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YouTube Video & Search Scraper

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Scrape YouTube video metadata and search results. Get titles, views, likes, descriptions, and thumbnails. No API key.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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The Emperor

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Monthly active users

2 days ago

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Features

Search Mode: Search YouTube and get metadata for matching videos
Video Mode: Scrape specific videos by URL or video ID
No YouTube Data API key required
Extracts: title, views, likes, duration, publish date, description, category, keywords, thumbnails
Supports youtube.com, youtu.be, and bare video ID formats

Use Cases

Competitor Analysis: Track competitors' video performance and content strategy
Content Research: Find trending topics and popular videos in your niche
Market Research: Analyze view counts and engagement across topics
SEO Research: Find keywords and topics with high YouTube search volume
Data Journalism: Collect video statistics for analysis

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	"search"	"search" or "videos"
searchQueries	string[]	[]	Search terms (search mode)
videoUrls	string[]	[]	Video URLs/IDs (videos mode)
maxResults	integer	10	Max results per query (max 50)

Output

Each result contains:

video_id, title, author_name, author_url
view_count, like_count, duration_seconds
publish_date, description, category, keywords
url, thumbnail_url

Examples

Search Mode

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["python web scraping tutorial", "fastapi deployment"],
  "maxResults": 20
}

Video Mode

{
  "mode": "videos",
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "youtu.be/abc123",
    "xyz789"
  ]
}

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