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YouTube Scraper: Attention Queue, Breakout Detection

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Scrapes YouTube channels, videos, playlists and search. Breakout detection, momentum scoring, attention routing, watchlist deltas. Drop-in from streamers/youtube-scraper. 60% cheaper. $2/1k records.

Pricing

from $1.14 / 1,000 record emitteds

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Developer

Ryan Clinton

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

10 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

Videos

Social media

Mode

mode

Required

Entry point for the run. Channels takes handles or IDs. Videos takes URLs or IDs. Playlists takes playlist URLs. Search takes a query string. Shorts takes handles and returns recent shorts.

Type:string

Default:search

Options:

channelsvideosplaylistssearchshorts

Channels

channels

Optional

Channel handles (@mkbhd), channel IDs (UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ), or full channel URLs. Used when mode is 'channels' or 'shorts'.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Max recent videos per channel

maxRecentVideosPerChannel

Optional

Cap on recent uploads scraped per channel in channels mode. Higher values produce stronger signal detection but slower runs.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:50

Include shorts in channel video list

includeShortsInVideoList

Optional

Pull shorts alongside long-form uploads when fetching a channel's recent videos.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include transcripts

includeTranscripts

Optional

Fetch transcripts for sampled videos. Slows the run but enables richer topic detection and comment-theme grounding.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Videos

videos

Optional

Video URLs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...) or bare 11-character video IDs. Used when mode is 'videos'.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Enrich parent channel for each video

enrichChannel

Optional

In videos mode, additionally fetch the parent channel of each video so per-video signals (breakout_video, vsChannelBaseline) have a real channel baseline to score against.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include transcript per video

includeTranscript

Optional

Fetch the transcript for each video (videos mode).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include comments sample

includeCommentsSample

Optional

Sample top-level comments for each video. Required for commentSynthesis themes and audience-expansion detection.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Comments sample size per video

commentsSamplePerVideo

Optional

Number of top-level comments to sample per video. 30 enables commentSynthesis themes. 0 disables comment sampling.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:500

Default:0

Playlists

playlists

Optional

Playlist URLs (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...). Used when mode is 'playlists'.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Max videos per playlist

maxVideosPerPlaylist

Optional

Cap on videos pulled per playlist.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:100

Search query

searchQuery

Optional

Search query string. Used when mode is 'search'.

Type:string

Default:

Video type filter (search)

videoType

Optional

Restrict search to a single result type.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyvideoshortliveplaylistchannel

Country (search)

country

Optional

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the search geo, e.g. US, GB, DE.

Type:string

Default:US

Language (search)

language

Optional

ISO 639-1 language code for the search, e.g. en, es, ja.

Type:string

Default:en

Date range (search)

dateRange

Optional

Restrict search to recent uploads.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anythis_hourtodaythis_weekthis_monththis_year

Upload order (search)

uploadOrder

Optional

YouTube's native ordering before reranking. 'relevance' is the default YouTube ordering; 'date' sorts by upload date.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedateviewCountrating

Rank by (search reranking)

rankBy

Optional

Reranking axis applied on top of YouTube's native ordering. 'breakoutPotential' surfaces channels that are accelerating right now. 'relevance' keeps YouTube's order.

Type:string

Default:breakoutPotential

Options:

relevancebreakoutPotentialmomentumrecencyengagement

Max results (search)

maxResults

Optional

Cap on search results emitted, regardless of YouTube's native page size.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:50

Max shorts per channel (shorts mode)

maxShortsPerChannel

Optional

Cap on shorts pulled per channel.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:50

Oldest post date (shorts mode)

oldestPostDate

Optional

Drop shorts published before this date (ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd). Leave blank for no lower bound.

Type:string

Default:

Output profile

outputProfile

Optional

Field shape. 'signals' is the default and includes the signal layer on every record. 'compat' returns the exact streamers/youtube-scraper field set for migration verification. 'substrate' returns substrate + raw fields only. 'research' adds evidence + provenance. 'llm' is a compact NL summary. 'minimal' is IDs and URLs only.

Type:string

Default:signals

Options:

substratesignalsresearchllmminimalcompat

Watchlist name (enables delta intelligence)

watchlistName

Optional

When set, the run is scoped to a persistent watchlist. The actor reads the prior baseline from a named KV store, computes deltas, and writes the new baseline back. Use the same name for daily scheduled runs to get a monitoring feed.

Type:string

Default:

Enable LLM comment-theme synthesis

enableCommentThemes

Optional

When enabled and a groq API key is supplied, comment samples are passed through Llama 3.1 8B for theme naming. When disabled (or no key supplied), falls back to lexicon-only theme detection. Both paths produce commentSynthesis.themes; the LLM path produces sharper labels.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Groq API key (optional)

groqApiKey

Optional

Optional groq API key for comment-theme naming. If absent, comment theme labels fall back to deterministic lexicon clustering. Stored as a secret.

Type:string

Rate limit per second

rateLimitPerSecond

Optional

Upper bound on requests per second across all YouTube calls. Default is conservative to avoid bot-blocks.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10

Default:2

Circuit breaker threshold

circuitBreakerThreshold

Optional

Number of consecutive bot-blocked responses before the run halts. Lower values are safer for paid accounts.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20

Default:3

Runtime budget (seconds)

runtimeBudgetSeconds

Optional

Soft runtime cap. The actor exits cleanly with partial results and truncated=true when this is exceeded, instead of getting hard-killed by Apify's timeout mid-emit. Auto-clamped against APIFY_TIMEOUT_AT minus a maxResults-scaled emit reserve so the dataset always finishes pushing. Default 3000 (50min).

Type:integer

Minimum:60

Maximum:21600

Default:3000

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify proxy configuration. Defaults to RESIDENTIAL with US rotation, which is what YouTube tolerates best.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": [
    "RESIDENTIAL"
  ],
  "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
}

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