YouTube Shopping Scraper

YouTube Shopping Scraper extracts real product cards promoted by creators across channel stores, video merchandise shelves, tagged products and Shorts. Each result connects a product to the creator and video where it appeared, with its displayed merchant, product link, image and available price.

Use this YouTube product scraper to map creator partnerships, monitor merchandise ranges, identify affiliate products and build datasets of products mentioned in videos. Product titles come from the actual cards. Links found only in a description receive a separate confidence label and an empty title, so downstream analysis can distinguish verified cards from unverified links.

What YouTube Shopping Scraper collects

Channel Store tabs include creator merchandise and products from collaborating merchants. Store results retain the section title, such as “Just dropped” or “Featured”. If the same product appears in two sections, each placement remains a separate occurrence. Channels without a Store tab can still yield products from their videos.

Video merchandise shelves and tagged-product panels are combined into one row for each product in a video. The surfaces array records where that product appeared. When YouTube supplies timed tags, tag_segments contains every available start and end in seconds. A product displayed on both the shelf and in the player is delivered once for that video.

Shorts use their product cards and shopping panels. Their rows contain is_short: true, a Shorts URL and source_surface: short_product. Plain video IDs are treated as regular videos; supply a Shorts URL to request a Short explicitly.

Description links are optional and disabled by default. When enabled, external links are delivered as link_only occurrences unless they match an existing product card. Known social, newsletter and link-directory hosts are excluded, including their subdomains. Remaining links can point to sponsors, services or other websites. They do not prove that the destination is a specific retail product. The scraper never derives a product title or price from the wording of a link.

Input

Put mixed inputs in queries: channel handles such as @mkbhd, channel URLs, channel IDs, video URLs, eleven-character video IDs, Shorts URLs or search phrases. Each entry has its own product limit. Search phrases open videos carrying a shopping badge; channel scans inspect recent uploads because channels do not identify shopping products in their video lists.

Eleven-letter words in lowercase or with a single initial capital, such as electronics and Electronics, are searched as phrases. Supply a video URL if its ID has that word-like form.

The default max_products_per_input is 100. Set max_videos_per_channel to control how many recent videos are inspected per channel tab. The default is 30 for Videos and up to 30 for Shorts when Shorts are enabled. Set it to zero for a Store-only run. max_videos_per_search defaults to 20 shopping-marked videos for each search phrase.

Use include_store_tab, include_product_shelf, include_tagged_products and include_shorts to choose the card surfaces. Each defaults to true. Set include_description_links to true if low-confidence external description links are useful to your workflow. Set geo to the two-letter country code for the product market; the default is US. The language value is preserved in results, while source interface text is collected in English for consistent parsing.

The following input is also used in the recorded Store example:

{
  "queries": ["@mkbhd"],
  "max_videos_per_channel": 0
}

Collection automatically continues across inputs and large channel scans. The internal cursor field is normally managed by the actor. If a run reaches its available collection time, the summary records the remaining continuation and reports incomplete collection.

Output

The dataset contains one product occurrence per Store section or video binding. A product promoted in two different videos produces two rows. Repeating the same input also preserves its separate input position. The stable occurrence_id prevents continuation pages from delivering the same binding twice.

Core fields are title, url, image_url, country, price, currency, product_id, source and fetched_at. product_id is the Google offer identifier when YouTube provides it; Store cards and standalone merchandise cards may have no such identifier. occurrence_id has a different purpose: it identifies a placement rather than a global product.

Offer details include merchant_name, product_description, price_text, original_price, discount_text, reference_price_text, availability_text and cta_text. Original display text remains available beside numeric prices. Fields absent from the source are null, including prices on many Amazon cards and in markets where YouTube does not display a price. A missing price never becomes zero.

Attribution fields include product_url, final_product_url, product_domain, affiliate_network, affiliate_tag, utm_term_channel and commission_disclosed. Where an affiliate wrapper explicitly contains a destination URL, that destination is decoded locally. Short links are retained without a final destination. Creator links are not clicked to discover their destinations.

