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.

Scrape YouTube search results using a search term, or directly input a video, channel, or results page URL. Feel free to try it out with our default settings by hitting &#9655; Start. If you need any help, have a read through <a href='https://blog.apify.com/how-to-scrape-youtube/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>this tutorial</a>.

Any data that you want to have available inside the Extend Output/Scraper Function.

Custom data

If set to true, the scraper will download subtitles for the video and convert them to .srt format.

Download subtitles

Add or remove properties on the output object or omit the output returning null

You can change the output of the items for your dataset here, or add additional behavior.

Extend Output Function

Advanced function that allows you to extend the default scraper functionality, allowing you to manually perform actions on the page.

Extend Scraper Function

Handle page timeout

Limit the number of comments you want to scrape per video. Input 0 or leave the field empty to not scrape any comments.

Maximum comments

Limit the number of videos you want to crawl. Leave the field empty for unlimited results.

Maximum search results

Limit the number of Shorts videos you want to crawl from the channel. Leave the field empty for unlimited results.

Maximum shorts

If set to true, automatically generated subtitles are preferred to user subtitles.Note: A subtitle language must be selected for this option to work.

Prefer automatically generated subtitles.

Proxy configuration

If true, actor will save short ('Shorts' tab) videos from the channel.

Save Shorts

If set to true, the scraper will save the downloaded subtitles to the key-value store. Note: Download subtitles must be turned on for this option to work.

Save subtitles to key-value store

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

Search term

If set to true, the scraper will only extract information available on the channel page itself - information on individual videos will therefore be limited to their preview. Note: Only relevant when providing a channel URL in the Direct URL field.

Only scrape basic information from a channel

Enter a link to a <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xObhZ0Ga7EQ' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>YouTube video</a>, <a href='https://www.youtube.com/c/Apify' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>channel</a>, or <a href='https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=crawlee' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>search results page</a>. 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.

Direct URLs

Language to download subtitles in. Note: Download subtitles must be turned on for this option to work.

Subtitle language

Verbose log

Input schema for the youtube-search-scraper actor

youtube-scraper

YouTube crawler and video scraper. Scrape channels for likes, views, and subscribers. Scrape by keyword or URL without official API. Also scrapes subtitles!

YouTube Scraper

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