YouTube Music Song Scraper 🎵

Scrape detailed song information from YouTube Music search results. This actor helps you gather comprehensive music data including song titles, artists, albums, play counts, and more.

Features ✨

• 🔍 Search for songs using keywords
• 📊 Get detailed song metadata
• 🎨 Multiple thumbnail sizes
• 🔗 Complete URLs for songs, artists, and albums
• ⏱️ Duration and play count information
• 📅 Timestamp for when data was scraped

Use Cases 💡

• Music trend analysis
• Artist popularity tracking
• Playlist creation and management
• Music catalog building
• Research and data analysis

Output 📋

The actor provides detailed information for each song, including:

• Song title and video ID
• Artist name and channel ID
• Album name and ID
• Thumbnail images in different sizes
• Song duration
• Play count statistics
• Complete URLs for all entities
• Timestamp of data collection

Input Parameters 🎛️

Parameter	Type	Description
keywords	Array	List of search terms to scrape songs for
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of songs to scrape per keyword

Tips 💡

• Use specific keywords for more targeted results
• Adjust maxItems based on your data needs
• Consider rate limiting for large-scale scraping

Limitations ⚠️

• Results depend on YouTube Music's search algorithm
• Some songs might have incomplete data
• Play counts are approximate values

Need help or have questions? Feel free to reach out through Apify's platform!

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "u2"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 100
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": "With Or Without You",
6            "videoId": "oNvWDP_GkiY",
7            "thumbnails": [
8                {
9                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wJlCrdtCtp9vkjWNFurUqhxrppYKGcDcN0ZpwP0CC3z-dhtjw1yMQkFszwe4SZTMiukr7YSvWZ6Sh9Ec=w60-h60-l90-rj",
10                    "width": 60,
11                    "height": 60
12                },
13                {
14                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wJlCrdtCtp9vkjWNFurUqhxrppYKGcDcN0ZpwP0CC3z-dhtjw1yMQkFszwe4SZTMiukr7YSvWZ6Sh9Ec=w120-h120-l90-rj",
15                    "width": 120,
16                    "height": 120
17                }
18            ],
19            "artist": {
20                "name": "U2",
21                "id": "UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ",
22                "url": "https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ"
23            },
24            "album": {
25                "name": "The Joshua Tree (Super Deluxe)",
26                "id": "MPREb_Q8UrZ760tV6",
27                "url": "https://music.youtube.com/browse/MPREb_Q8UrZ760tV6"
28            },
29            "duration": "4:56",
30            "plays": "487M plays",
31            "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvWDP_GkiY"
32        },
33        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-09T12:17:04.580Z"
34    },
35    ...
36]