Video and creator context includes video_id, video_url, video_title, view_count, published_date, channel_id, channel_handle, channel_title, channel_url, channel_avatar and subscriber_count. Subscriber counts retain the precision of YouTube’s displayed abbreviations. Relative publication dates remain empty rather than being estimated.

source_surface, surfaces, discovery_confidence, is_short and tag_segments describe the evidence for each placement. asin and merchant_item_id are extracted only when explicitly present. This version does not provide retailer-derived GTINs, GS1 verification, brand inference, ratings, reviews or a comparison of prices across other sellers. enrichment_level is zero or one and describes whether a destination is available from the supplied link itself.

Output example

This is the first row of a real run on the video WaHwmSv1erM (input {"queries": ["WaHwmSv1erM"]}), collected on 2 October 2026. The same product appeared on the merch shelf and as a tagged product between second 31 and 55, so it is delivered once with both surfaces. The run returned 35 product rows.

{
  "source": "youtube-shopping-scraper",
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-02T13:27:05.176Z",
  "title": "Blink Outdoor 2K+ (newest model) - Wireless smart security camera, 2K video resolution, enhanced audio, long-lasting battery. Sync Module Core",
  "url": "https://www.lowes.com/pd/Blink-Outdoor2K-5CAM-Black/5016801981?user=shopping&feed=yes",
  "image_url": "https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQsDUkDFSn2e9tAzDVXWgxndAJpTpcvt5D45QPvt45orGglFjY",
  "country": "US",
  "price": 119.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "product_id": "16663594364602218020",
  "occurrence_id": "7293edca6c01a4a1",
  "product_url": "https://lowes.sjv.io/c/3586222/897039/12374?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lowes.com%2Fpd%2FBlink-Outdoor2K-5CAM-Black%2F5016801981%3Fuser%3Dshopping%26feed%3Dyes&subid1=YT3-3sPyMxt6E_ZYVyOghY5mA4iIyDksZYMLVjfyR1b-TwW-iP9RsKETA8Jzu8iFNuCLUl28WuR-0bBNR3dbPhQfYk2UQY1bWw",
  "final_product_url": "https://www.lowes.com/pd/Blink-Outdoor2K-5CAM-Black/5016801981?user=shopping&feed=yes",
  "product_domain": "lowes.com",
  "product_description": "See and hear more — better than ever. Battery-powered Outdoor 2K+ delivers sharp 2K video resolution, detailed 4x digital zoom, and crystal-clear two-way audio with advanced noise cancellation. Mount in minutes with no wires, no worries, no compromises. Blink Outdoor 2K+ (newest model) - Wireless smart security camera, 2K video resolution, enhanced audio, long-lasting battery. Sync Module Core",
  "price_text": "$119.99",
  "original_price": null,
  "discount_text": null,
  "reference_price_text": null,
  "availability_text": "Limited stock",
  "merchant_name": "Lowe's",
  "merchant_logo": "https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdpH7-eg9Sxa9xwp52szmeirTRxhi6DDpeftkBLQS44aV4rkI",
  "merchant_item_id": "5016801981",
  "asin": null,
  "affiliate_network": "impact",
  "affiliate_tag": "YT3-3sPyMxt6E_ZYVyOghY5mA4iIyDksZYMLVjfyR1b-TwW-iP9RsKETA8Jzu8iFNuCLUl28WuR-0bBNR3dbPhQfYk2UQY1bWw",
  "utm_term_channel": null,
  "commission_disclosed": true,
  "cta_text": "View on YouTube",
  "section_title": null,
  "surfaces": [
    "product_shelf",
    "tagged_product"
  ],
  "source_surface": "tagged_product",
  "discovery_confidence": "tag_card",
  "tag_segments": [
    {
      "start_seconds": 31,
      "end_seconds": 55
    }
  ],
  "video_id": "WaHwmSv1erM",
  "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHwmSv1erM",
  "video_title": "Best Amazon Prime Big Deal Days 2026 Early Deals [35 Deals You Can't Miss!]",
  "view_count": 7743,
  "published_date": "2026-10-01",
  "is_short": false,
  "channel_id": "UCPivGkDwFySKlZR_8nO8lGA",
  "channel_handle": "@validconsumer",
  "channel_title": "Valid Consumer",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPivGkDwFySKlZR_8nO8lGA",
  "subscriber_count": 129000,
  "channel_avatar": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/36CaF-NoSSP33SDfG_GOIjSZXwqO87m6B72UM2L4zJo5xFJOhCgHquA1xDLt_jdgtVXmJ-Y6=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
  "language": "en",
  "input": "WaHwmSv1erM",
  "enrichment_level": 1
}

Pricing

The intended publication model is pay per event: $4 per 1,000 delivered product occurrences, plus a $0.0001 actor start event. The live Pricing tab is authoritative once the actor is published. There are no identity-enrichment or market-comparison events in this version.

