YouTube Search Scraper – results, views, filters · $0.50 per 1,000 results

Scrape YouTube search results without an API key, quota or login. Use YouTube's own filters — upload date (last hour → this year), duration and sort by views — and get videos, channels or playlists with views, duration, channel, publish time and thumbnail. Turn on Full video details for likes, comment count, exact publish date, full description, tags and category at the same price.

The YouTube Data API allows about 100 searches a day on its free quota; this Actor has no quota.

What you get

Per video: title, url, id, viewCount, duration, durationSeconds, publishedTimeText, channelName, channelUrl, channelVerified, thumbnailUrl, descriptionSnippet, badges, isLive, searchQuery — and with details: likeCount, commentCount, publishedAt, description, hashtags, keywords, category, channelSubscriberCount.

Per channel / playlist result: name, URL, subscribers or video count as shown in the results.

Real runs — 3 November 2026

Search	Results	Run time	Price
"home workout", this week, sorted by views	100 videos	52 s	$0.05
"ai agents tutorial", with full details	50 videos (40 with a like count)	10 min 30 s	$0.025

Most viewed result of the second run: AI Agents, Clearly Explained — 5,615,575 views, 117,790 likes, 3,000 comments, published 8 April 2025. Full details open every video page, so they take longer than a plain search.

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 results, cheaper on paid Apify plans; details included. Searches with no results are free. Compared on 3 November 2026: api-ninja/youtube-search-scraper $5.00 per 1,000, grow_media/youtube-search-api $1.00, streamers/youtube-scraper $4.00.

Input examples

Most viewed videos of the week:

{ "searchQueries": ["home workout"], "uploadDate": "week", "sortBy": "views", "maxResults": 100 }

Newest videos (monitoring every hour):

{ "searchQueries": ["iphone", "pixel"], "uploadDate": "hour", "maxResults": 50 }

Long tutorials with likes and comments:

{ "searchQueries": ["python tutorial"], "duration": "long", "includeVideoDetails": true, "maxResults": 50 }

Channels in a niche:

{ "searchQueries": ["vegan recipes"], "resultType": "channel", "maxResults": 100 }

Results as seen in France:

{ "searchQueries": ["recette facile"], "country": "FR", "language": "fr" }

Use cases

• SEO and content research: what ranks on YouTube for your keywords, with views and length.
• Trend monitoring: newest videos on a topic every hour or day.
• Influencer discovery: channels that appear for your niche.
• Ad and brand research: who publishes about your brand or competitors.

Who this is not for

• You need whole channels → YouTube Channel Scraper.
• You need only Shorts → YouTube Shorts Scraper.
• You need sorting by upload date — YouTube removed it; use the Upload date filter.

For AI agents (MCP)

Use rt-solutions/youtube-search-scraper through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). Example: "Find the 20 most viewed videos about home workouts uploaded this week." Minimal input: {"searchQueries": ["<topic>"]}; add uploadDate for freshness and includeVideoDetails: true for engagement.

FAQ

How do I scrape YouTube search results without the API? Enter search terms and run — no key or quota.

How do I get the newest videos? Set Upload date to hour, today or week.

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 search results? $5, details included.

Can I filter by length? Yes: under 4 minutes, 4–20 minutes, over 20 minutes.

Can I get likes and comment counts? Yes — Full video details.

Limits

• Comment counts are rounded the way YouTube shows them (e.g. 11K).
• When YouTube limits its video player for a while, details still include views, likes, comments, date and description, but category and keywords may be empty.
• Business emails of channels are hidden by YouTube behind a login and are not collected.

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