YouTube API Alternative & Scraper — Videos, Channels | $1/1k
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 results
Scrape YouTube without an API key: keyword search with filters, channel videos, Shorts and live streams, playlists and single videos. Exact views, likes, comment count, duration, upload date, description, hashtags, channel subscribers and channel profiles. $1 per 1,000 results.
One per line. Accepted: video links (watch?v=, youtu.be, /shorts/, /live/), channel links (@handle, /channel/UC..., /c/, /user/, optionally ending in /videos, /shorts, /streams or /about), bare @handles, video IDs, channel IDs (UC...), playlist links or IDs (PL...), and youtube.com/results?search_query=... pages. If you call the Actor with search terms only, the built-in example channel is skipped automatically.
[ "https://www.youtube.com/@TED"]Keywords to search on YouTube, one per line, exactly as you would type them in the YouTube search box. Each term returns up to 'Max results per search, channel or playlist' rows. A call that sends only search terms does not also scrape the built-in example channel.
Stop after this many rows have been saved in total. Each saved row with status ok is one billable result. Keep it small for test runs.
Cap for each search term, each channel and each playlist. YouTube pages through about 20 results per request.
For every video and Short found in a search, channel or playlist, also open the video to add the exact view count, like count, comment count, upload date, full description, hashtags and the channel's subscriber count. One extra request per video; the price per result stays the same.
For each channel you give, also save one row with the channel's About data: description, subscribers, total videos, total views, join date, country, the links the creator lists, avatar and banner. The profile row is one result.
Which list to read from a channel link that does not already end in /videos, /shorts, /streams or /about. 'about' returns only the channel profile row.
Order of a channel's videos, Shorts or streams, the same chips YouTube shows on the channel page.
What a search returns. 'all' mixes videos, Shorts, channels and playlists as YouTube shows them.
Only videos uploaded within this period (YouTube's own filter).
YouTube's length filter: under 4 minutes, 4 to 20 minutes, or over 20 minutes.
Relevance (YouTube's default) or view count.
Same as one entry in 'Search terms', for callers that send a single string.
Apify Proxy (datacenter, the default group) is on by default: YouTube starts refusing one server's requests after a few hundred video pages in a row, and spreading them over datacenter IPs keeps large runs clean. Residential proxies are not needed. Switch it off for small runs if you prefer.
{ "useApifyProxy": true}