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YouTube Search Scraper

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$1.80 / 1,000 video result scrapeds

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YouTube Search Scraper

YouTube Search Scraper

Search YouTube by keyword and get video results: videoId, title, channel name, view count, published time, duration, thumbnail, and URL.

Pricing

$1.80 / 1,000 video result scrapeds

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Gio

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Search YouTube by keyword and get structured video results — no login, no API key. Returns video ID, title, channel name, view count, published time, duration, thumbnail, and video URL.

Input

FieldTypeDescription
querystringSearch term, e.g. lofi hip hop radio
maxItemsintegerMax videos to return (default 20)

Example:

{
"query": "lofi hip hop radio",
"maxItems": 20
}

Output

{
"videoId": "5qap5aO4i9A",
"title": "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to",
"channelName": "Lofi Girl",
"viewCount": "180M views",
"publishedTime": "3 years ago",
"duration": "LIVE",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5qap5aO4i9A/hqdefault.jpg",
"videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A",
"scrapedAt": "2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Common uses

  • Keyword research and content gap analysis
  • Competitor and trend monitoring
  • Building a video discovery/recommendation feed
  • Feeding video IDs into downstream metadata/transcript tools

Notes

viewCount, publishedTime, and duration are returned as YouTube's own raw display text (e.g. "1.2M views", "3 weeks ago") rather than parsed numbers/dates, since normalization varies by locale. Live-stream videos may show "LIVE" instead of a duration.

Pricing

$1.80 per 1,000 results (pay-per-event, $0.0018/video). Comparable actors: YouTube Search Scraper $2.50/1k, Youtube Search Api $1.00/1k.