Youtube Search

YouTube Search Scraper

A powerful Apify Actor for scraping YouTube search results using the YouTube internal API. This Actor allows you to search YouTube with multiple queries and extract detailed video information without getting blocked, thanks to Apify proxy integration.

Features

• Search YouTube with multiple queries
• Extract detailed video information including:
  • Video ID, title, and URL
  • Video description snippet
  • Channel name and URL
  • View count and publish date
  • Video duration
  • Thumbnail URL
• Configurable maximum results per query
• Built-in Apify proxy support to avoid rate limiting
• Fast and efficient using YouTube's internal API

Input

{
  "queries": [
    "apify tutorial",
    "web scraping python",
    "youtube api tutorial"
  ],
  "max_results": 20,
  "use_proxy": true
}

Input Parameters

• queries (required): Array of search queries to scrape
• max_results (optional): Maximum number of results per query (1-100, default: 20)
• use_proxy (optional): Use Apify proxy to avoid blocking (default: true)

Output

Each video result contains:

{
  "query": "apify tutorial",
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Complete Apify Tutorial",
  "description": "Learn how to use Apify...",
  "view_count": 1234567,
  "length_text": "15 minutes, 30 seconds",
  "length_in_minutes": 15.5,
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/...",
  "channel_name": "Tech Channel",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/...",
  "published_time": "2025-10-16T12:34:56.789012"
}

Output Fields

• query: The search query used
• video_id: YouTube video ID
• url: Full YouTube video URL
• title: Video title
• description: Video description snippet
• view_count: Numeric view count (parsed from text like "1,234,567 views" or "1.2M views")
• length_text: Video duration in readable format (e.g., "15 minutes, 30 seconds")
• length_in_minutes: Video duration in minutes as a float (e.g., 15.5)
• thumbnail_url: URL to video thumbnail image
• channel_name: Channel/creator name
• channel_url: URL to the channel
• published_time: ISO 8601 formatted approximate publish date (parsed from text like "2 weeks ago")