YouTube Channel Scraper
Pricing
from $0.45 / 1,000 direct video results
Extract videos from YouTube channels, video URLs, or keyword searches. Choose basic data or full metadata with available transcripts, channel profiles, and links. Export JSON, CSV, or Excel with result-based pricing.
Add public channel handles or URLs, regular video URLs, or search terms. Turn on Search by keyword when every entry is a search query. Basic mode also accepts video URLs and returns their title, thumbnail, and author. Playlist and individual Shorts URLs are not supported.
Maximum videos to collect from each entry. A direct video URL returns one video.
Video details + transcripts automatically retries missing captions with residential proxy. Successful direct results cost $0.50/1,000; proxy-assisted results cost $8/1,000 instead, even if captions remain unavailable. Basic returns listing data without transcripts or proxy, at $0.50/1,000. Paid-plan discounts apply. Choose advanced settings only to customize recovery. A missing transcript has an explanation in transcriptMessage.
Turn on to search every entry, including single words. Leave off for channel handles and video URLs.
Applies to explicit and automatically detected keyword searches. Limits how many videos from the same YouTube channel are returned for each keyword. Leave empty for no per-channel limit. Set 1 for creator discovery use cases.
Maximum videos processed in parallel. Default 20; memory pressure can temporarily reduce it. Lower this only when troubleshooting.
How many channel or keyword inputs to collect in parallel. Higher values can improve multi-input runs but can increase YouTube throttling risk.
Enabled: collect full metadata and available transcripts. Disabled: return faster basic listing results (URL, title, thumbnail, channel and visible listing metrics). Details-only fields remain null, with collectionMode=basic and detailsStatus=not_requested. See the Basic results dataset view.
Auto starts video extraction directly and uses proxy for blocked details or transcript recovery. Successful direct video results cost $0.50 per 1,000; results whose video requests or source collection use proxy cost $8 per 1,000 instead. All run platform usage is included in these result prices. Never disables proxy completely and keeps successful results at the direct rate. Always proxies collection and details. Captions are best effort in every mode. Recovery stops when its run-wide request or transfer allowance is exhausted or repeated attempts produce no usable results; see the run summary.
Limited recovery controls cost with an automatic retry cap. Recover every missing transcript attempts recovery for each eligible video, within spending, proxy-transfer, and per-video limits. YouTube may not expose captions for every video.
Auto starts each video directly. Proxy-first uses proxy for per-video requests and therefore uses the proxy-assisted result price. Proxy-backed source collection also makes its results proxy-assisted. Captions are not guaranteed.
Optional Apify Proxy settings. Leave empty with Auto mode unless you need custom proxy groups or country settings for fallback or Always mode.
Applies to explicit and automatically detected keyword searches. Keep at most one result from each YouTube channel per keyword, and deduplicate repeated video URLs across the run.
HTTP language preferences sent with each request, for example en-US,en;q=0.9. This nudges YouTube localization but does not guarantee localized results.
Maximum videos processed in parallel, up to 20. Lower values are respected. Memory pressure temporarily reduces active concurrency without cancelling in-flight work. Default memory is 1,024 MB; 512 MB remains supported. Proxy requests share a separate limit of 2. Fast HTTP detail concurrency takes precedence when both fields are supplied.
In standard mode, retry missing captions when coverage is poor, including a bounded early sample on large runs. Successful videos with actual proxy requests use the proxy-assisted result price. Disable this to avoid transcript-only proxy upgrades; choose Never use proxy to disable all proxy requests.
Maximum missing-transcript rows retried by adaptive recovery in standard mode. Leave empty for automatic caps: all rows for small runs, and up to 80 round-robin rows for larger runs. Lower it when runtime and proxy cost matter more than transcript coverage.
How many videos adaptive caption recovery processes in parallel. Defaults to 8 to overlap lightweight player requests, direct caption downloads, and dataset writes. The shared proxy limit remains 2 requests; increasing queued jobs beyond the default can delay results.
Compatibility option. Prefer Transcript mode = Aggressive. When enabled, videos that still miss transcripts after direct caption extraction are retried with Apify residential proxy.
Write completed rows while the run is still processing instead of waiting until the end. Keep enabled for larger runs so partial progress is preserved if a run times out.
Accepted for compatibility. Existing saved video IDs are always restored after a migration or restart to prevent duplicate results and charges. Start a new run for a fresh dataset.
