YouTube Search Scraper searches YouTube by keyword and returns every video result as clean data: rank, title, channel, views, publish date, duration, snippet and URL. It is built for YouTube SEO, keyword research, trend spotting and competitor research, and lets you export YouTube search results to Excel, CSV or JSON without a YouTube API key or quota.

What does YouTube Search Scraper do?

You type one or more search terms, the same way you would in the YouTube search box. For each term, the robot runs the search with YouTube's Videos filter, reads the result pages one after another and saves each video with its position in the results. It stops when it reaches your limit or when YouTube has no more results.

You can narrow the search to videos uploaded in the last hour, today, this week, this month or this year, and choose the interface language of the results.

What you send:

• Search terms, one per line, for example ai agents tutorial, best budget phone 2026 or sourdough bread recipe.

What comes out:

• One row per video: the search term, the position, video ID, title, URL, channel name and ID, views (as a number and as YouTube's text), publish date as shown by YouTube, duration, the description snippet shown under the result, a live flag and a thumbnail URL.

No login, no cookies and no YouTube Data API key are needed.

What data can you extract?

Field	What it means	Example
query	The search term that produced this result	ai agents tutorial
position	Rank of the video in the results for that term (1 = first)	1
videoId	11-character video ID	Bm84BAtOfQw
title	Video title	You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Build Your First AI Agent (Full Guide)
url	Link to the video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm84BAtOfQw
channelName	Channel that published the video	Dan Martell
channelId	Channel ID (can be null, see Tips)	UCA-mWX9CvCTVFWRMb9bKc9w
views	View count as a number	758340
viewsText	View count as YouTube shows it	758,340 views
published	Publish date as YouTube shows it (relative)	2 months ago
duration	Video length	22:25
description	Description snippet shown in the search results (short, not the full description)	Get Your FREE AI Company Operating System here…
isLive	true if the result has a LIVE badge	false
thumbnail	Thumbnail image URL	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bm84BAtOfQw/hqdefault.jpg
scrapedAt	When the row was collected (ISO 8601, UTC)	2026-10-08T20:09:05.390Z
error	Only on error items: why a search gave nothing	No results

The default table view shows query, position, title, channelName, views, published, duration and url. All fields are in the full JSON, CSV and Excel exports.

How to use YouTube Search Scraper

1. Open the robot in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. In Search terms, add one search per line.
3. Set Max results per search (default 50).
4. Optionally choose an Upload date filter (any, hour, today, week, month, year).
5. Optionally change the Interface language (default en).
6. Click Start. Results appear in the Output tab while the robot works.
7. Click Export to download JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or read the dataset through the API.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
queries	array of strings	["ai agents tutorial"]	Search terms, one per line. Empty lines are ignored.
maxResults	integer, minimum 1	50	Stop after this many videos for each search term.
uploadDate	any, hour, today, week, month or year	any	Only videos uploaded in this period.
language	string	en	Interface language code for the results, such as en or pt.
proxy	object	{ "useApifyProxy": true }	Apify Proxy settings.

Example input:

{
  "queries": ["ai agents tutorial", "n8n automation", "claude code tutorial"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "uploadDate": "month",
  "language": "en",
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output example

One real item from a recent run for the search ai agents tutorial:

{
  "query": "ai agents tutorial",
  "position": 1,
  "videoId": "Bm84BAtOfQw",
  "title": "You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Build Your First AI Agent (Full Guide)",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm84BAtOfQw",
  "channelName": "Dan Martell",
  "channelId": "UCA-mWX9CvCTVFWRMb9bKc9w",
  "views": 758340,
  "viewsText": "758,340 views",
  "published": "2 months ago",
  "duration": "22:25",
  "description": "Get Your FREE AI Company Operating System here: https://go.danmartell.com/3SXCfgk Are you building an AI software ...",
  "isLive": false,
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bm84BAtOfQw/hqdefault.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T20:09:05.390Z"
}

If a search returns nothing, you get one error item for it:

{
  "query": "some very rare search term",
  "error": "No results"
}

How much does it cost?

The robot uses pay per event pricing. You pay only for the search results you get, and Apify platform usage is already included in the price.

