YouTube Video & Channel Signals Scraper API

YouTube scraper API for extracting structured video details, channel information, uploads, search results, comments, and subtitles from one Apify Actor. Use it for content intelligence, competitor monitoring, video research, audience analysis, transcription workflows, and AI agents.

What this YouTube scraper extracts

• Video details by ID or full URL
• Channel information and channel video feeds
• Keyword-based video search with localization
• Video comments with continuation tokens
• Subtitle content with format and language options

Each target produces a structured dataset row. Each successful target costs $0.0035; failed targets become uncharged error rows.

Example input

{
  "operation": "video",
  "targets": ["dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "countryCode": "US",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "includeRaw": false,
  "failOnError": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}

Operation	Target format
video	Video ID or full YouTube URL
channel, channel_videos	Channel ID
search	Search keyword
comments	Video ID
subtitles	Subtitle URL returned by video details

Output and API use

The default dataset contains product, platform, operation, target, endpoint, success, requestId, fetchedAt, latencyMs, data, and error.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/oneary~youtube-video-channel-signals-scraper-api/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @examples/input.json

Reliability and security

• The Actor respects the maximum charge selected for each run.
• Concurrency is bounded between 1 and 10.
• Credentials are read only from environment variables.
• Localized country and language controls remain explicit.
• Failed targets remain machine-readable for safe retries.

Use the Actor only for lawful, authorized data workflows and follow applicable platform terms, privacy rules, and retention requirements.

Development

npm test
npm run lint
npm run typecheck
npm run validate:actor
npm run build