YouTube Scraper

Scrape YouTube search results, videos, channels, playlists, subtitles and AI transcripts. Pay-per-result pricing set below the big scrapers, same fields.

What it does

• Search terms: type keywords like you would in the YouTube search bar. Get videos, shorts and streams back with view counts, dates, channels.
• Direct URLs: paste a video, channel, playlist, or a /results?search_query= link.
• Full video details: title, description, view count, likes, comments count, subscriber count, duration, thumbnails, upload date.
• Channel info: description, links, subscriber count, total views, total videos, country, join date. Every video item carries the channel fields.
• Subtitles: download YouTube's own subtitles or auto-generated ones, in SRT, WebVTT, XML or plain text.
• AI transcript: videos without subtitles get transcribed by Whisper. The transcript lands in the key-value store, linked from each item via transcriptionUrl.
• AI summary and description: optional add-ons that write a short summary and a time-segmented description into the item.
• Filters: sort by relevance, rating, upload date or views. Filter by upload date (hour, day, week, month, year), type, length, and features like HD, 4K, live, subtitles/CC.
• Channel date range: only keep videos published after a date, absolute (2025-01-01) or relative (3 days).

Input

Either paste direct URLs or type search terms.

{
    "searchQueries": ["web scraping tutorials"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "maxResultsShorts": 10,
    "maxResultStreams": 0,
    "transcriptionAndSubtitle": "ALWAYS_SUBTITLES",
    "subtitlesLanguage": "en",
    "subtitlesFormat": "srt",
    "sortingOrder": "views",
    "dateFilter": "month"
}

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" },
        { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl" },
        { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6i60qoDQhQGaGbbg-4aSwXJvxOqO6o5e" }
    ],
    "maxResults": 50
}

maxResults, maxResultsShorts, maxResultStreams cap how many of each type come back per search term or per channel/playlist. Set a type to 0 to skip it. Direct video URLs are always scraped.

Output

Each item:

{
    "id": "CW7gfrTlr0Y",
    "title": "Stromae - Santé (Live)",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7gfrTlr0Y",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CW7gfrTlr0Y/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "viewCount": 35582192,
    "date": "2021-12-21",
    "likes": 512238,
    "channelName": "StromaeVEVO",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/...",
    "numberOfSubscribers": 6930000,
    "duration": "00:03:17",
    "commentsCount": 14,
    "text": "...description...",
    "subtitles": [{ "type": "auto_generated", "language": "en", "srt": "1\n00:00:00,320 --> ..." }],
    "transcriptionUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/transcription-...",
    "aiVideoSummary": "...",
    "aiVideoDescription": [{ "startSecond": 0, "endSecond": 81, "displayTime": "00:00:00 - 00:01:21", "description": "..." }],
    "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=..."
}

Failed inputs produce an error item instead of being dropped:

{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@badchannel", "input": "@badchannel", "error": "CHANNEL_DOES_NOT_EXIST", "note": "Channel does not exist" }

Pricing

You only pay for results stored. No monthly fee, no minimum spend. Transcription and AI add-ons are optional and charged per use.

Notes

• No login, no cookies needed. Runs on YouTube's own internal API plus a hardened audio pipeline for transcripts.
• Subtitles download goes through yt-dlp under the hood, so it stays working when YouTube changes their caption endpoints.