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YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper

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First 25 videos free. YouTube outlier videos finder + AI video research: each video scored 0-100 against your brief, views vs its channel, grounded takeaways and brand mentions. Pay only for qualified videos. Any Apify plan with your own free YouTube API key.

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from $4.00 / 1,000 qualified video (rules only)s

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Rich Minds

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You can access the YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

# Set API token
$API_TOKEN=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>

# Prepare Actor input
$cat > input.json << 'EOF'
<{
<  "sourceMode": "list",
<  "researchBrief": "Beginner-friendly Python web scraping tutorials (requests, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Playwright) that teach a complete project step by step",
<  "searchQueries": [
<    "python web scraping tutorial",
<    "beautifulsoup tutorial",
<    "scrapy tutorial for beginners"
<  ],
<  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30,
<  "maxDiscoveryChargeUsd": 0.5,
<  "discoveryInput": {},
<  "proxyConfiguration": {
<    "useApifyProxy": false
<  },
<  "itemsList": [
<    {
<      "id": "k3Vq9TzP1aE",
<      "title": "Web Scraping with Python - BeautifulSoup Tutorial for Beginners",
<      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Vq9TzP1aE",
<      "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k3Vq9TzP1aE/maxresdefault.jpg",
<      "viewCount": 312450,
<      "date": "8 months ago",
<      "likes": 9870,
<      "commentsCount": 412,
<      "duration": "24:18",
<      "channelName": "Code with Mira",
<      "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@codewithmira",
<      "numberOfSubscribers": 48200,
<      "channelTotalVideos": 96,
<      "channelLocation": "Canada",
<      "isMonetized": true,
<      "commentsTurnedOff": false,
<      "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=python+web+scraping+tutorial",
<      "text": "Learn web scraping with Python from zero: we download a page with requests, parse it with BeautifulSoup and save the results to CSV. Perfect if you have never scraped a website before.\n\n00:00 Intro\n01:12 Installing requests and BeautifulSoup\n05:40 Finding elements with CSS selectors\n14:05 Handling pagination\n21:30 Saving to CSV\n\n#python #webscraping #beautifulsoup",
<      "subtitles": [
<        {
<          "language": "en",
<          "type": "auto_generated",
<          "srt": "1\n00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,500\nin this video we build a web scraper in Python from scratch\n\n2\n00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000\nfirst install requests and BeautifulSoup with pip\n\n3\n00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,000\nBeautifulSoup lets you find elements with CSS selectors\n\n4\n00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,000\nto handle pagination we follow the next page link in a loop\n\n5\n00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:35,000\nfinally we write every product row to a CSV file"
<        }
<      ]
<    },
<    {
<      "id": "Rw8nD2xYp4Q",
<      "title": "Build a Price Tracker in Python (requests + BeautifulSoup) - Full Project",
<      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8nD2xYp4Q&list=PLx9sampleplaylist&index=3",
<      "viewCount": 41700,
<      "date": "3 weeks ago",
<      "likes": 2150,
<      "commentsCount": 133,
<      "duration": "38:05",
<      "channelName": "Byte Sized Dev",
<      "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@bytesizeddev",
<      "numberOfSubscribers": 8900,
<      "channelTotalVideos": 41,
<      "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=python+web+scraping+tutorial",
<      "text": "A complete beginner project: a Python price tracker that checks a product page every day and emails you when the price drops. Step by step with requests, BeautifulSoup and a scheduler.\n\n00:00 What we build\n03:20 Scraping the price\n17:45 Storing history\n29:10 Email alerts",
<      "subtitles": [
<        {
<          "language": "en",
<          "type": "auto_generated",
<          "srt": "today we build a complete price tracker project step by step\nwe fetch the product page with requests\nthen BeautifulSoup pulls the price out of the HTML\nwe store every price in a small SQLite table\nand send an email when the price drops below your target"
<        }
<      ]
<    },
<    {
<      "id": "Tq4LmZ8sV0c",
<      "title": "Scrapy vs Playwright vs BeautifulSoup: which Python scraper should you use?",
<      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq4LmZ8sV0c",
<      "viewCount": 88300,
<      "date": "2026-07-02",
<      "likes": 3410,
<      "commentsCount": 198,
<      "duration": "16:42",
<      "channelName": "DataLane",
<      "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@datalane",
<      "numberOfSubscribers": 126000,
<      "channelTotalVideos": 212,
<      "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beautifulsoup+tutorial",
<      "text": "Three Python scraping tools compared on the same site: speed, JavaScript support and how much code each needs. Which one should a beginner learn first?"
<    },
<    {
<      "id": "Hy7cXe2KkPs",
<      "title": "Playwright Python Tutorial: Scrape JavaScript Websites",
<      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy7cXe2KkPs",
<      "viewCount": 57900,
<      "date": "5 months ago",
<      "likes": 1890,
<      "commentsCount": 76,
<      "duration": "19:57",
<      "channelName": "Automate Everything",
<      "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@automateeverything",
<      "numberOfSubscribers": 212000,
<      "channelTotalVideos": 318,
<      "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beautifulsoup+tutorial",
<      "text": "When requests and BeautifulSoup return an empty page, the site renders with JavaScript. This tutorial shows how Playwright for Python opens a real browser, waits for the content and extracts it."
<    },
<    {
<      "id": "Lf0BeatsM1x",
<      "title": "lofi beats to code to - 3 hour mix",
<      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf0BeatsM1x",
<      "viewCount": 902000,
<      "date": "1 year ago",
<      "likes": 21400,
<      "commentsCount": 640,
<      "duration": "3:02:11",
<      "channelName": "Chill Hours",
<      "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@chillhours",
<      "numberOfSubscribers": 1450000,
<      "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=python+web+scraping+tutorial",
<      "text": "Three hours of calm lofi beats for coding and studying."
<    },
<    {
<      "id": "Sh0rtPy1lnR",
<      "title": "One-line Python scraper #shorts",
<      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sh0rtPy1lnR",
<      "viewCount": 120500,
<      "date": "2 weeks ago",
<      "likes": 6100,
<      "duration": "0:45",
<      "channelName": "Byte Sized Dev",
<      "numberOfSubscribers": 8900,
<      "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=python+web+scraping+tutorial"
<    },
<    {
<      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx0Unavail1",
<      "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx0Unavail1",
<      "error": "VIDEO_UNAVAILABLE",
<      "note": "Video unavailable"
<    }
<  ]
<}
<EOF

