YouTube Video Scraper

Scrape videos from any YouTube channel and get titles, views, durations, thumbnails, publish dates, and per-video insights. Works on any channel URL format and returns clean JSON in seconds.

You are only charged for videos that come back with real data. Failed requests and empty results are free.

What does YouTube Video Scraper do?

YouTube Video Scraper pulls video data directly from any YouTube channel and turns it into a clean, structured dataset ready to use.

It can extract:

• Video titles and URLs
• View counts (raw string and normalized integer)
• Video durations (string, milliseconds, and seconds)
• Thumbnail URLs
• Publish dates
• Per-video insights: views per day, views per second, watch hours, and duration category

Why Scrape YouTube Videos?

A channel's video list tells you more than just what was posted. Views, duration, and publish date together reveal what content actually performs, how often a channel publishes, and which formats drive the most watch time.

Here are some ways you could use this data:

• Track competitor channels and monitor new uploads over time
• Identify which video lengths and topics get the most views in a niche
• Build datasets for content research, trend analysis, or machine learning
• Feed video metadata into dashboards, spreadsheets, or automation tools
• Analyze upload frequency and publishing patterns across channels

How to Use

Scraping a YouTube channel takes about 10 seconds. No setup needed beyond the channel URL.

1. Click Try for free
2. Enter the YouTube channel URL, for example: https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd
3. Pick how many videos to fetch: 10, 20, 50, 100, 300, 500, or 1,000
4. Click Run
5. When done, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab

To continue from where a previous run stopped, paste the nextCursor value from the last output into the cursor field.

Input

{
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "maxVideos": "100"
}

To resume from a previous run:

{
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "maxVideos": "100",
  "cursor": "4qmFsgLdCBIYVUNCSnljc21kdXZZRUw4M1JfVTRK..."
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
channelUrl	string	none	YouTube channel URL (required). Supports /@handle, /channel/ID, /c/name, /user/name
maxVideos	string	"20"	How many videos to scrape. Options: 10, 20, 50, 100, 300, 500, 1000
cursor	string	none	Value from a previous run's pagination.nextCursor. Leave empty to start from the top.

Output

Each video is saved as one item in the Dataset. The run summary goes to the Key-Value Store under OUTPUT. Pagination info is saved separately under PAGINATION.

Video item

{
  "videoId": "QrT4S9i3agE",
  "title": "Top 5 Android 17 Features: I Swear It's New!",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrT4S9i3agE",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-24",
  "publishedAtRaw": "18 hours ago",
  "duration": "9:24",
  "durationMs": 564000,
  "durationSeconds": 564,
  "views": 781000,
  "viewsRaw": "781K views",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QrT4S9i3agE/hqdefault.jpg",
  "insight": {
    "ageInDays": 1,
    "viewsPerDay": 781000,
    "viewsPerSecond": 1384.75,
    "estimatedWatchHours": 121805.56,
    "durationCategory": "5-15 min"
  }
}

Run summary

{
  "summary": {
    "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
    "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
    "successCount": 100,
    "failedCount": 0,
    "successRate": "100%",
    "totalCharged": 0.5,
    "startedAt": "2026-06-25T10:00:00.000Z",
    "finishedAt": "2026-06-25T10:00:05.000Z",
    "totalDurationSeconds": 5
  }
}

Output Fields

Video data

Field	Description
videoId	YouTube video ID
title	Video title
videoUrl	Direct link to the video
publishedAt	Publish date in YYYY-MM-DD format
publishedAtRaw	Raw publish string from YouTube (e.g. "3 days ago")
duration	Duration in MM:SS or HH:MM:SS
durationMs	Duration in milliseconds
durationSeconds	Duration in seconds
views	View count as an integer (781000, not "781K")
viewsRaw	Raw view string from YouTube (e.g. "781K views")
thumbnailUrl	Thumbnail URL

Insight (nested inside each video item)

Field	Description
ageInDays	How many days since the video was published
viewsPerDay	Average views per day since publish date
viewsPerSecond	Views per second of video content
estimatedWatchHours	Total estimated watch hours (views x duration / 3600)
durationCategory	< 1 min, 1-5 min, 5-15 min, 15-30 min, or 30+ min

Pagination (separate dataset)

Field	Description
currentPage	Page number of this run, starting at 1
pageSize	Number of videos requested
totalPages	Estimated total pages based on channel video count
hasNextPage	true if more videos are available
nextCursor	Pass this as cursor on the next run to get the following page

Pricing

Pay per successfully scraped video. Failed requests are free.

Videos	Cost	Est. time
10	$0.05	~2s
100	$0.50	~5s
300	$1.50	~15s
500	$2.50	~20s
1,000	$5.00	~40s

$0.005 per video.

For runs over 500 videos, set No timeout in Run options.

Notes

• All channel URL formats work: /@handle, /channel/ID, /c/name, /user/name
• View counts are integers, not strings. 781000 instead of "781K", ready to sort and filter without extra parsing.
• Duration comes in three formats: raw string ("9:24"), milliseconds, and seconds.
• Pagination is cursor-based. Pass nextCursor back as cursor on the next run. No duplicates or gaps between runs.

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