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YouTube Research Scraper - Videos, Channels & Search

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Collect YouTube video and channel research data for content analysis, competitor monitoring, and lead research. Export structured metadata for automation workflows.

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Developer

kane liu

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Total users

Monthly active users

15 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Videos

Developer tools

Run mode

runMode

Optional

Use real for live YouTube collection via the VPS worker. Use fixture for offline smoke tests (no live YouTube traffic).

Type:string

Default:real

Options:

realfixture

Worker base URL (optional override)

workerBaseUrl

Optional

Optional HTTPS override for the scrape worker. Defaults to Actor env WORKER_BASE_URL or https://yt.opendata.best.

Type:string

Example:

https://yt.opendata.best

Search queries

searchQueries

Optional

YouTube keywords to search. Each distinct query is an independent input with its own maxResults row allowance.

Type:string[]

Max. items:50

Default:

[
  "ai workflow automation"
]

Example:

[
  "ai workflow automation",
  "youtube competitor analysis"
]

Channel URLs

channelUrls

Optional

Public YouTube channels to scan for recent videos. Each distinct channel URL is an independent input with its own maxResults allowance, shared across the selected channel tabs.

Type:string[]

Max. items:50

Default:

[]

Example:

[
  "https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp"
]

Video URLs

videoUrls

Optional

Exact YouTube videos to process. Each distinct video URL or ID is an independent input; its video, comment, reply, and related-video rows share that input's maxResults allowance.

Type:string[]

Max. items:500

Default:

[]

Example:

[
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVv6mJpFOb0"
]

Max billed rows per input

maxResults

Optional

Maximum Dataset rows delivered and billed for each distinct query, channel URL, video URL, or trending input. Child comment, reply, channel, and related-video rows consume their originating input's allowance. The whole run also stops at your maximum total charge; free-plan runs are capped at 200 rows.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:70

Market country (gl)

Optional

YouTube market / region code for search ranking and InnerTube context (ISO-3166 alpha-2), e.g. US, GB, DE, JP, BR, IN.

Type:string

Min. length:2

Max. length:2

Default:US

Example:

Interface language (hl)

Optional

YouTube UI/search language, e.g. en, de, ja, pt-BR. Independent from transcriptLanguage.

Type:string

Min. length:2

Max. length:12

Default:en

Example:

Proxy country

proxyCountry

Optional

Optional residential egress country for detail/transcript (and search when Use proxy for search is on). Defaults to gl when gl/hl are set; otherwise US for enrichment-only runs.

Type:string

Min. length:2

Max. length:2

Example:

Upload date filter

uploadDate

Optional

YouTube search upload-date filter.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Result type filter

resultType

Optional

YouTube search type filter. Use short for short-form bias.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyvideochannelplaylistmovieshort

Duration filter

duration

Optional

YouTube search duration filter (short under ~4m, long over ~20m).

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyshortmediumlong

Channel tab

channelTab

Optional

Which channel tab to scrape: videos, shorts, streams, or all. When all is selected, the tabs share that channel input's maxResults allowance.

Type:string

Default:videos

Options:

videosshortsstreamsall

Include channel about

includeChannelAbout

Optional

When scraping channel URLs, emit one standalone channel row with public about/stats fields before that channel’s video rows.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Use proxy for search

useProxyForSearch

Optional

Route search/channel HTML through residential proxy. Off by default (datacenter InnerTube/HTML); enable for geo-sensitive SERP.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Enrichment concurrency

concurrency

Optional

Max parallel detail/transcript/comment enrichments (1–16). Higher is faster but uses more proxy/egress.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:16

Default:6

Include comments

includeComments

Optional

Emit comments and replies as standalone rowType=comment rows. They consume the maxResults allowance of the query, channel, video, or trending input that produced the parent video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max top-level comments

maxComments

Optional

Maximum top-level comments considered per video. 0 means source-exhaustive within safety caps, but the originating input's maxResults allowance always wins.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:20000

Default:0

Include comment replies

includeCommentReplies

Optional

Emit reply rows after their top-level comment while row budget remains.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Max replies per comment

maxRepliesPerComment

Optional

Maximum replies considered per top-level comment. 0 means source-exhaustive within safety caps, but maxResults always wins.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:2000

Default:0

Comment sort

commentSort

Optional

YouTube comment sort order.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewest

Include related videos

includeRelated

Optional

Emit related/recommended videos as standalone rowType=video rows with parent video fields.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max related videos

maxRelated

Optional

Maximum related-video rows considered per source video, inside the originating input's maxResults allowance.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100

Default:20

Include trending / popular topics

includeTrending

Optional

Discover popular videos for the selected market (gl). Trending is one independent input with its own maxResults allowance. YouTube removed classic /feed/trending; this uses topic hubs and tags each row with trendingTopic.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Trending candidate cap (optional)

trendingMaxResults

Optional

Optional smaller cap on trending candidates. When omitted, the smaller of maxResults and the 200-candidate safety cap is used.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:200

Scrape video details

scrapeDetails

Optional

Fetch richer metadata for each video, such as exact publish date, category, fuller description, and refreshed view count when available. Best used on smaller runs or shortlisted Video URLs.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include transcript

includeTranscript

Optional

Attempt to fetch timestamped captions and full transcript text for each video. Transcript fields are added only when captions are available and can be fetched. This is the heaviest mode, so it is best for targeted Video URLs or small shortlists.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Transcript language

transcriptLanguage

Optional

Preferred transcript language code, for example en, es, fr, de, ja, or pt. If the requested language is unavailable, the Actor can fall back to the first available caption track.

Type:string

Min. length:2

Max. length:12

Default:en

Example:

Include engagement metrics

includeEngagement

Optional

Backfill likeCount/subscriberCount/commentCountExact/viewCountExact from /next engagement panels.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include content structure

includeStructure

Optional

Backfill chapters/heatmap/topics/hashtags/descriptionRich/structuredDescription.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include playback metadata

includePlaybackMeta

Optional

Backfill storyboards/playbackTracking/playerConfig from the player response.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include stream formats

includeFormats

Optional

Backfill streamingData formats/adaptiveFormats (manifest URLs, itag, quality) from the player response. Defaults to the Include playback metadata value; set false to drop the formats list. Many popular videos return no stream URLs to anonymous clients, so this list may be empty on locked videos.

Type:boolean

Include cards & end screen

includeCardsEndscreen

Optional

Backfill in-video cards and end-screen recommendations.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Refresh video metrics

includeUpdatedMetadata

Optional

Re-check viewCount and likeCount for each collected video (not related videos) with one light request per video. Fresh values replace the row's values; the raw response is stored in updatedMetadata.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Resolve channel handles

includeResolveHandle

Optional

Resolve each channel URL or @handle to its channel ID. Adds resolvedChannelId and resolvedCanonicalUrl to channel rows (needs Include channel about) and to run diagnostics.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include home feed

includeHomeFeed

Optional

Not implemented yet; has no effect. Kept only so existing inputs that set it stay valid.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include guide

includeGuide

Optional

Fetch the YouTube guide (topic and category navigation) once per run for the selected market and save the first 50 entries in run diagnostics. Adds no rows.

Type:boolean

Default:false

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