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Convert YouTube to MP3 Audio (No Video File)

Rip the audio off a YouTube talk, lecture or podcast and get a plain MP3 back, with no video file taking up space on your drive.

$0.005 per megabyte downloaded ($5 / 1,000)
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What this run is set to

The settings saved on this example. Every one of them is editable once you open it on Apify — these are a starting point, not a limit.

SettingValueWhat it does
YouTube URLshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPQjjsBbIcOne or more YouTube video links: watch, Shorts, youtu.be, live, embed or mobile links, or bare video ids.
Max qualityaudioVideo quality to download, measured on the short side of the picture - 720 means 1280x720 for landscape video and 720x1280.
Audio only (MP3)onExtract audio as MP3 instead of video.
Download subtitlesoffAlso fetch subtitles/auto-captions as SRT.
Include metadataonReturn title, channel, duration, views, etc.

Pricing

$0.005 per megabyte downloaded = $5 per 1,000

You are charged forWhenPrice
Megabyte downloadedEach 1 MB of media actually delivered. Failed or skipped downloads are not charged.$0.005

Pay-per-event pricing: you are billed per result, not per subscription. Billing is handled by Apify on your own account. These are the live Apify store prices, in effect since 2026-08-17, and they are what you are actually charged.

What you get

A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:

channeldurationSecondsfileSizeBytesformatmediaKeymediaUrlresolutiontitleuploadDateurlviewCount

Export every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.