YouTube Videos Scraper

A powerful tool for extracting detailed information about YouTube videos, shorts and live broadcasts.

Supply keywords, channel handles, URLs or IDs and receive structured JSON data including titles, descriptions, views, likes, comment counts, duration and channel details.

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🎯 Features

Flexible search options:

• Keyword search: minecraft tutorials
• Channel handle: @SailingLaVagabonde
• Channel URL: https://www.youtube.com/@SailingLaVagabonde
• Channel ID URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww
• Channel ID: UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww
• Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwRjEruEsm4
• Video ID: 3VdiAJvpAuA — a video, Short or live-broadcast ID

Detailed video data:

• Title, description, publication date and thumbnail URLs
• View, like and comment counts
• Duration, definition and caption availability
• License, privacy status and embedding settings
• Tags, topic categories and category ID
• Channel ID, title and handle
• Default language and audio language where available
• Live-broadcast status

Use cases

• Video research — collect descriptions, tags and topics for selected videos.
• Content discovery — find videos using keywords or channel inputs.
• Engagement analysis — compare views, likes and comment counts.
• Channel content analysis — examine a channel's videos and available metadata.
• Video monitoring — compare engagement statistics across runs.

🚀 Getting started

1. Create or sign in to your Apify account.
2. Enter keywords, channel handles, URLs or IDs, or individual video URLs or IDs.
3. Run the Actor and collect your data.

Apify Free Trial users are limited to 10 results per channel.

📥 Input parameters

{
  "channel_or_video": ["@SailingLaVagabonde"],
  "max_results": 100
}

See the Input tab for all configuration options and result-limit behaviour.

📤 Output fields

Video data is returned as structured JSON. Example:

{
  "videoId": "ZcIFmDp2WYU",
  "title": "Big Changes Ahead: Our Plans for the New Year!",
  "description": "A massive thanks to all the creators who've kindly supported this episode with their content, obtained under fair use.",
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-22T22:00:37Z",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZcIFmDp2WYU/sddefault.jpg",
  "viewCount": 515050,
  "likeCount": 21012,
  "commentCount": 1413,
  "favoriteCount": 0,
  "duration": "PT43M27S",
  "definition": "hd",
  "caption": "false",
  "licensedContent": true,
  "liveBroadcastContent": "none",
  "projection": "rectangular",
  "uploadStatus": "processed",
  "privacyStatus": "public",
  "license": "youtube",
  "embeddable": true,
  "publicStatsViewable": true,
  "topicCategories": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_(sociology)",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "sailing",
    "2025",
    "new year",
    "ocean",
    "family",
    "goals",
    "la vagabonde",
    "japan",
    "vlog",
    "australia",
    "q&a",
    "family vlog",
    "routine",
    "healthy",
    "fit",
    "sailboat",
    "sail",
    "sea",
    "Micronesia",
    "solomon islands",
    "spa",
    "funny"
  ],
  "categoryId": "19",
  "channelId": "UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww",
  "channelTitle": "Sailing La Vagabonde",
  "channelHandle": "@sailinglavagabonde",
  "defaultLanguage": "en",
  "defaultAudioLanguage": "en"
}

Statistics are sample values. Actual results contain the information available when the Actor runs.

💡 Usage tips

1. Use keywords for discovery, channel inputs for channel-based collection, or video URLs and IDs for specific videos.
2. Use max_results to limit the number of videos fetched; free-trial limits still apply.
3. Channel identifiers and names are included with each video.
4. The example timestamp ends in Z, indicating UTC. Duration uses ISO 8601 format: PT43M27S means 43 minutes and 27 seconds.

AI agents and integrations

Connect chat clients such as Claude and ChatGPT to Apify through the Apify MCP server to discover and run eligible Actors.

Structured records let agents work directly with video IDs, descriptions, engagement counts and channel details.

Example requests for an agent configured to use this Actor:

Collect video titles, publication dates and engagement counts from this YouTube channel.

Return descriptions, durations and topic categories for these video IDs.

For agent frameworks and API-based integrations, see Apify's AI integration guides. MCP availability depends on the Actor's pricing and permissions.

✏️ API access

Access through Apify's API and automation features:

• REST API
• SDK integration
• Webhooks
• Automated workflows

For setup and reference documentation, see the Apify API documentation.

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For bugs, additional fields or supported input requests, use the Actor's Issues tab.

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