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Fast YouTube scraper to extract video metadata, titles, channel profiles, thumbnails, and transcripts from keywords or URLs without API keys.

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⚡ YouTube Video Search & Metadata Scraper

Extract rich YouTube video metadata, channel details, thumbnails, and English transcripts via keywords or direct video URLs. Built for high speed and 100% anti-bot resilience without requiring Google API keys.

🚀 Key Features

Search by Keywords: Find videos by topic (e.g., ai tutorial, machine learning) without opening a browser.
Direct Video URL Extraction: Fetch video metadata instantly from standard YouTube links and Shorts.
Transcript Extraction: Pull full video subtitles/captions directly into text format for LLM workflows and AI agents.
Anti-Bot Resilient: Built on lightweight endpoints that bypass typical YouTube 429 and CAPTCHA blocks.
Blazing Fast: Processes records in 1–2 seconds with minimal compute unit consumption.

📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`searchKeywords`	Array	No	Search terms to query on YouTube (e.g. `["machine learning roadmap"]`).
`videoUrls`	Array	No	Direct YouTube links to scrape.
`downloadSubtitles`	Boolean	No	Set to `true` to extract English video transcripts/captions.
`maxResults`	Integer	No	Maximum number of videos to scrape (default: `10`).

📤 Output Format

Data is stored in the default dataset and exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML:

{
  "id": "x63HCoDfAhQ",
  "title": "Protecting the President: Security, VIP Threats & ADC Life",
  "url": "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x63HCoDfAhQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x63HCoDfAhQ)",
  "thumbnailUrl": "[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x63HCoDfAhQ/hqdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x63HCoDfAhQ/hqdefault.jpg)",
  "channelName": "Raj Shamani",
  "channelUrl": "[https://www.youtube.com/@rajshamani](https://www.youtube.com/@rajshamani)",
  "videoType": "video",
  "subtitles": "Full English subtitles transcript text here...",
  "error": null
}

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