YouTube Scraper - Search, Channels, Videos, $1/1K, No API Key

Scrape YouTube search results, channels and playlists with no API key and no quota: title, channel, views, length and date, with subscriber counts on channel runs.

Why this one

• $1 per 1,000 videos, and less on paid plans.
• One input box. Put keywords, @handles, channel links and playlist links on separate lines; the Actor works out which is which.
• No API key, no daily quota. You don't need a Google Cloud project.
• Real filters. Sort by views, upload date, length and country on keyword searches.
• Channel numbers on every row. Channel runs add subscribers and video count, so sizing up channels needs no second step.
• You only pay for videos. Failed lines are listed in RUN_SUMMARY and cost nothing.

Input

Field	Example
Keywords, channels or playlists	home espresso machine, @NASA, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...
Max videos per search	100
Sort searches by	Relevance or most views
Uploaded	Today, this week, this month...
Length	Under 4, 4 to 20, over 20 minutes
Channel tab	Videos, live streams or Shorts
Country	US, GB, DE

Every field is optional except Keywords, channels or playlists.

Output

One row per video. Example:

{
    "id": "vy-IH48TE6s",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-IH48TE6s",
    "type": "video",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vy-IH48TE6s/hqdefault.jpg",
    "title": "Best Coffee Machine? What 4 Years of Testing Taught Me",
    "channel": "Cafelista_Coffee",
    "channelId": "UCs9ebaR2mjroAZh4k8kMSyw",
    "channelHandle": "@Cafelista_Coffee",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@Cafelista_Coffee",
    "views": 30214,
    "duration": "14:27",
    "durationSeconds": 867,
    "publishedAgo": "4 days ago",
    "snippet": "CHECK THE PRICES of every model in the chart: *Drip Coffee Makers* Budget drip coffee maker: https://geni.us/LEMib ...",
    "source": "search",
    "searchQuery": "home espresso machine"
}

Each row also has searchQuery: the search that found it. A summary of the run (videos per search, the site's total for each search, and any searches that failed) is saved as RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store.

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Output tab, or use the API.

Use cases

• Competitor research: every video a channel posted, with views and dates.
• Keyword and topic research: what ranks for a search, how long it is and how many views it gets.
• Creator discovery: channels in a niche with their subscriber counts.
• Daily monitoring: run a channel on a schedule with a low limit to catch new uploads.

Pricing

Pay per video. See the Pricing tab. Searches that fail are free.

Good to know

• Lists show rounded view counts ("1M views"), so views are rounded on many rows. This Actor does not return likes, tags, full descriptions or exact publish times, and it does not read single video links.
• YouTube ends a keyword search after several hundred results. To go deeper, split it into narrower keywords or use the upload date filter.
• The Shorts tab shows about the latest 40 Shorts per channel.
• This Actor does not return transcripts: YouTube restricts caption files for automated requests.
• publishedAgo is YouTube's own text ("3 weeks ago").
• This Actor reads public video data only. It does not log in, and it does not collect comments, commenter names or contact details.

Feedback

Missing a field or a filter? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

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