YouTube Scraper - Videos, Channels, Search Results & Shorts

Scrape YouTube videos from search results, channels, playlists, Shorts and video URLs. Get title, views, likes, publish date, duration, tags, category, full description, thumbnail - and optionally comment count and channel subscribers.

$1 per 1,000 videos. No start fee, no subscription. Private, deleted or unavailable videos are never charged.

Why this scraper

• 4x cheaper than typical YouTube scrapers - $0.001 per video with full details
• Fast - uses YouTube's own data API, no browser (a few KB per video)
• All sources in one run - search queries, channels (@handle, URL or ID), playlists, single videos
• Search filters - sort by relevance / views / rating, upload date (hour, today, week, month, year)
• Channel tabs - Videos, Shorts or Live streams, newest first
• Date filter - publishedAfter skips older videos (skipped videos are free)
• Exact numbers - views and likes as integers, ISO publish date, duration in seconds and h:mm:ss

Use cases

• Influencer & competitor research - what a channel publishes and how it performs
• Trend & content research - top videos for a keyword this week
• Marketing analytics - track views and likes of campaign videos over time (schedule the Actor)
• Datasets for AI - titles, descriptions and tags at scale
• Lead generation for agencies - find active channels in a niche

Input example

{
  "searchQueries": ["iphone 17 review"],
  "searchSort": "views",
  "searchUploadDate": "week",
  "channels": ["@mkbhd"],
  "maxVideosPerSource": 50,
  "includeEngagement": true
}

Output example

{
  "videoId": "8jPQjjsBbIc",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPQjjsBbIc",
  "title": "How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed | Daniel Levitin | TED",
  "channelName": "TED",
  "channelId": "UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug",
  "channelHandleUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@TED",
  "publishedAt": "2015-11-23T08:58:55-08:00",
  "durationSeconds": 740,
  "duration": "12:20",
  "viewCount": 19927105,
  "likeCount": 268175,
  "commentCount": 4000,
  "subscriberCount": 27800000,
  "category": "Science & Technology",
  "keywords": ["TED Talk", "TED Talks", "Neuroscience"],
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8jPQjjsBbIc/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "sourceType": "search",
  "source": "how to stay calm"
}

Pricing

$0.001 per scraped video ($1 per 1,000), including the optional comment and subscriber counts. Unavailable videos and videos skipped by publishedAfter are not charged.

FAQ

Can I get transcripts too? Use the YouTube Transcript Scraper from the same author - same inputs, $2 per 1,000 transcripts.

How many videos per channel? Up to 5,000 per channel from the Videos tab (newest first).

Are comment and subscriber counts exact? They are YouTube's rounded public numbers (e.g. 27.8M -> 27,800,000). Views and likes are exact.

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