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YouTube Scraper

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YouTube crawler and video scraper. Alternative YouTube API with no limits or quotas. Extract and download channel name, likes, number of views, and number of subscribers.

Pricing

from $2.40 / 1,000 videos

Rating

4.1

(198)

Developer

Streamers

Actor stats

2.1K

Bookmarked

209K

Total users

18K

Monthly active users

3.3 days

Issues response

2 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

Features

Search terms

searchQueries

Optional

Enter search terms just like you would enter it in YouTube's search bar.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "web scraping tutorials"
]

Maximum videos per search term

maxResults

Optional

Limit the number of videos you want to crawl. If you scrape a channel, acts as a limit for regular videos.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:999999

Default:0

Example:

Maximum shorts per search term

maxResultsShorts

Optional

Limit the number of Shorts videos you want to crawl.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:999999

Default:0

Example:

Maximum streams per search term

maxResultStreams

Optional

Limit the number of Stream videos you want to crawl.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:999999

Default:0

Example:

Direct URLs

startUrls

Optional

Enter a link to a YouTube video, channel, playlist or search results page. You can also import a CSV file or Google Sheet with a list of URLs.
Note: Input from Search term will be ignored when using this option. If you only want to scrape shorts/streams, set Maximum search results to 0, otherwise they represented number of regular videos requested

Type:array

Default:

[]

Example:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  }
]

Transcription & subtitles

transcriptionAndSubtitle

Optional

Choose whether to download subtitles, transcribe the video using speech-to-text AI, or both. Leave empty to skip subtitles and transcription. Subtitles are added to the dataset items, while transcripts are stored in the key-value store

Type:string | null

Default:NONE

Options:

NONEALWAYS_SUBTITLESTRANSCRIPTION_AS_FALLBACKALWAYS_TRANSCRIBE

Subtitle language

subtitlesLanguage

Optional

Language to download subtitles in.
Note: a subtitle-downloading option must be selected in Transcription & subtitles for this to work.

Type:string

Default:en

Example:

Options:

anyendeesfritjakonlptru

Subtitle format

subtitlesFormat

Optional

Select in what format you want to download subtitles

Type:string

Default:srt

Example:

srt

Options:

srtvttxmlplaintext

Sorting order

sortingOrder

Optional

Select Youtube sorting parameter for search

Type:string | null

Example:

relevance

Options:

relevanceratingdateviews

Date filter

dateFilter

Optional

Select Youtube upload date filter for search

Type:string | null

Example:

month

Options:

hourtodayweekmonthyear

Video type filter

videoType

Optional

Select Youtube video type filter for search

Type:string | null

Example:

video

Options:

videomovie

Length filter

lengthFilter

Optional

Select Youtube video length filter for search

Type:string | null

Example:

between420

Options:

under4between420plus20

isHD

Optional

Will apply the HD filter for search

Type:boolean | null

Subtitles/CC

hasSubtitles

Optional

Will apply the Subtitles/CC filter for search

Type:boolean | null

Creative Commons

hasCC

Optional

Will apply the Creative Commons filter for search

Type:boolean | null

is3D

Optional

Will apply the 3D filter for search

Type:boolean | null

Live

isLive

Optional

Will apply the Live filter for search

Type:boolean | null

Purchased

isBought

Optional

Will apply the Purchased filter for search

Type:boolean | null

is4K

Optional

Will apply the 4K filter for search

Type:boolean | null

360 degrees

is360

Optional

Will apply the 360 degrees filter for search

Type:boolean | null

Location

hasLocation

Optional

Will apply the Location filter for search

Type:boolean | null

HDR

isHDR

Optional

Will apply the HDR filter for search

Type:boolean | null

VR180

isVR180

Optional

Will apply the VR180 filter for search

Type:boolean | null

Scrape videos published after [date]

oldestPostDate

Optional

Only posts uploaded after or on this date will be scraped. Alternatively, specify how old the scraped videos should be in days. Putting 1 day will get you only today's posts, 2 days - yesterday's and today's, and so on. Note, that if you select this, sorting parameter will be auto-reset to NEWEST

Type:string

Example:

2024-01-01

Sort by

sortVideosBy

Optional

Maps to the sorting buttons on the top of the channel's 'Videos', 'Shorts' and 'Live' pages.

Type:string

Example:

NEWEST

Options:

NEWESTPOPULAROLDEST

Add-on: AI video description ($)

aiVideoDescription

Optional

If enabled, uses AI to generate a time-segmented description of the video, covering both visual and audio content for each segment.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Example:

false

Add-on: AI video summary ($)

aiVideoSummary

Optional

If enabled, uses AI to generate a concise conceptual summary of the video covering both visual and audio content.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Example:

false

Save subtitles to key-value store

saveSubsToKVS

Optional

If set to true, the scraper will save the downloaded subtitles to the key-value store. Transcripts are always saved to the key-value store

Type:boolean

Example:

false

Prefer automatically generated subtitles.

preferAutoGeneratedSubtitles

Optional

If set to true, automatically generated subtitles are preferred to user subtitles. Note: a subtitle language must be selected and a subtitle-downloading option must be selected in Transcription & subtitles for this to work.

Type:boolean

Example:

false

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