YouTube Scraper & API Alternative - Videos, Shorts | $1/1k
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 results
YouTube scraper and Data API alternative with no API key or quota: keyword search with filters, channel videos, Shorts and live streams, playlists and single videos. Exact views, likes, comment count, duration, upload date, hashtags and channel subscribers. $1 per 1,000 results.
All notable changes to YouTube Scraper are recorded here. The newest release is first.
Apify renders this as a Changelog tab on the Store page. Keeping it current is a visible signal that the Actor is maintained, which feeds the quality score that drives Store and MCP search ranking. Add an entry with every published build.
Privacy fix. Inputs, fields, defaults and price are unchanged.
description and in video and playlist titles are now replaced with [email] and [phone] (video, Short, playlist and channel rows). Links in the text, descriptionLinks, links, hashtags and the channel name, handle and ID stay as they are, and so do role mailboxes of a business such as partnerships@company.com.Fixes and new options. Existing fields, inputs and defaults are unchanged; a run with the same input returns the same rows plus the new fields, apart from the corrected values listed under "Fixed".
duration / durationSeconds when YouTube's video page does not show the length (looked up in search, one extra request, same price).channelName, channelId, channelHandle, channelUrl and subscriberCount.isLive: true (new field isUpcoming: true), streams on air no longer get wasLive: true, and upcoming streams in search results no longer show a viewCount of 0.publishedAt (YouTube only shows "Streamed 7 hours ago" for them).oldestPostDate (a date or e.g. 30 days): channel runs skip older items and stop paging at the first older video with Latest order.maxShorts and maxStreams: also read a channel's Shorts and Live tabs with their own caps.searchFeatures: YouTube's feature filters (Live, 4K, HD, Subtitles/CC, Creative Commons, 360°, VR180, HDR, Location).isUpcoming, isMembersOnly, commentsTurnedOff, isAgeRestricted, descriptionLinks (full URLs of the links in the description).First public release.
status, so a missing record (not_found) and a failure (error) are told apart from real data. Only ok rows are charged.