Event	Price (Free plan)
Search result	$0.001 per video, which is $1.00 per 1,000 results

Paid Apify plans get a discount:

Plan	Price per 1,000 results
Free	$1.00
Bronze (-10%)	$0.90
Silver (-20%)	$0.80
Gold and higher (-30%)	$0.70

Worked examples on the Free plan:

• One search with the default 50 results: $0.05.
• 100 keywords × 50 results = 5,000 results: $5.00 ($3.50 on Gold).
• 20 keywords × 500 results = 10,000 results: $10.00 ($9.00 on Bronze, $8.00 on Silver, $7.00 on Gold).

What is NOT charged:

• No results error items.
• The same video seen twice in the results for one term (it is saved once).
• Empty lines in queries.

Use cases

• YouTube SEO and rank tracking: see which videos rank for your keywords, at which position and with how many views. Run it on a schedule to follow rank changes.
• Keyword and content research: compare how many views the top videos get for different keyword ideas before you make a video.
• Trend spotting: use uploadDate = week or today to see what is being published on a topic right now.
• Competitor research: find which channels dominate a topic and how often they appear in the top results.
• Influencer discovery: collect the channels that rank for your niche keywords and build a list of creators to contact.
• Build video lists for other tools: pass the URLs to a transcript, comments or video details scraper for deeper analysis.
• Market research: track how much video content exists around a product, brand or category.

Tips and limits

• Videos only. The robot always applies YouTube's Videos type filter, so channels and playlists are not returned. Only the upload date filter can be changed.
• No hard cap on results. maxResults has no upper limit in the input. The robot stops when YouTube serves no more result pages, so you may get fewer than maxResults.
• Keep language = en for exact numbers. The number in views is read from YouTube's English formatting (758,340 views, 1.2M views). With other languages, YouTube writes numbers differently (for example 758.340) and views can be wrong. In that case use viewsText, which is always the text YouTube shows.
• The language changes the text, not the filter. language sets YouTube's interface language, which changes words such as views and ago in viewsText and published.
• Dates are relative. published is text such as 5 days ago or 1 year ago, not an exact date. For exact dates, likes and comment counts, send the URLs to the YouTube Video Details Scraper.
• description is a snippet, the short text YouTube shows under the result (often cut with ...), not the full video description.
• channelId can be null when YouTube shows a video under several channels at once (for example Futurepedia and AI Agent Lab). channelName then holds all the names.
• Searches run one after another, and each page of results is saved as soon as it is read.
• Proxy. Requests go through Apify Proxy, with retries on new IPs and a last try on the Residential proxy group when your account has access to it.

Use it from the API, Python or JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js):

const { ApifyClient } = require('apify-client');

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const input = {
  queries: ['ai agents tutorial', 'n8n automation'],
  maxResults: 100,
  uploadDate: 'month',
};
const run = await client.actor('juliob.rangel/youtube-search-fast').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, 'results');

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run_input = {
    'queries': ['ai agents tutorial', 'n8n automation'],
    'maxResults': 100,
    'uploadDate': 'month',
}
run = client.actor('juliob.rangel/youtube-search-fast').call(run_input=run_input)
items = client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items().items
print(len(items), 'results')

You can also call it over plain HTTP with the Apify API (for example the run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint of juliob.rangel~youtube-search-fast).

It works with Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets export, webhooks and AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Do I need a login, cookies or a YouTube API key? No. The robot reads public search results the way a logged-out visitor sees them, so there is no daily API quota.

Can I export YouTube search results to Excel or CSV? Yes. Click Export in the Output tab and choose Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML.

How many results can I get per search? Up to your maxResults value, as long as YouTube keeps serving result pages. Add more related keywords to collect more videos on a topic.

Can I filter by upload date? Yes, with uploadDate: last hour, today, this week, month or year, or any.

Can I search for channels or playlists? No. The robot returns video results only.

Why did I get an error item? YouTube returned no video results for that term (with the chosen upload date filter), or the search could not be loaded after several retries. The item says No results and is not charged. Try a wider upload date or a shorter term.

Is scraping YouTube search results legal? The robot only collects publicly available data. You are responsible for complying with YouTube's terms and with privacy laws such as GDPR and LGPD. If you store personal data, you need a legitimate reason.

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• YouTube Video Details Scraper (Views, Likes, Comments)
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• YouTube Comments Scraper (Fast & Cheap)
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• YouTube Shorts Scraper (Channels & Hashtags)
• YouTube Channel Videos Scraper (Fast & Cheap)

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