Odysee Scraper — Video Search, Channels & Metadata

Odysee in rows: title, description, channel, duration, resolution, release date, tags, licence, thumbnail and a watch link — from any search term or channel.

What does the Odysee Scraper do?

This Actor collects videos from Odysee, the video platform built on the LBRY blockchain protocol, and returns one row per upload with the metadata as data rather than display text — 300 seconds instead of "5:00", a resolution of 1920×1080 instead of an HD badge, and the channel's permanent identifier alongside its display name.

It reads the same gateway the Odysee web app itself calls, so a run gets exactly what the site gets: search results, channel back-catalogues, tags, licences and the LBC support amount that acts as Odysee's popularity signal. Claim URLs come out of the protocol in the form lbry://@channel#e/title#a, which no browser can open, so the Actor rewrites both the video and the channel into ordinary odysee.com links.

Odysee hosts more than video. Set the media type to audio, document or image and the same crawl walks those instead.

Who is it for?

• Media researchers studying platforms outside the mainstream video ecosystem.
• Content analysts and journalists tracking what circulates on alternative platforms.
• Trust and safety teams monitoring content distribution beyond YouTube.
• Web3 and decentralisation researchers studying LBRY-based publishing.
• Creators and MCNs benchmarking their Odysee presence.
• Archivists cataloguing independent video with licence information attached.
• Data scientists building datasets of alternative-platform video metadata.

Use cases

• Export a channel's entire back catalogue with dates, durations and tags.
• Track what is published on a topic across the platform.
• Study tag and licence distribution across independent video.
• Compare a creator's Odysee output against their other platforms.
• Build a searchable archive of independent video metadata.
• Monitor newly released uploads on a subject, on a schedule.
• Measure which content attracts the most LBC support.
• Collect audio or document uploads rather than video.

Why use this Odysee Scraper?

• No API key, no wallet, no account. The public gateway answers directly.
• 18 columns per upload, including tags, licence, resolution and support amount.
• Watchable links. Protocol URLs are translated into odysee.com addresses for both the video and its channel.
• Channel exports, not just search — paste a channel URL and get everything it published.
• Audio, documents and images, not only video.
• Runs without a proxy, so large jobs stay cheap.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
claimId	The upload's permanent claim identifier
title	Video title
channelTitle	Channel display name
channelName	Channel handle, e.g. @EltonJohn
duration	Length in seconds
releaseTime	Publication date, ISO 8601
videoWidth	Frame width in pixels
videoHeight	Frame height in pixels
tags	Tags the publisher applied
language	Declared language code
license	Licence the publisher declared
mediaType	MIME type, e.g. video/mp4
supportAmount	LBC staked in support — Odysee's popularity signal
reposted	How many times the upload was reposted
description	Publisher's description
channelUrl	Watchable channel link
thumbnail	Thumbnail image
url	Watchable video link

Sample output

{
  "claimId": "5872b6531188510040343eeaf5fe803d426ab400",
  "title": "Elton John - Take Me To The Pilot - Live New York (2007)",
  "channelTitle": "Elton John",
  "channelName": "@EltonJohn",
  "duration": 269,
  "releaseTime": "2021-01-13T12:04:02.000Z",
  "videoWidth": 1920,
  "videoHeight": 1080,
  "tags": "elton john, music, concert, new york, take me to the pilot",
  "language": "en",
  "license": "None",
  "mediaType": "video/mp4",
  "supportAmount": 51.63612436,
  "reposted": 1,
  "description": "Elton John performs Take Me To The Pilot live at Madison Square Garden.",
  "channelUrl": "https://odysee.com/@EltonJohn:f",
  "thumbnail": "https://spee.ch/4/ccaab0ad064e1550.gif",
  "url": "https://odysee.com/@EltonJohn:f/Elton-John---Take-Me-To-The-Pilot"
}

How to use the Odysee Scraper

Option A — search terms

Put topics or keywords in Search terms, one per line, set Maximum videos and run.

Option B — specific channels

Paste odysee.com channel links into Channel URLs. The Actor pulls everything those channels published, newest first.

Option C — audio, documents or images

Change Media type. The same search then returns podcasts, documents or images instead of video.

Option D — most supported content

Set Sort by to Most supported to surface what the community has staked LBC behind rather than what is merely recent.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Search terms, one per line
channelUrls	array	Odysee channel URLs to export in full
streamType	select	Video, audio, document or image
sortBy	select	Newest, most supported or trending
maxItems	integer	How many records to collect in total
proxyConfiguration	object	Off by default; Odysee answers without one

Tips for best results

• Channel URLs beat search when you want completeness. Search ranks; a channel export enumerates.
• supportAmount is the closest thing to a popularity metric. Odysee does not publish view counts through this gateway, so staked LBC is the signal available.
• Sort by Most supported to find substantial content rather than the newest upload.
• license often reads None. That is the publisher's own declaration, reported as given rather than cleaned up.
• Combine several search terms in one run — the row budget is shared across them.

Integrations

Deliver results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Zapier, Make or your own service through Apify's integrations, or schedule a run to track a topic or channel over time.

API usage

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~odysee-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchQueries": ["documentary"],
    "streamType": "video",
    "maxItems": 1000
  }'

Results export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Exposed as a tool through Apify's MCP server, so an agent can search Odysee, pull a channel's catalogue or summarise what is being published on a topic.

FAQ

Do I need an Odysee account, API key or wallet?

No. The gateway this Actor uses is the same public one the website calls.

How many videos can one run return?

Search results run into the thousands per term; a channel export is bounded by how much that channel published.

Does it download the videos?

No. This Actor collects metadata and links. The url column opens the video on Odysee.

Why is there no view count?

The public gateway does not expose one. supportAmount — the LBC staked behind an upload — is the popularity signal Odysee makes available, and it is included.

Can I export a whole channel?

Yes. Paste the channel's odysee.com URL into Channel URLs.

What is a claim ID?

Odysee is built on the LBRY blockchain, where every upload is a "claim" with a permanent identifier. It is the stable key for a video even if the title changes.

Can I collect podcasts or documents?

Yes — set Media type to Audio, Document or Image.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS.

How fresh is the data?

Every run queries Odysee live.

Why did my run return zero videos?

Usually a search term with no matches, or a channel URL the Actor could not read an identifier from. Copy the channel link straight from the address bar.

Is it legal to scrape Odysee?

This Actor reads a public gateway and collects publicly published metadata, which is generally lawful. You are responsible for how you use it — respect Odysee's terms, honour the licence each publisher declared, and do not redistribute content without permission.

Related scrapers

Pair with the other video and media Actors in the store to cover mainstream platforms alongside decentralised ones.