YouTube Search Scraper: Videos & Channel Discovery
Pricing
from $0.15 / 1,000 search results
YouTube search scraper and YouTube search API: run a YouTube video search by keyword and get videos, Shorts, channels or playlists with views, age, length, channel and badges, in any country and language, with filters. A YouTube keyword scraper; full likes and comments as an add-on. No login.
#️⃣ Rank
position
Optional
The result's position in its search, as YouTube ranked it (1 = first).
🎬 Title
title
Optional
The video's, channel's or playlist's title as the search shows it.
🏷️ Type
type
Optional
video, shorts, stream (live, upcoming or a past stream), movie, channel or playlist. One result type is searched per run (the 'type' input).
🆔 ID
id
Optional
The video's 11-character id, the channel's UC... id or the playlist's id.
🔗 Link
url
Optional
Link to the video (a /shorts/ link for Shorts), channel or playlist.
🖼️ Thumbnail
thumbnailUrl
Optional
The largest thumbnail the search shows (a channel's avatar, a playlist's first video's image, a movie's poster).
🗂️ Playlist type
playlistType
Optional
playlist, course, podcast, album or mix.
🎞️ Videos
videoCount
Optional
Videos (lessons, episodes) in the playlist.
🎞️ Videos text
videoCountText
Optional
The playlist's video count as YouTube writes it.
▶️ First video
firstVideoId
Optional
Id of the playlist's first video.
▶️ First videos
firstVideos
Optional
The videos the search lists under the playlist: [{title, id, url, duration, durationSeconds}].
🖼️ All thumbnails
thumbnails
Optional
Every thumbnail size the search lists: [{url, width, height}].
🎞️ Preview
previewUrl
Optional
The moving preview YouTube plays when you hover the result (a 6-second animated WebP, the largest size). Null when the search shows none (Shorts grid entries, some videos).
🎞️ Preview sizes
richThumbnail
Optional
Every size of the moving preview: [{url, width, height}] (api-ninja's richThumbnail).
👀 Views
viewCount
Optional
View count: exact for videos (the search writes every digit), rounded for a Shorts grid entry (1.7M = 1700000); people watching now for a live stream. Null when not shown (movies).
👀 Views text
viewCountText
Optional
The view count as YouTube writes it in the search's language.
❤️ Likes
likes
Optional
Exact like count; null when the creator hides likes. With full details only.
🚫 Comments Off
commentsTurnedOff
Optional
True when comments are turned off. With full details only.
📅 Published
date
Optional
The day the video was published: with search rows, the day its age gives (YouTube rounds ages: '5 years ago' is 5 to 6 years); with full details, the exact time in UTC (2026-10-02T15:00:07Z) or the day.
📅 Age
dateText
Optional
The age as the search shows it ('5 years ago', 'hace 21 horas', 'Streamed 1 day ago').
📅 Estimated
dateEstimated
Optional
True when 'date' is the day the age gives (search rows); false when it comes from the watch page (full details).
⏱️ Duration
duration
Optional
Length as HH:MM:SS.
⏱️ Seconds
durationSeconds
Optional
Length in seconds.
📝 Description
text
Optional
The description snippet the search shows (a channel's or playlist's description); the video's full description with full details.
🔗 Description Links
descriptionLinks
Optional
Links in the description: [{url, text}]. With full details only.
🏷️ Tags
keywords
Optional
The video's tags (keywords) set by the creator. With full details only.
🗂️ Category
category
Optional
YouTube category, e.g. Science & Technology. With full details only.
🗣️ Spoken Language
originalLanguage
Optional
The language spoken in the video, e.g. English (from YouTube's player: the original audio track, else its only automatic captions). Null when YouTube doesn't say. With full details only.
🗣️ Language Code
originalLanguageCode
Optional
The spoken language's code, e.g. en. With full details only.
🎧 Audio Tracks
audioTracks
Optional
The video's audio tracks when it has dubs: languageCode, name, isOriginal (the uploader's own audio) and isAutoDubbed (YouTube's automatic dub), the original first. Null when the video has one audio track. With full details only.
📍 Location
location
Optional
Location the creator tagged on the video. With full details only.
🏅 Badges
badges
Optional
The result's badges as shown: New, 4K, CC, a course level, Free with ads, a rating...
🎞️ Movie info
movieMetadata
Optional
Movies only: the genre and year, actors and directors as the search shows them.