# Run the Actor using an HTTP API
# See the full API reference at https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
$curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rich_minds~youtube-video-research-ai/runs?token=$API_TOKEN" \
<  -X POST \
<  -d @input.json \
<  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper API

Below, you can find a list of relevant HTTP API endpoints for calling the YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper Actor. For this, you’ll need an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the URLs with your Apify API token, which you can find under API & Integrations in Apify Console. For details, see the API reference.

Run Actor

POST
https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rich_minds~youtube-video-research-ai/runs?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>

Note: By adding the method=POST query parameter, this API endpoint can be called using a GET request and thus used in third-party webhooks. Please refer to our Run Actor API documentation.

Run Actor synchronously and get dataset items

POST
https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rich_minds~youtube-video-research-ai/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>

Note: This endpoint supports both POST and GET request methods. However, only the POST method allows you to pass input data. For more information, please refer to our Run Actor synchronously and get dataset items API documentation.

Get Actor

GET
https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rich_minds~youtube-video-research-ai?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>

For more information, please refer to our Get Actor API documentation.

Actors can be used to scrape web pages, extract data, or automate browser tasks. Use the YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper API programmatically via the Apify API.

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You can start YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper with the Apify API by sending an HTTP POST request to the Run Actorendpoint. An Actor’s input and its content type can be passed as a payload of the POST request, and additional options can be specified using URL query parameters. The YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper is identified within the API by its ID, which is the creator’s username and the name of the Actor.

When the YouTube Outlier Videos Finder - AI Video Research & Scraper run finishes you can list the data from its default dataset(storage) via the API or you can preview the data directly on Apify Console.

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