YouTube Scraper & Monitor ($0.50/1K)
Pricing
from $0.50 / 1,000 videos
No login or API key. Scrape YouTube search, channels, Shorts, live streams, playlists and videos: exact views, likes, comments, publish date, tags, full description and subscribers. Add transcripts and comments, and monitor channels or searches for new videos with Slack or Discord alerts.
Input
input
Required
What you entered, as entered: the search term or the link.
Source
source
Required
search, channel, playlist or video (a video you linked directly).
Search term
sourceQuery
Optional
The search term, for search sources.
Channel tab
channelTab
Optional
videos, shorts or streams, for channel sources.
Playlist
playlistTitle
Optional
The playlist's title, for playlist sources.
Position
position
Optional
Rank in the search results, channel tab or playlist, from 1.
Status
status
Required
ok, not-found (no such video, channel or playlist) or failed (YouTube kept blocking the request). Only ok rows are charged.
Error
error
Optional
Why the input has no videos, for not-found and failed rows.
Video ID
videoId
Optional
YouTube's 11-character video ID.
Video URL
url
Optional
Watch page, or the /shorts/ page for Shorts.
Type
type
Optional
video, short, live (streaming now) or upcoming (scheduled).
Title
title
Optional
Video title.
Description
description
Optional
Full description, with video details on.
Description snippet
descriptionSnippet
Optional
The short excerpt search results show.
Channel
channelName
Optional
Channel name.
Channel ID
channelId
Optional
YouTube channel ID (UC...).
Channel handle
channelHandle
Optional
The channel's @handle.
Channel URL
channelUrl
Optional
Link to the channel.
Verified channel
channelVerified
Optional
Has YouTube's verified check.
Channel subscribers
channelSubscriberCount
Optional
Subscribers, as YouTube rounds them (4.56M).
Views
viewCount
Optional
View count. Exact with video details on, rounded (5.3M) from channel and playlist listings without.
Views exact
viewCountIsExact
Optional
False when the count is YouTube's rounded one.
Likes
likeCount
Optional
Exact like count, with video details on. Empty when the creator hides likes.
Comments
commentCount
Optional
Comment count: exact when comments are collected, else as YouTube rounds it (2.4M).
Duration (seconds)
durationSeconds
Optional
Length in seconds.
Duration
durationText
Optional
Length as YouTube shows it.
Published
publishedDate
Optional
Publish date (YYYY-MM-DD). Exact with video details on; worked out from "2 weeks ago" without, see publishedDateIsApproximate.
Published date approximate
publishedDateIsApproximate
Optional
True when the date was worked out from YouTube's "2 weeks ago" text.
Published (as listed)
publishedTimeText
Optional
How long ago, as the listing showed it.
Publish kind
publishKind
Optional
uploaded, premiered, streamed, scheduled or live, from the watch page.
Thumbnail
thumbnailUrl
Optional
Thumbnail image URL.
Badges
badges
Optional
Badges on the listing (CC, 4K, New, LIVE).
Transcript status
transcriptStatus
Optional
ok, none (the video has no captions in the languages allowed) or failed (couldn't be read, not charged). Empty when transcripts are off.
Transcript
transcript
Optional
The captions as plain text.
Transcript language
transcriptLanguage
Optional
Language code of the captions used.
Transcript language name
transcriptLanguageName
Optional
As YouTube names the track.
Auto-generated transcript
transcriptIsAutoGenerated
Optional
True for YouTube's automatic captions, false for ones the creator uploaded.
Transcript lines
transcriptSegments
Optional
Every caption line with start and duration in seconds, with the timestamped format.
Subtitle file
transcriptSubtitles
Optional
The captions as an SRT or WebVTT file, with those formats.
Caption languages
transcriptLanguagesAvailable
Optional
Every caption language the video has.
Comment order
commentsSort
Optional
top or newest.
Monitor status
monitorStatus
Optional
In monitor mode: baseline (first run) or new (new since the last run).
Scraped at
scrapedAt
Required
When this row was collected (ISO 8601).
Comments
comments
Optional
Top-level comments: text, likeCount, replyCount, publishedTimeText, isEdited, isPinned and isByChannelOwner. Commenters' names aren't collected.