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Fast, affordable YouTube data scraper. Find videos by keyword, scrape channels and playlists, collect metadata, comments, replies and transcripts without a YouTube API key.
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You can access the YouTube programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
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Return only videos matching every selected feature.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "hd", "subtitles", "creative_commons", "3d", "live", "4k", "360", "location", "hdr", "vr180" ] }, "default": [] }, "channelContentTypes": { "title": "Channel content", "type": "array", "description": "Choose the channel tabs to collect from every channel URL.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "videos", "shorts", "live", "playlists" ] }, "default": [ "videos" ] }, "maxVideosPerChannel": { "title": "Maximum videos per channel tab", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Stops each selected channel tab after this many videos.", "default": 100 }, "scrapeVideoDetails": { "title": "Collect full video metadata", "type": "boolean", "description": "Adds full description, exact duration, views, likes, category, keywords, flags and available caption languages.", "default": true }, "includeTranscripts": { "title": "Include transcripts", "type": "boolean", "description": "Adds the complete transcript and timestamped segments when captions are available.", "default": false }, "transcriptLanguage": { "title": "Preferred transcript language", "type": "string", "description": "Language code such as en, es, it or de. Falls back to an available caption track.", "default": "en" }, "includeRelatedVideos": { "title": "Include related videos", "type": "boolean", "description": "Adds the recommendations shown beside each video.", "default": false }, "downloadYoutubeVideo": { "title": "Download YouTube videos", "type": "boolean", "description": "Save each selected video as an MP4 file in the run's key-value store.", "default": false }, "videoDownloadQuality": { "title": "Video download quality", "enum": [ "360p", "480p", "720p", "1080p", "best", "bestefficiency" ], "type": "string", "description": "Choose the preferred MP4 quality. 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