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YouTube Search Scraper — Videos, Channels & Playlists

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Scrape YouTube search results for videos, channels, playlists and movies with title, channel, views, duration, publish date and thumbnails. Every YouTube search filter is supported, with no cookies or API key. Works with Apify MCP and the API.

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from $3.00 / 1,000 search results

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Developer

Khadin Akbar

Actor stats

Bookmarked

156

Total users

Monthly active users

3 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

MCP servers

Search queries

searchQueries

Required

One or more free-text YouTube search terms, exactly as you would type them into the YouTube search bar (e.g. 'how to bake sourdough'). Each query is scraped independently and results are merged into one dataset. Defaults to a single example query. This is NOT a YouTube URL or video ID — for a specific video's comments or transcript use the dedicated youtube-comments-scraper or youtube-transcript-extractor actors.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "lofi hip hop",
  "react tutorial 2025"
]

Max results per query

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

Maximum number of results to return for each search query, across pagination. The actor stops paginating once this many items are collected. Defaults to 50; set higher for deep scrapes (each result is billed). NOT a global cap across all queries — it applies per individual query.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:2000

Default:50

Result type filter

resultType

Optional

Restrict results to a single content type on YouTube. 'all' returns the natural mix YouTube serves (videos, channels, playlists). Choose 'video', 'channel', 'playlist', or 'movie' to narrow the search. Defaults to 'all'.

Type:string

Default:all

Options:

allvideochannelplaylistmovie

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

Ordering of the search results, mirroring YouTube's own sort options. 'relevance' is YouTube's default ranking; the others sort by upload recency, total view count, or rating. Defaults to 'relevance'. Note YouTube only sorts the first page reliably — deep pagination reverts toward relevance.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevanceuploadDateviewCountrating

Upload date filter

uploadDate

Optional

Restrict to videos uploaded within a recent time window, matching YouTube's 'Upload date' filter chips. 'any' applies no time filter. Only meaningful when results include videos. Defaults to 'any'.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anylastHourtodaythisWeekthisMonththisYear

Video duration filter

duration

Optional

Restrict videos by length, matching YouTube's 'Duration' filter. 'short' is under 4 minutes, 'medium' is 4–20 minutes, 'long' is over 20 minutes. 'any' applies no duration filter and is the default.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyshortmediumlong

Feature filters

features

Optional

Optional YouTube feature filters, applied together (e.g. ['hd','subtitles']). Mirrors YouTube's 'Features' filter chips such as Live, 4K, HD, Subtitles/CC, Creative Commons, 360°, VR180, 3D, HDR, Location, Purchased. Leave empty for no feature filtering (default). Combining many feature filters can sharply reduce result counts.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Country (gl)

country

Optional

Two-letter ISO country code used as YouTube's geo context (gl parameter), affecting which regional results and trending content appear (e.g. 'US', 'GB', 'DE'). Also used as the residential proxy country. Defaults to 'US'. NOT a language code — see 'language' for that.

Type:string

Default:US

Language (hl)

language

Optional

Two-letter ISO language code used as YouTube's interface/content language (hl parameter), affecting titles of localized metadata and relative date strings (e.g. 'en', 'es', 'de'). Defaults to 'en'. NOT a country code — see 'country' for that.

Type:string

Default:en

Raw filter token (advanced)

rawSpToken

Optional

Advanced override: a raw YouTube 'sp' filter token (the value after sp= in a filtered YouTube search URL). When set, it overrides the resultType/sortBy/uploadDate/duration/features fields entirely. Leave blank to let the actor build the token for you. Only for power users who copied a token from a complex YouTube filter URL.

Type:string

Default:

Managed fallback mode

fallbackMode

Optional

Controls when the managed fallback engages. 'auto' (default) uses direct HTTP + residential proxy first and only uses managed fallback after all retries are exhausted. 'never' disables the fallback entirely (run fails honestly if YouTube blocks). 'always' skips direct scraping and uses managed fallback for every query (highest reliability, higher cost).

Type:string

Default:auto

Options:

autoneveralways

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Proxy settings for the direct HTTP scrape. Residential proxies are strongly recommended and enabled by default — datacenter IPs are reliably blocked by YouTube. The country is auto-aligned to the 'country' field when not overridden here.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ]
}

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