🔴 Live now
isLiveNow
Optional
True while the stream is live.
📡 Stream type
streamType
Optional
Streams only: live, scheduled (upcoming) or ended (a past stream). Null for other videos.
🗓️ Scheduled start
scheduledStartAt
Optional
An upcoming stream's or premiere's planned start (UTC).
🔒 Members only
isMembersOnly
Optional
True for a channel-members-only video.
🔞 Age Restricted
isAgeRestricted
Optional
True when YouTube marks the video as not family safe. With full details only.
🙈 Unlisted
isUnlisted
Optional
True for an unlisted video. With full details only.
💰 Paid Promotion
isPaidContent
Optional
True when the video declares a paid promotion ('Includes paid promotion'). With full details only.
💵 Monetized
isMonetized
Optional
True when YouTube serves ads on the video to a logged-out viewer (its player answer lists ad placements); false when it serves none. Null on Shorts and when the player answer wasn't read. With full details only.
▶️ Live Started
liveStartedAt
Optional
When a live stream started (UTC). With full details only.
⏹️ Live Ended
liveEndedAt
Optional
When a live stream ended (UTC). With full details only.
🎵 Sound
soundTitle
Optional
Shorts only: the Short's sound as YouTube's Shorts player names it, 'Original Sound' or the title of the video the sound comes from. Null for other videos. With full details only.
🎶 Song
musicTitle
Optional
Shorts only: the song YouTube identified in the Short, e.g. Dai Dai. Null when it names none. With full details only.
🎤 Artist
musicArtist
Optional
Shorts only: the identified song's artist(s), e.g. Shakira & Burna Boy. Null when it names none. With full details only.
🤝 Collaborators
collaborators
Optional
Channels credited on a video made by several channels. With full details only.
📑 Chapters
chapters
Optional
The chapters the search lists for the video: [{title, start (hh:mm:ss), startSeconds, thumbnailUrl}]. Null when it shows none.
📺 Channel
channelName
Optional
Name of the channel (the result's own name for a channel row).
🆔 Channel ID
channelId
Optional
YouTube channel id (UC...).
🔗 Channel
channelUrl
Optional
Link to the channel (its @handle link when it has one).
👤 Handle
channelUsername
Optional
The channel's @handle without the @.
🖼️ Channel avatar
channelAvatarUrl
Optional
The channel's avatar image.
✅ Verified
isChannelVerified
Optional
True when the channel has the verified (or official artist) badge.
🎤 Official artist
isChannelArtist
Optional
True for an official artist channel.
👥 Subscribers
numberOfSubscribers
Optional
Subscriber count as YouTube shows it (286K = 286000; 1,77 M = 1770000 in other languages). Video rows: with full details only.
👥 Subscribers text
subscribersText
Optional
The subscriber count as YouTube writes it in the search's language.
📝 Channel about
channelDescription
Optional
The channel's description from its About panel (full details).
🔗 Channel Links
channelDescriptionLinks
Optional
Links on the channel's About panel: [{text, url}]. With full details only.
📅 Joined
channelJoinedDate
Optional
When the channel joined YouTube ('Jan 4, 2017'). With full details only.
📅 Channel created
channelCreatedAt
Optional
When the channel was created, to the second (UTC), from its RSS feed: channel rows read it with full details; video rows have it when the run read the channel's feed anyway (for a publish time). Null when YouTube's feed doesn't answer (channelJoinedDate has the day).
📍 Country
channelLocation
Optional
The channel's country. With full details only.
🎞️ Channel videos
channelTotalVideos
Optional
Videos on the channel (when the search shows it, or from the About panel with full details).
👀 Channel Views
channelTotalViews
Optional
Total views of the channel. With full details only.
🔎 Search term
searchQuery
Optional
The search term that gave this result.
🔎 Input
input
Optional
The search term or YouTube search link as you gave it.
🔗 Search page
fromYTUrl
Optional
The YouTube search the result came from, with its filters (sp=).
🌍 Country
country
Optional
The country the search ran in (YouTube's gl).
🗣️ Language
language
Optional
The language the search ran in (YouTube's hl).
🕒 Scraped at
scrapedAt
Optional
When the row was read (UTC).
💬 Comments
commentsCount
Optional
Comment count, exact (10641949, not 10M: from the first comments page; a Short's from its player). As YouTube shows it (13K = 13000) only when that page doesn't answer in time; 0 when comments are turned off. With full details only.