Ultimate YouTube Scraper — Videos, Transcripts & Comments
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from $2.00 / 1,000 video results
Scrape YouTube without an API key or limits. Extract video details, channel data, search results, Shorts, comments & replies, transcripts/subtitles and playlists — all in one actor. Auto-extracts emails & social links from channels. Export to JSON, CSV & Excel. Fast, bulk, no quotas.
type
Optional
Record type discriminator (varies by record kind).
id
Optional
YouTube video ID (present on video, short and stream records).
url
Optional
Canonical URL of the video, short or playlist.
title
Optional
Title of the video, short, playlist or transcript source.
description
Optional
Video or channel description text (may be truncated in list views).
viewCount
Optional
View count parsed to an integer.
viewCountText
Optional
Raw view count label as shown on YouTube (e.g. '1.2M views').
likes
Optional
Like count parsed to an integer (full video detail only).
likesText
Optional
Raw like button label (e.g. '12K').
duration
Optional
Video length: total seconds in full video detail, or 'MM:SS'/'HH:MM:SS' text in list results.
durationSeconds
Optional
Video length in seconds.
publishDate
Optional
Publish date (ISO 8601) from video microformat.
uploadDate
Optional
Upload date (ISO 8601) from video microformat.
date
Optional
Best-effort publish date (ISO 8601), derived from relative time text in list results.
publishedTimeText
Optional
Raw relative publish time (e.g. '3 days ago').
category
Optional
YouTube content category of the video.
keywords
Optional
Video tags/keywords list.
isLive
Optional
Whether the item is (or was) live content.
isLiveNow
Optional
Whether the video is currently live.
isPrivate
Optional
Whether the video is private.
isUnlisted
Optional
Whether the video is unlisted.
isFamilySafe
Optional
Whether the video or channel is marked family safe.
allowRatings
Optional
Whether ratings (likes) are enabled on the video.
thumbnailUrl
Optional
URL of the best available thumbnail image.
channelId
Optional
YouTube channel ID (UC...) of the owner.
channelName
Optional
Display name of the channel or author.
channelUrl
Optional
URL of the owning channel.
channelHandle
Optional
Channel @handle.
channelDescription
Optional
Full channel description / about text.
channelLocation
Optional
Channel country/location from the About panel.
channelJoinedDate
Optional
Channel join date text from the About panel.
channelTotalViews
Optional
Total lifetime view count of the channel.
channelTotalVideos
Optional
Total number of videos on the channel.
channelKeywords
Optional
Space-separated channel keywords from channel metadata.
channelAvatarUrl
Optional
URL of the channel avatar image.
channelBannerUrl
Optional
URL of the channel banner image.
channelLinks
Optional
External links listed on the channel About panel.
channelContacts
Optional
Emails, social profiles and other links auto-extracted from the channel description and links.
isChannelVerified
Optional
Whether the channel has a verification badge.
numberOfSubscribers
Optional
Channel subscriber count parsed to an integer.
availableCaptions
Optional
Language codes of caption tracks available for the video.
hasCaptions
Optional
Whether the video has any caption tracks.
descriptionContacts
Optional
Emails, social profiles and other links auto-extracted from the video description.
subtitles
Optional
Rendered subtitles in the requested format (srt, vtt, xml or plaintext) when subtitle download is enabled.
subtitlesLanguage
Optional
Language code of the subtitles attached to a video record.
subtitlesFormat
Optional
Format used to render the subtitles/transcript (srt, vtt, xml or plaintext).
transcriptText
Optional
Full transcript as a single plain-text string.
transcript
Optional
Timed transcript segments with start time, duration (seconds) and text.
language
Optional
Language code of the transcript track.
isAutoGenerated
Optional
Whether the transcript comes from an auto-generated (ASR) caption track.
videoId
Optional
Video ID a transcript or comment belongs to.
videoUrl
Optional
URL of the video a transcript belongs to.
index
Optional
Position of the video within a playlist (1-based).
isPlayable
Optional
Whether a playlist entry is currently playable.
playlistId
Optional
YouTube playlist ID.
playlistUrl
Optional
URL of the playlist.
playlistTitle
Optional
Title of the playlist a video belongs to.
playlistOwner
Optional
Channel name that owns the playlist.
playlistVideoCount
Optional
Number of videos in the playlist (from playlist metadata).
playlistViewCount
Optional
Total view count of the playlist.
videoCount
Optional
Number of videos in a playlist result (from list/search renderers).
cid
Optional
Comment ID.
comment
Optional
Comment text content.
voteCount
Optional
Number of likes on the comment parsed to an integer.
voteCountText
Optional
Raw like count label on the comment.
replyCount
Optional
Number of replies to the comment.
hasCreatorHeart
Optional
Whether the comment received a creator heart.
replyToCid
Optional
Parent comment ID for a reply record.
error
Optional
Error code when an input could not be scraped (e.g. CHANNEL_DOES_NOT_EXIST, INVALID_PLAYLIST, VIDEO_UNAVAILABLE, NO_TRANSCRIPT_AVAILABLE).
input
Optional
The original input URL or reference that produced an error record.
commentsCount
Optional
Total number of comments on the video.