YouTube Data Scraper – Videos, Channels & Comments

Extract YouTube videos, channels, playlists and comments — views, likes, comments, duration, tags, subscribers — plus computed metrics YouTube doesn't show: engagement rate, views per day, likes per 1,000 views and performance versus the channel average.

▶️ No API key, no Google account

Click Try for free, type a search or paste a channel, and run. Nothing to create, nothing to configure.

✨ What makes it different

	This Actor
Setup	None — no API key, no quota, no Google Cloud project
Computed metrics	Engagement rate, views/day, likes per 1,000 views, performance vs channel average, Shorts detection
Channel insight	Average views over the channel's 30 latest videos — a fairer benchmark than lifetime totals
Filters	Views, likes, age, publish date, Shorts/long/live, title keywords, excluded words
Resilience	Rotating Apify Proxy, automatic retries, clear message if YouTube refuses a request

🚀 Inputs

• Search queries — like typing in YouTube's search bar; sort by relevance, date or view count
• Channels — https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl, @LofiGirl or UC… → channel profile + latest videos
• Videos — watch URLs, Shorts, youtu.be, live links
• Playlists — …?list=PL…
• Comments — optional, top comments per video
• Filters, region, language, proxy and speed settings

📦 Output example (video)

{
    "type": "video",
    "videoId": "HV6OlMPn5sI",
    "title": "Raimu - The Spirit Within 🍃",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6OlMPn5sI",
    "publishedAt": "2026-07-11T10:00:00+00:00",
    "videoAgeDays": 67,
    "duration": "29:54",
    "isShort": false,
    "viewCount": 410458,
    "likeCount": 12043,
    "commentCount": 318,
    "viewsPerDay": 6126,
    "engagementRate": 3.012,
    "likesPerThousandViews": 29.3,
    "performanceVsChannel": 1.42,
    "tags": ["lofi", "chill"],
    "hashtags": ["#lofi"],
    "category": "Music",
    "channelTitle": "Lofi Girl",
    "channelHandle": "@LofiGirl",
    "channelSubscribers": 15700000,
    "channelAverageViews": 289000,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HV6OlMPn5sI/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "source": "recherche : lofi hip hop"
}

Channels come out as type: "channel" (subscribers, average views of recent videos, views per subscriber, keywords) and comments as type: "comment" (text, author, likes, date, pinned).

💡 Tips

• Faster runs: raise Videos read in parallel (up to 10).
• Some videos refused? YouTube sometimes challenges shared IPs. Pick the RESIDENTIAL proxy group in Proxy.
• Only channel profiles: set Maximum videos per source to 0.

⚖️ Legal

This Actor only reads public data that anyone can see on YouTube without logging in. It never logs in, never downloads video files, and collects no private data. Automated access may conflict with YouTube's Terms of Service; you are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with GDPR and other laws when handling comment author names.

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🇫🇷 En français

Extrait les vidéos, chaînes, playlists et commentaires YouTube, sans clé API ni compte Google : lancez, c'est tout. En plus des données brutes, l'Actor calcule le taux d'engagement, les vues par jour, les likes pour 1 000 vues et la performance face à la moyenne des 30 dernières vidéos de la chaîne, et détecte les Shorts. Filtres : vues, likes, ancienneté, date, type de vidéo, mots-clés du titre.