🎬 YouTube Scraper

🚀 Collect YouTube videos, channels, and playlist data in minutes. Search by keyword, paste playlist URLs, or channel handles. Export video stats, metadata, thumbnails, and channel profiles. No coding, no YouTube API key.

The YouTube Scraper collects video and channel data from YouTube, returning 25+ fields per video: title, view count, like count, comment count, duration, upload date, channel name, subscriber count, description, thumbnails, and video URL. Supports search queries, playlist URLs, video URLs, and channel handles. Runs support up to 1,000,000 items on a paid plan.

The Actor supports keyword search with filters (sort order, upload date, duration, video type, features) and direct playlist URL scraping. No YouTube Data API key needed.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Content creators, marketers, market researchers, media agencies, data analysts, academic researchers	Trend research, competitor analysis, content strategy, playlist monitoring, channel benchmarking, audience research

📋 What the YouTube Scraper does

Two input modes with search filters:

• 🔍 Search mode. Keywords, video URLs, or channel handles as search queries.
• 📋 Playlist mode. Paste playlist URLs to extract all videos in order.
• 📊 Sort options. Relevance, upload date, view count, rating.
• 📅 Upload date filter. Last hour, today, this week, this month, this year.
• ⏱️ Duration filter. Short (<4 min), medium (4-20 min), long (>20 min).
• 🎬 Video type filter. Video, channel, playlist, movie.
• 🏷️ Feature filters. Live, 4K, subtitles, Creative Commons, 360, VR180, HDR, location.

Each video record includes title, URL, channel name, channel URL, subscriber count, view count, like count, comment count, duration, upload date, description, thumbnails, and tags.

💡 Why it matters: manually researching YouTube trends, competitor channels, or content strategies means clicking through search results and playlists page by page. This Actor exports structured video data at scale, ready for your dashboards, content calendars, or trend reports.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: channelId, channelName, channelUrl, duration, durationText, id, isLive, isShort, publishedAt, publishedTimeText, scrapedAt, thumbnailUrl, title, transcriptAvailable, type, url, viewCount, viewCountText. All 18 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: YouTube search results are personalized by region and account. This Actor uses a neutral, logged-out view for consistent results across runs.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the YouTube Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter search keywords or paste playlist URLs. Set filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube, Google LLC, or Alphabet Inc. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available video metadata is collected.

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