Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

YouTube Scraper

Scrape YouTube videos, channels, playlists, Shorts, and comments. Search by keyword, channel URL, playlist URL, or video URL. No API key required — unlimited results.

Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Syed Rupom

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

3 days ago

Last modified

What it scrapes

Search — find videos by keyword with sort and date filters
Channel — scrape all videos from any YouTube channel
Playlist — extract videos from a playlist URL
Video — get full metadata for a specific video
Shorts — extract Shorts from a channel
Comments — scrape comments from any video
Subtitles / Transcripts — extract auto-generated or manual captions

Sample output

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
  "description": "The official video...",
  "channel_name": "Rick Astley",
  "channel_id": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/...",
  "view_count": 1400000000,
  "like_count": 16000000,
  "comment_count": 3200000,
  "subscriber_count": 4100000,
  "subscriber_text": "4.1M subscribers",
  "published_at": "2009-10-25",
  "duration": "3:33",
  "duration_secs": 213,
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "keywords": ["rick astley", "never gonna give you up"],
  "is_short": false,
  "subtitles": null
}

Input

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "queries": ["python tutorial for beginners"],
  "resultsPerQuery": 50,
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "uploadDateFilter": "any",
  "durationFilter": "any",
  "includeSubtitles": false,
  "enrichDetails": true,
  "minViews": 0,
  "minLikes": 0
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
`scrapeType`	string	`search`	Mode: `search`, `channel`, `playlist`, `video`, `shorts`, `comments`
`queries`	string[]	required	Keywords, URLs, or channel handles
`resultsPerQuery`	integer	50	Max results per query (up to 5,000 for channels/playlists)
`sortBy`	string	`relevance`	`relevance`, `upload_date`, `view_count`, `rating`
`uploadDateFilter`	string	`any`	`any`, `hour`, `today`, `week`, `month`, `year`
`durationFilter`	string	`any`	`any`, `short` (<4 min), `medium` (4–20 min), `long` (>20 min)
`enrichDetails`	boolean	true	Fetch real like count, comment count, and subscriber count via internal API
`includeSubtitles`	boolean	false	Extract full video transcript/captions
`minViews`	integer	0	Filter out videos with fewer views
`minLikes`	integer	0	Filter out videos with fewer likes

Scrape type reference

`scrapeType`	`queries` format	Example
`search`	Keywords	`"machine learning"`
`channel`	Channel URL or handle	`"https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"`
`playlist`	Playlist URL	`"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=..."`
`video`	Video URL	`"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..."`
`shorts`	Channel URL	`"https://www.youtube.com/@channel"`
`comments`	Video URL	`"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..."`

Use cases

Competitor channel analysis with subscriber and engagement data
Content research: find top videos by topic with real like/comment counts
Influencer discovery with subscriber and view metrics
AI/LLM pipelines: bulk extract transcripts for training or summarization
Social listening: monitor comments on brand-related videos

Notes

No proxy needed — YouTube allows datacenter IPs
enrichDetails: true adds ~150ms per video for real engagement stats
Channel and playlist scraping supports up to 5,000 results via continuation tokens
Subtitles available for videos with auto-generated or manual captions

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 results — no API key costs, no quota limits. Competitors charge $2.40/1K.

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