YouTube Live Stream Scraper 🎥

🤖 What does YouTube Live Stream Scraper do?

This actor allows you to scrape live streams and upcoming events from YouTube channels. It provides comprehensive data about live streams, including video details, channel information, viewer counts, and stream status.

✨ Features

• 📺 Scrapes live streams and upcoming events
• 🎯 Supports channel-specific scraping
• 📊 Provides real-time viewer statistics
• 💡 Captures detailed channel information
• ✅ Verifies channel authentication status
• 🔄 Handles both live and scheduled streams
• 🖼️ Includes high-quality thumbnail URLs
• 📝 Extracts video descriptions and titles

🔢 Output Dataset

The actor stores results in a structured JSON format, including:

• Video ID and URL
• Stream title and description
• Channel details (name, URL, verification status, avatar)
• Stream statistics (view count, status, scheduled time)
• Thumbnail URLs
• Scraping timestamp

💡 Use Cases

• Monitor live streaming activities
• Track viewer engagement
• Analyze streaming schedules
• Research content creator strategies
• Gather competitive intelligence
• Archive live stream metadata

🛠️ Input Parameters

• proxyConfiguration: Optional proxy settings for enhanced scraping capabilities

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

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Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-05T01:03:39.704Z",
4        "content": {
5            "videoId": "jTIuwc4uW30",
6            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTIuwc4uW30",
7            "title": "EN VIVO | COLOMBIA vs. PARAGUAY | CONMEBOL SUB20 2025",
8            "description": "#Colombia #Paraguay #Sub20 #Envivo\nSuscríbete | Inscreva-se | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/CONMEBOL\nFacebook: facebook.com/CONMEBOL\nInstagram: instagram.com/conmebol/\nTwitter: twitter.com/CONMEBOL",
9            "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jTIuwc4uW30/hqdefault.jpg?v=67a119d0&sqp=-oaymwEnCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxkIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB&rs=AOn4CLCyJuchnNgui5Q2hKanPpBm0f3vdw",
10            "channelInfo": {
11                "name": "CONMEBOL",
12                "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@conmebol",
13                "isVerified": true,
14                "avatar": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/qCpMzVfHqEFzcIWzBEfqobkWOytWCVrBJK9mHXFgSiARdo4iHTABdC3uYH3AUyECNSwGyhausQ=s68-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj"
15            },
16            "stats": {
17                "viewCount": "2,165",
18                "status": "live",
19                "scheduledStartTime": "",
20                "waitingCount": "2,165"
21            }
22        }
23    },
24    ...
25]