YouTube Search Scraper: Videos & Channel Discovery
Pricing
from $0.15 / 1,000 search results
YouTube search scraper: search by keyword and get videos, Shorts, channels, playlists or movies with views, age, length, channel, badges and chapters, in any country and language, with YouTube's filters. Full likes, comments and channel stats as an add-on. No login, no API key.
#️⃣ 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.