YouTube Scraper — Videos, Shorts & Channels
Pricing
$0.60 / 1,000 scraped youtube videos
Ultra-fast YouTube scraper powered by Google's internal InnerTube API. Extract search results, video metadata, shorts, view counts and ch.... Compatible Make.com, Zapier, n8n, Sheets & Webhooks. 256MB RAM & sub-second speed.
You can access the YouTube Scraper — Videos, Shorts & Channels programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "mode": "search",12 "searchKeywords": [13 "apify web scraping"14 ],15 "videoUrlsOrIds": [16 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kcaHAuGxmY"17 ],18 "channelUrlsOrHandles": [19 "@Apify"20 ],21 "sortBy": "relevance",22 "durationFilter": "all",23 "uploadDateFilter": "all",24 "maxResultsPerSearch": 40,25 "maxExecutionTimeSecs": 7526};27
28// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish29const run = await client.actor("rbbscrap/youtube-scraper").call(input);30
31// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)32console.log('Results from dataset');33console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);34const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();35items.forEach((item) => {36 console.dir(item);37});38
39// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Scraper — Videos, Shorts & Channels API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: