Youtube Keywords Discovery Tool

🔎 Youtube keywords discovery tool for autocomplete suggestions

Youtube Keywords Discovery Tool collects autocomplete keyword suggestions from YouTube search. Add one or more seed terms such as ai tools, home workout, or travel vlog, then export source-ranked Youtube keyword suggestions with the original seed, the exact query variant, and duplicate-query evidence.

Use this Actor for Youtube keyword research, content planning, video SEO briefs, niche research, campaign ideation, and repeatable keyword exports. It turns manual Youtube search-box checks into a structured Apify dataset you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML, or send to an API, webhook, scheduler, or integration.

For a first run, keep the prefilled seeds and default limit. They produce a broad sample across common Youtube research topics while staying bounded.

✅ What this Actor does

• Searches Youtube autocomplete with one or more seed keywords.
• Saves one dataset item per keyword suggestion.
• Checks base, question-style, preposition-style, and alphabetic query variants.
• Keeps Youtube's source order for each query variant.
• Deduplicates repeated suggestions within each seed keyword.
• Preserves the query variants that produced the same suggestion.
• Adds the original seed keyword and source rank to every row.
• Stops at your per-seed suggestion limit.
• Runs without Youtube login, cookies, OAuth, or a user-provided API key.

This Actor is focused on Youtube search autocomplete suggestions. It does not scrape Youtube videos, channels, comments, tags, transcripts, search volume, keyword difficulty, or trend scores.

📦 Data you can extract

Each output item represents one Youtube autocomplete suggestion. Fields include:

• seedKeyword
• query
• suggestion
• sourceRank
• duplicateSourceQueries

sourceRank is the one-based order returned by the source for the query variant. duplicateSourceQueries helps you see when the same suggestion appeared from more than one variant, without paying for duplicate rows within the same seed keyword.

🚀 Common use cases

• Build Youtube keyword research exports for video planning.
• Find autocomplete phrases around a product, niche, creator topic, or audience problem.
• Compare Youtube keyword suggestions across several seed terms.
• Create content calendars from phrases people may type into Youtube search.
• Feed Youtube keyword suggestions into spreadsheets, dashboards, or AI workflows.
• Schedule repeat checks for the same keyword set.
• Collect clean source-ranked suggestions for social search and Youtube SEO research.

▶️ How to run it

1. Add one or more seed keywords in Seed keywords.
2. Keep Suggestions per seed at 500 for a broad first run.
3. Start the Actor and open the dataset.

For larger jobs, add several related seeds and adjust the per-seed limit to control output size and spend.

🛠️ Input

🧪 Example input

{
	"keywords": [
		"ai tools",
		"home workout",
		"travel vlog",
		"cooking tips",
		"productivity apps",
		"study music"
	],
	"maxSuggestionsPerKeyword": 500
}

🎯 Seed keywords

Enter plain Youtube search seeds. Good examples:

• ai tools
• home workout
• travel vlog
• cooking tips
• productivity apps

Each seed is queried separately. Empty seed values are ignored during normalization.

📏 Suggestions per seed

Use maxSuggestionsPerKeyword to control how many suggestions can be saved for each seed keyword. The default and maximum are 500 per seed.

📊 Output example

{
	"seedKeyword": "ai tools",
	"query": "ai tools a",
	"suggestion": "ai tools for youtube creators",
	"sourceRank": 1,
	"duplicateSourceQueries": ["ai tools", "ai tools a"]
}

💳 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged for each Youtube keyword suggestion that is found and saved. Runs that find fewer suggestions only charge for the saved suggestions.

⚠️ Limits and caveats

• Youtube autocomplete suggestions can change over time.
• Some seeds can return fewer suggestions than your requested limit.
• The Actor does not provide search volume, CPC, popularity scores, keyword difficulty, or trend predictions.
• The Actor does not localize by country or language.
• Youtube may temporarily return fewer suggestions or no suggestions for a seed.

❓ FAQ

🔐 Does this use the official Youtube API?

No. It collects public Youtube autocomplete suggestions shown by Youtube search. You do not need to provide a Youtube account, cookies, OAuth, or API key.

🎬 Can it scrape Youtube videos or channels?

No. This Actor is only for Youtube keyword suggestions. Use a Youtube video, channel, transcript, or comments scraper when you need content rows instead of keyword ideas.

📈 Does it return search volume?

No. The output contains suggestions and source order, not search-volume or popularity metrics. This avoids inventing metrics that Youtube does not expose through this search surface.

🧺 Can I run many keywords at once?

Yes. Add multiple seed keywords and use the per-seed limit to control the run size.

📝 Changelog

• 0.1: Initial release.

🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests, file a ticket and I'll fix or implement it in less than 24h 🫡

🔗 Other actors

• YouTube Channel Search Scraper ↗ - Find public YouTube channels from search keywords.
• YouTube Channel Scraper ↗ - Export public YouTube channel profiles and recent video rows.
• YouTube Channel Statistics Scraper ↗ - Collect public statistics for YouTube channels.
• TikTok Keywords Discovery Tool ↗ - Collect TikTok autocomplete suggestions from seed keywords.
• Quora Search Scraper ↗ - Find public Quora question pages from search terms or direct URLs.

Made with ❤️ by Maxime Dupré