YouTube Scraper & API | EveryInfra

Retrieve YouTube videos, Shorts, comments, captions, subscriber counts, and channel metadata.

Provide channel handles or video URLs. Subscriber counts are totals, not subscriber lists.

Actions

Action	What you get	Required	Optional	Results per request	Price per request
search	Search YouTube videos by keyword, up to 50 per call. Get channel, description, views, likes, comments, duration and publish date. sort orders by relevance, newest, most views or top rating. Results are not complete, and the ranking is not explained.	keyword	sort	10 (up to 50)	$0.0010
profile	Get a YouTube channel from its channel URL. Get bio, subscriber, video and view counts, verification, location, avatar, banner and creation date. It does not expose YouTube Analytics or a list of subscribers.	url	—	1	$0.0009
user_posts	List videos from a YouTube channel URL, up to 50 per call. Get title, description, views, likes, comments, duration and publish date. Use since for a start date and sort for newest, oldest or popular. One batch may not cover the whole channel archive.	url	since, sort	10 (up to 50)	$0.0014
video	Fetch the title, description, channel, views, likes, comment count, duration and publish date of one YouTube video from its watch or share link. Comments and the transcript come from their own actions, comments and transcript.	url	—	1	$0.0010
comments	Read comments on a YouTube video, up to 100 per call. Each comment has text, author, likes, reply count, date and a reply flag. Sort by newest or popular, and set a start date with since. Use reply_to_id to link replies. The full thread is not promised.	url	since, sort	20 (up to 100)	$0.0014
followers	Check the subscriber count of a YouTube channel from its handle. Get following, post, like and connection counts and a precision flag for rounded figures. Pass the @handle in username. It returns aggregate counts, not a list of subscribers.	username	channel	1	$0.0013
transcript	Pull the captions of a YouTube video as full text and timestamped segments, with the track language, available languages and channel details. language requests a track, but not every video has captions and automatic translation is not guaranteed.	url	language	1	$0.0008
shorts	Browse the Shorts of a YouTube channel by handle, up to 100 per call. Get title, thumbnail, views, likes, duration and publish date. Pass a handle in username, not a UC channel ID. One batch may not include every Short on the channel.	username	channel, since, sort	20 (up to 100)	$0.0016

Input

Pick an action and fill the fields it uses. Example:

{
  "action": "search",
  "keyword": "espresso"
}

Fields that another action needs are ignored when left empty. API users can also pass {"action": ..., "params": {...}}.

Output

Each result is one dataset row. Rows keep every field the source page exposes for that action; a field the platform hides or leaves empty for a record is omitted rather than filled with a placeholder. When there is a next page, the run's OUTPUT record holds next_page_token.

• search: id, url, title, text, author_name, author_username, author_id, author_url, like_count, comment_count, view_count, duration, posted_at, thumbnail_url, hashtags, is_comments_disabled, is_members_only, is_paid_partnership, author_follower_count, author_video_count, author_view_count, author_created_at, description_links, search_rank, platform
• profile: channel_id, name, url, bio, subscriber_count, video_count, view_count, is_verified, location, avatar_url, banner_url, created_at, platform
• user_posts: id, url, title, text, author_name, author_username, author_id, author_url, like_count, comment_count, view_count, duration, posted_at, thumbnail_url, hashtags, is_comments_disabled, is_members_only, is_paid_partnership, author_follower_count, author_video_count, author_view_count, author_created_at, description_links, search_rank, platform
• video: id, url, title, text, author_name, author_username, author_id, author_url, like_count, comment_count, view_count, duration, posted_at, thumbnail_url, hashtags, is_comments_disabled, is_members_only, is_paid_partnership, author_follower_count, author_video_count, author_view_count, author_created_at, description_links, search_rank, platform
• comments: id, text, author_name, like_count, reply_count, posted_at, is_reply, reply_to_id, platform
• followers: id, username, url, follower_count, following_count, post_count, like_count, connection_count, precision, platform
• transcript: id, url, title, text, segments, language, available_languages, channel_id, channel_name, channel_username, view_count, like_count, comment_count, posted_at, platform
• shorts: id, url, title, thumbnail_url, view_count, like_count, duration, posted_at, author_name, author_id, author_url, platform

Pricing

Pay per event, charged only when a run delivers data:

• search: $0.0010, one event per started block of 10 results.
• profile: $0.0009, one event per non-empty request, whatever the row count.
• user_posts: $0.0014, one event per started block of 10 results.
• video: $0.0010, one event per non-empty request, whatever the row count.
• comments: $0.0014, one event per started block of 20 results.
• followers: $0.0013, one event per non-empty request, whatever the row count.
• transcript: $0.0008, one event per non-empty request, whatever the row count.
• shorts: $0.0016, one event per started block of 20 results.

Empty or failed requests are never charged. There is no actor-start fee and no per-row fee. Apify platform usage may apply.

Free trial

The first 3 accepted data requests per Apify account are free across all EveryInfra Actors combined (a lifetime total, not per Actor and not reset). Invalid input does not use a trial; an accepted request that returns no data still does. After that a paid Apify plan is required.

Notes

• Results reflect what is publicly visible when the run happens; counts can be lower than requested.
• One run makes one request. For more pages, start another run with page_token where the action supports it.

Support

Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab with the run ID.