YouTube Music Albums Scraper 🎵

Powerful scraper for extracting detailed album information from YouTube Music. Get comprehensive data about albums, artists, and playlists in structured format.

🎯 Use Cases

• Music industry research and analysis
• Track artist discographies
• Build music recommendation systems
• Monitor new album releases
• Create music databases
• Analyze music trends over time

✨ Features

• Search multiple keywords/artists
• Extract detailed album metadata
• Get high-quality album artwork
• Collect artist information
• Generate direct playlist URLs
• Customizable results limit
• Clean, structured JSON output

🔍 Output Data

For each album, you'll get:

• Album title
• Artist name and channel ID
• Release year
• Album artwork (multiple resolutions)
• Playlist ID and direct URL
• Artist channel URL
• Timestamp of data collection

💡 Input Parameters

• keywords: Array of search terms (artist names, album titles etc.)
• maxItems: Maximum number of albums to scrape per keyword (default: 50)

🚀 Tips

• Use specific artist names for more focused results
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs
• Data is perfect for importing into spreadsheets or databases
• Results are real-time and constantly updated

📝 Notes

• Respects YouTube Music's terms of service
• Uses stealth techniques to avoid blocking
• Handles rate limiting automatically
• Clean, structured data format

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Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "u2"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 50
6}

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        "keyword": "u2",
4        "data": {
5            "title": "The Best Of 1980 - 1990",
6            "thumbnails": [
7                {
8                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w60-h60-l90-rj",
9                    "width": 60,
10                    "height": 60
11                },
12                {
13                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w120-h120-l90-rj",
14                    "width": 120,
15                    "height": 120
16                },
17                {
18                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w226-h226-l90-rj",
19                    "width": 226,
20                    "height": 226
21                },
22                {
23                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_nk5AC3XuQsS4GITQmmL9Jr45ZImsS1enhsfNPkIeqZqonm7mrt7kL7vMvMkN3q5SgXXkW_XefxK5dOwQ=w544-h544-l90-rj",
24                    "width": 544,
25                    "height": 544
26                }
27            ],
28            "type": "Album",
29            "artist": {
30                "name": "U2",
31                "id": "UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ",
32                "url": "https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ"
33            },
34            "year": "1998",
35            "playlistId": "OLAK5uy_kufeZRgzCIzRql9vJUptlVQcoT3W3FTNU",
36            "browseId": "MPREb_BbqUa7UXLpX",
37            "playlistUrl": "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kufeZRgzCIzRql9vJUptlVQcoT3W3FTNU"
38        },
39        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-09T09:57:41.866Z"
40    },
41    ...
42]