You can access the YouTube Data Scraper — videos, search, and channels programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "videoUrls": [
12        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
13    ]
14};
15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17const run = await client.actor("dangul/youtube-data-scraper").call(input);
18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
20console.log('Results from dataset');
21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
23items.forEach((item) => {
24    console.dir(item);
25});
26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

YouTube Data Scraper - Video, Channel, Search, No API Key API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Data Scraper — videos, search, and channels API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

YouTube Data Scraper — videos, search, and channels API in Python

YouTube Data Scraper — videos, search, and channels API through CLI

YouTube Data Scraper — videos, search, and channels OpenAPI definition

YouTube Data Scraper — videos, search, and channels API

YouTube Videos Scraper

thescrapelab/Apify-YouTube-Videos-Scraper-2-0

Scrape YouTube video metadata from search queries, channels, and video URLs without the YouTube API. Export titles, links, views, thumbnails, and channel data.

Inus Grobler

YouTube Video & Channel Data Extractor

victor187/youtube-video-channel-data-extractor

Bulk-fetch view/like/comment counts, duration and metadata for YouTube videos and channels using the official YouTube Data API v3. No scraping.

victor

YouTube Video Data Scraper

rambunctious_fingerprint/youtube-video-scraper

Casey Marsh

YouTube Scraper

beautifulscrape/youtube-scraper

Scrape videos, channels, playlists, and search results from YouTube. Extract metadata, subtitles, and channel info.

Beautiful Scrape

Youtube Search Video Scraper Max Iteams

alpha-scraper/youtube-search-video-scraper-max-iteams

Extract video data from YouTube search results using one or multiple keywords.YouTube Search Results Scraper, YouTube Search Data Extractor, YouTube Keyword Video Scraper, YouTube Search Keyword Scraper, YouTube Video Search API, YouTube Video Metadata Scraper,YouTube Trending Videos Scraper.

Alpha Scraper

Youtube Profile Scraper

alpha-scraper/youtube-profile-scraper

YouTube Profile Scraper, YouTube Channel Scraper, YouTube Channel Data Extractor, YouTube Metadata Scraper, YouTube Creator Scraper, YouTube Influencer Scraper, YouTube Channel Information Extractor, YouTube Subscriber Scraper, YouTube Channel Analytics Scraper, YouTube Channel Statistics Scraper.

Alpha Scraper

YouTube Scraper - Search, Videos, Channels & Playlists

code-node-tools/youtube-scraper

YouTube scraper to extract video metadata from channels, playlists & search. Scrape YouTube videos without API limits - get titles, views, likes, thumbnails, transcripts & more. Fast YouTube channel scraper & playlist scraper. No YouTube API key required. Export to CSV/JSON.

CodeNodeTools

YouTube API | YouTube comments video search channel videos

socialdatax/socialdatax-youtube-data-api

SocialDataX read-only YouTube API for YouTube comments, video search, video details, comment replies, channel profiles, and YouTube channel videos. Results export to Apify Dataset, CSV, Excel, JSON, or API workflows.

SocialDataX

YouTube Scraper: Search, Channels & Video Metadata

softprodlabs/youtube-public-data-scraper

Search YouTube by keyword, collect channel videos with pagination, or extract metadata from watch, Shorts and share URLs. Export titles, channel names, views and source links to JSON/CSV. No API key; no transcripts or downloads.