YouTube Scraper 🎬

Scrape YouTube videos, shorts, and live streams at scale. Extract views, likes, channel info, thumbnails, transcripts, and more.

Optimized pricing for all plans

Features

• 🔍 Search scraping — Search any term and scrape videos, shorts, or streams
• 🎬 Videos, Shorts & Streams — Scrape any content type separately
• 📝 Transcripts/Subtitles — Download in TXT, SRT, VTT, or JSON format
• 🌍 Multi-region — Target specific countries and languages
• 🔗 Direct URLs — Scrape specific videos by URL
• 🎯 View filters — Filter by minimum/maximum view count
• ⚡ Optimized — Fast, efficient, and cost-effective

Output Data

Each scraped video includes:

Field	Description
title	Video title
videoId	YouTube video ID
videoUrl	Full video URL
contentType	video, short, or live
views	View count
likes	Like count
channelName	Channel name
channelId	Channel ID
channelUrl	Channel URL
subscribers	Channel subscriber count
publishedDate	Publish date
thumbnail	Thumbnail URL
isMembersOnly	Members-only content flag
subtitles	Transcript text (if enabled)
subtitlesLanguage	Transcript language code
searchTerm	Original search term
scrapedAt	Scrape timestamp

Example Output

{
  "title": "How to Build a Web Scraper in 10 Minutes",
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "contentType": "video",
  "views": 1250000,
  "likes": 45000,
  "channelName": "Tech Tutorials",
  "channelId": "UC1234567890",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1234567890",
  "subscribers": 500000,
  "publishedDate": "2 months ago",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "isMembersOnly": false,
  "searchTerm": "web scraping tutorial",
  "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Input Parameters

Search Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchTerms	array	[]	List of search terms
maxVideosPerSearch	integer	10	Max videos per search (0 to disable)
maxShortsPerSearch	integer	0	Max shorts per search (0 to disable)
maxStreamsPerSearch	integer	0	Max streams per search (0 to disable)

Direct URLs

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
directUrls	array	[]	Direct YouTube URLs to scrape

Transcript Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
downloadSubtitles	boolean	false	Download transcripts
subtitleLanguage	string	en	Preferred language
subtitleFormat	string	txt	Format: txt, srt, vtt, json

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
minViewCount	integer	0	Minimum views (0 = no minimum)
maxViewCount	integer	0	Maximum views (0 = no maximum)

Localization

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
regionCode	string	US	YouTube region
interfaceLanguage	string	en	Interface language

Performance

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
delayBetweenRequests	integer	500	Delay in ms between requests
deduplicateResults	boolean	true	Skip duplicate videos

Proxy

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Proxy settings

Example Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["web scraping tutorial", "python automation"],
  "maxVideosPerSearch": 20,
  "maxShortsPerSearch": 5,
  "downloadSubtitles": true,
  "subtitleLanguage": "en",
  "subtitleFormat": "txt",
  "minViewCount": 1000,
  "regionCode": "US",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Use Cases

• Market Research — Analyze trending content in your niche
• Competitor Analysis — Track competitor video performance
• Content Ideas — Find popular topics and formats
• Lead Generation — Find channels and creators to reach out to
• Data Analysis — Build datasets for ML/AI training
• Transcript Mining — Extract text content for analysis

Integrations

Export data to:

• JSON, CSV, Excel
• Google Sheets
• Webhooks
• Zapier, Make, n8n
• Any API endpoint

Tips

1. Use Apify Proxy — Recommended for reliable scraping at scale
2. Start small — Test with a few videos before large scrapes
3. Filter by views — Use minViewCount to get only popular content
4. Deduplicate — Keep deduplicateResults enabled to avoid duplicates across search terms

Pricing

$0.0025 - $0.004 per video scraped = $2.5 - $4 per 1,000 videos

You only pay for successfully scraped videos with complete metadata.

Support

Having issues? Open an issue for this Actor or contact me at https://x.com/Im_BluePhantom.