Each delivered dataset row corresponds to one product event. Combined shelf and tag appearances in the same video are billed as one occurrence. Enabled description-link rows count as occurrences too. Empty results and source warnings produce no product events; the platform start event still applies. Non-paying users receive at most ten rows per run. Paying users can request the configured limits across all their inputs.

Use cases

• Creator merch inventory: list every item in a creator's YouTube Store, grouped by section, to track drops and price changes.
• Brand and agency research: see which merchants, products and affiliate networks a creator promotes, and at which second of the video a product is tagged.
• Affiliate and partnership analysis: find which creators push products from a retailer or network, using merchant_name, product_domain and affiliate_network.
• Ecommerce and price monitoring: watch the prices and stock texts YouTube shows on shopping cards for products you sell.
• Shorts commerce: collect the products attached to Shorts, which most YouTube scrapers skip.

For a creator merchandise inventory, start with a channel and set the video limit to zero. For campaign research, supply a set of videos and compare merchants, affiliate networks and timed product placements. For discovery, use a focused search phrase, then retain tag_card and shelf_card rows for analysis. For broader sponsor research, enable description links and review link_only rows separately.

Always compare records within the same country. YouTube can select different merchants for different markets, and a price available in the US may be absent elsewhere. These are observations of YouTube’s shopping display at collection time, rather than a promise of the merchant’s current checkout price or stock. Review the summary warnings when a run reports partial collection.

Comparison with other YouTube product scrapers

	This actor	Channel store scrapers	Description-link discovery tools
Channel Store tab	yes, with section titles	yes	no
Merch shelf under videos	yes	no	yes
Tagged products with timestamps	yes, start and end seconds	no	no
Shorts product cards	yes	no	partly
Product titles	from the real card	from the real card	often guessed from link text
Numeric price and currency	yes, plus original display text	price text only	no
Merchant, ASIN, offer id	when YouTube shows them	merchant only	retailer domain
Affiliate network and decoded destination	yes	no	yes
Input	handles, channel URLs and IDs, videos, Shorts, search phrases	channel IDs	queries, channels, videos

A general YouTube scraper returns videos, comments or channel statistics. This YouTube shopping scraper focuses on the commerce layer: every product card a viewer can click, tied to the creator and the video.

FAQ

Does this YouTube merch shelf scraper include creator stores?

Yes. Store cards, video shelves, product tags and Shorts cards can be collected in the same run. Store sections remain identifiable on each row.

Why are some prices empty?

YouTube does not supply prices for every merchant or market. Amazon shopping cards frequently have no displayed price. Empty source prices remain null in the dataset.

Can I use this as a YouTube affiliate scraper?

Yes. The original attribution link, detected affiliate network and available tracking tag are retained. Destination URLs embedded in known wrappers are decoded without visiting those links.

Which description links are excluded?

Known social, newsletter and link-directory hosts are skipped: Patreon, Linktree, Kit/ConvertKit, Substack, Spotify, Twitch, Threads and Reddit, alongside YouTube, Google, Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok and Discord. This also applies to their subdomains. Product short links and merchant links remain available as link_only rows, with no guessed title or price.

Do all YouTube tagged products have timestamps?

Only products with explicit time windows receive populated tag_segments. A product-list card without a timed tag remains useful evidence but has an empty segment array.

Do I need a YouTube account or API key?

No. The actor reads the public shopping cards that any viewer sees. You only supply channels, videos, Shorts or search phrases.

What happens if a channel handle does not exist?

That input returns no rows and is not billed. The run summary records a "not found" warning for it, and the other inputs in the same run are still collected.

Is this a separate actor from a regular YouTube scraper?

Yes. Video, comment and channel data are covered by general YouTube scrapers. This actor returns only products, so you pay per product row and not for videos without shopping cards.

Does this actor verify EANs or compare other merchants?

No. This version collects shopping-card data and locally available link information. It does not claim a barcode, retailer identity or market price that YouTube has not supplied.