Pricing

Pay per event

YouTube Scraper

Scrape YouTube videos, channels, and metadata without an API key. Search by keyword or scrape a full channel's video catalogue. Returns structured records with video ID, title, description, view count, like count, channel, duration, publish date, and thumbnail URLs.

Pricing

Pay per event

Rating

0.0

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Developer

BowTiedRaccoon

Actor stats

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

Last modified

What it does

The actor uses YouTube's InnerTube REST API — the same JSON API used by YouTube's own web client. No API key, no browser rendering, and no proxy needed. Requests run on standard datacenter infrastructure, keeping costs low.

Two scraping modes are available:

Search mode (mode: search) — submit one or more keyword queries and collect matching video results, paginated via InnerTube continuation tokens.
Channel mode (mode: channel) — supply a channel URL, handle, or bare channel ID and collect all videos from that channel's Videos tab.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`mode`	string	`search` (default) or `channel`
`queries`	array	Keywords to search for (search mode only)
`channelUrl`	string	Channel URL, `@handle`, or UC... ID (channel mode only)
`maxItems`	integer	Maximum videos to return per query / total for channel mode

Channel URL formats accepted:

https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA
Bare ID: UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA

Output

Each record contains:

Field	Type	Description
`videoId`	string	YouTube video ID
`videoUrl`	string	Full watch URL
`title`	string	Video title
`description`	string	Description snippet (if shown in search results)
`channelId`	string	YouTube channel ID (UC...)
`channelName`	string	Channel display name
`channelUrl`	string	Channel canonical URL
`viewCount`	integer	Total view count
`likeCount`	integer	Like count (null if hidden)
`commentCount`	integer	Comment count (null if unavailable)
`durationSeconds`	integer	Duration in seconds
`publishedAt`	string	Relative publish date (e.g. "1 year ago")
`thumbnailUrl`	string	Highest-resolution thumbnail URL
`tags`	string	Comma-separated tag list (if available)
`isLive`	boolean	Whether the video is a live stream
`categoryId`	string	Video category name
`query`	string	The search query or channel URL that produced this record
`scrapedAt`	string	ISO timestamp when the record was collected

Example: search mode

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["python tutorial", "javascript crash course"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: channel mode

{
  "mode": "channel",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Performance and cost

Memory: 256 MB
Proxy: none required
Approximate throughput: 20 videos per InnerTube page, ~200 ms delay between pages
Pricing: pay-per-result (DATA_RECORD events)

Notes

publishedAt returns YouTube's relative format ("3 days ago", "1 year ago") rather than an absolute ISO date — the InnerTube browse/search API does not expose absolute timestamps in these endpoints.
likeCount and commentCount are not available from the InnerTube browse/search endpoints and will always be null.
description is populated only when YouTube includes a snippet in search results; it is typically null in channel mode.
The actor handles YouTube's EU consent mechanism automatically via a session cookie header.

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