YouTube Scraper - Videos, Channels & Search (No API Key)
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Scrape YouTube videos, channels, playlists and search without the Data API or quotas. Get title, views, likes, comments, duration, date, description, keywords, channel info and thumbnails - plus optional LLM-ready transcripts. Export JSON/CSV for research, competitor analysis and RAG.
You can access the YouTube Scraper - Videos, Channels & Search (No API Key) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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