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YouTube Scraper (Videos, Comments, Transcripts)

Scrape YouTube without an API key: video metadata, comments, and transcripts/captions by video URL, video ID, or keyword search. Uses YouTube's InnerTube endpoints. Export JSON/CSV/Excel.

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Developer

Shahryar

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2 days ago

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Categories

Videos

Social media

Marketing

Video URLs

videoUrls

Optional

YouTube watch URLs to scrape. Accepts watch?v=, youtu.be/, /shorts/ and /embed/ forms; each is normalized to its 11-character video ID. You can paste plain strings or { "url": "..." } objects.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0"
]

Video IDs

videoIds

Optional

Raw 11-character YouTube video IDs to scrape directly, e.g. "dQw4w9WgXcQ" (alternative to Video URLs).

Type:array

Example:

[
  "dQw4w9WgXcQ"
]

Search queries

searchQueries

Optional

Keyword search strings. Each runs a YouTube search (videos only); matched videos are then enriched exactly like direct inputs.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "lofi hip hop",
  "machine learning tutorial"
]

Max results per search

maxResultsPerSearch

Optional

Maximum number of videos to collect per search query (pagination stops once reached).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:50

Scrape video metadata

scrapeVideoMetadata

Optional

Emit a type: "video" item per video (title, channel, views, publish date, duration, keywords, thumbnails, available caption languages, etc.).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Scrape transcript / captions

scrapeTranscript

Optional

Fetch the transcript (full text plus timestamped segments). Best-effort: uses YouTube's InnerTube transcript-panel endpoint via the mobile client, with the timedtext caption URL as a fallback. YouTube gates caption text behind PoToken/IP checks, so a transcript may be unavailable for some videos/IPs even when captions exist — a residential proxy improves the hit rate.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Scrape comments

scrapeComments

Optional

Fetch comments. This is the slowest, most rate-limited path, so it is off by default. A residential proxy is strongly recommended when enabled.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max comments per video

maxComments

Optional

Maximum top-level comments per video. Set 0 for unlimited (will paginate until YouTube stops returning a continuation).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Include comment replies

includeCommentReplies

Optional

Also expand reply threads (one extra request per thread that has replies). Replies are emitted as comment items with isReply: true and a parentCommentId.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Comments sort order

commentsSortBy

Optional

Which comment ordering to request from YouTube.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewest

Preferred caption language

language

Optional

Preferred caption language code (e.g. "en", "es", "de"). The matching caption track is selected when available; otherwise the scraper falls back to another track or an auto-generated one. Also sets the InnerTube hl locale.

Type:string

Default:en

Prefer manual captions

preferManualCaptions

Optional

Prefer human-written (non-ASR) captions over auto-generated ones when both exist for the chosen language.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Also emit raw search results

emitSearchResults

Optional

When using search queries, also push a lightweight type: "searchResult" item for each matched video (query, title, channel, view-count text, etc.) in addition to the enriched video/transcript/comment items.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

YouTube rate-limits datacenter IPs aggressively (429s and empty responses), so a RESIDENTIAL proxy is strongly recommended, especially for comments at volume.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ]
}

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