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Youtube Scraper

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A powerful Apify Actor that scrapes YouTube videos from channels, playlists, or search results without using the official YouTube API. Built with Python and the scrapetube library.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

0.0

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Developer

Ayush Goyal

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

4 months ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Lead generation

Videos

You can access the Youtube Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "channelId": "",
12    "channelUrl": "",
13    "channelUsername": "",
14    "playlistId": "",
15    "searchQuery": "",
16    "maxVideos": 100,
17    "sleepInterval": 1,
18    "proxyUrls": []
19};
20
21// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
22const run = await client.actor("ayuugoyal/youtube-scraper").call(input);
23
24// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
25console.log('Results from dataset');
26console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
27const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
28items.forEach((item) => {
29    console.dir(item);
30});
31
32// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Youtube Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Youtube Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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Youtube Scraper API through CLI

Youtube Scraper OpenAPI definition

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