Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

Youtube Search Scraper

Search YouTube with one or more queries via the official YouTube Data API and export structured results with optional video-level statistics and durations.

Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

Rating

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(0)

Developer

Akash Kumar Naik

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Monthly active users

2 days ago

Last modified

What This Actor Does

This Actor allows you to search YouTube programmatically and get structured results including video details, channel information, and statistics. Perfect for content researchers, marketers, and developers building YouTube data pipelines.

Features

Uses official YouTube Data API v3 for reliable, stable results
Supports videos, channels, and playlists
Optional video details (duration, view count, likes, comments)
Pagination support for large result sets
Automatic retries with exponential backoff
Respects user spending limits

Use Cases

Content research and trend analysis
Competitor channel monitoring
Video metadata collection for ML/AI pipelines
Building searchable video databases
YouTube analytics and reporting

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	Yes	-	YouTube search query
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	No	5	Results to fetch (1-500)
type	string	No	video	video, channel, or playlist
order	string	No	relevance	relevance, date, rating, title, videoCount, viewCount
videoDuration	string	No	any	any, short, medium, long (video only)
publishedAfter	string	No	-	ISO datetime filter
publishedBefore	string	No	-	ISO datetime filter
regionCode	string	No	-	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
relevanceLanguage	string	No	-	BCP-47 language code
safeSearch	string	No	moderate	moderate, none, strict
includeVideoDetails	boolean	No	true	Fetch duration and stats
maxConcurrency	integer	No	3	Parallel queries (1-10)

Example input:

{
    "searchQuery": "apify tutorial",
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
    "type": "video",
    "order": "relevance",
    "includeVideoDetails": true
}

Output

Each dataset item contains:

{
    "searchQuery": "apify tutorial",
    "position": 1,
    "resultKind": "video",
    "resultId": "3rrpfW0bEdc",
    "resultUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rrpfW0bEdc",
    "videoId": "3rrpfW0bEdc",
    "channelId": "UCqD-h6ucBDUntfoapPyhp0Q",
    "title": "Apify Tutorial For Beginners | How To Use Apify",
    "description": "Apify review: https://speakaboutdigital.com/apify-review/",
    "publishedAt": "2023-07-31T08:11:38Z",
    "channelTitle": "Speak About Digital",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3rrpfW0bEdc/hqdefault.jpg",
    "duration": "PT10M41S",
    "durationSeconds": 641,
    "viewCount": 30007,
    "likeCount": 338,
    "commentCount": 13,
    "embeddable": true,
    "license": "youtube",
    "privacyStatus": "public"
}

Pricing

Actor start: $0.00005 (synthetic event)
Search result: $0.01 per result

The Actor respects user-configured spending limits automatically.

Known Limitations

YouTube Data API has quota limits - keep maxResultsPerQuery reasonable
Some videos may not have like/comment counts available
Private videos are not accessible

Support

For issues or questions, visit the Apify Community or report bugs via Apify Console.

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