors That Still Complete: YouTube Transcript Is the Lead Today

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Promote the Paid Apify Actors That Still Complete: YouTube Transcript Is the Lead Today

I pulled a fresh read-only Apify Store check on June 11 before promoting anything.

The portfolio is still moving:

69 public actors checked
67,218 total Store runs
2,662 total Store users
14,810 rolling 30-day runs
14,354 rolling 30-day successful runs
96.9% rolling 30-day success across the portfolio

Revenue is not where I want it, but the right move is not to promote every actor.

The right move is to promote the paid actors that are still completing reliably, and hold back the ones that need repair.

Today, the lead CTA is the YouTube Transcript Scraper.

Why YouTube Transcript is the lead today

The June 11 read shows:

4,080 total runs
352 total users
86 users in the last 30 days
1,089 rolling 30-day runs
98.9% rolling 30-day success
+466 runs and +54 users since the May 27 baseline

That is the kind of paid actor worth putting in front of buyers.

It has proven demand, strong completion, and a use case that maps directly to AI workflows.

Actor:

https://apify.com/george.the.developer/youtube-transcript-scraper

What it does

The actor extracts YouTube transcripts, subtitles, captions, timestamps, and metadata without needing the official YouTube API.

That makes it useful for:

RAG pipelines over videos
podcast and video summarization
creator research
SEO and content repurposing
training-data preparation
competitive research over channels and playlists

Instead of manually opening videos, copying captions, and cleaning text, you can send video URLs and get structured data back.

Quick start

Example input:

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "language": "en"
}

JavaScript client example:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('george.the.developer/youtube-transcript-scraper').call({
  videoUrls: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'],
  language: 'en',
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);

The local actor config is pay-per-event, with an actor-start event and a transcript-extracted event. That means the actor is structured for paid usage rather than just being a demo.

The rest of the reliable paid lane

YouTube is not the only actor worth promoting today.

The clean lane from the June 11 read:

Actor	Delta runs	Delta users	30d runs	30d success
AI Content Detector	1,727	2	2,107	99.9%
Email Validator API	1,032	2	1,923	100.0%
Telegram Channel Scraper	660	16	991	98.6%
YouTube Transcript Scraper	466	54	1,089	98.9%
Google News Monitor	96	9	223	100.0%
Bluesky Scraper	96	1	161	100.0%
AI Text Humanizer API	93	8	114	100.0%
Shopify DTC Brand Discovery	32	12	79	98.7%
HVAC Contractor Lead Finder	22	3	40	100.0%
Law Firm Lead Finder	21	3	35	100.0%

That gives me three clean promotion angles:

AI and content workflows: YouTube Transcript, AI Content Detector, AI Text Humanizer.
Monitoring workflows: Telegram Channel Scraper, Google News Monitor, Bluesky Scraper.
Buyer outcome workflows: Shopify DTC Brand Discovery, HVAC Lead Finder, Law Firm Lead Finder.

What I am holding back

Some actors still have demand, but I do not want them as the main public CTA today.

Actor	Reason
TikTok Shop Affiliate Sales Scraper	87.3% 30-day success
Influencer Marketing Intel	87.3% 30-day success
Lead Enrichment Pipeline	81.8% 30-day success
US Tariff Lookup	86.7% 30-day success
MedSpa Lead Discovery PPE	89.7% 30-day success