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YouTube Search Scraper & API: Videos, Channels, Playlists

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Scrape YouTube search results for any keyword: videos, Shorts, channels and playlists with every YouTube filter, newest first (YouTube dropped that sort), without Shorts on request, by country. Exact views, dates, channels. A YouTube Data API alternative without quota or key.

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Superior Actors

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🔍 Search queries

searchQueries

Required

Keywords to search on YouTube, one per line, exactly as you would type them.

Type:array

🎞️ Result type

resultType

Optional

What to search for, like the Type filter on YouTube.

Type:string

Default:videos

Options:

videosshortschannelsplaylistsall

🔢 Max results per query

maxResults

Optional

How many results to return per query. YouTube lists up to about 500-700 for a query.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:50

↕️ Sort by

sortBy

Optional

YouTube removed sorting by upload date. Newest first reads three times more results (videos and Shorts) and sorts them by upload time; combine it with Upload date for the latest uploads.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancepopularnewest

📅 Upload date

uploadDate

Optional

Only videos uploaded in this period. Older videos that YouTube mixes in are removed.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

⏱️ Duration

duration

Optional

Video length, as the YouTube filter.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyshortmediumlong

✨ Features

features

Optional

Only videos with all of these features, as the YouTube filters.

Type:string[]

🚫 Exclude Shorts

excludeShorts

Optional

Drop Shorts from video results: only regular videos. Skipped Shorts are free.

Type:boolean

Default:false

👀 Minimum views

minViews

Optional

Only videos with at least this many views. Skipped videos are free.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

🌍 Country

country

Optional

Two-letter country the search runs from (us, gb, de, in, br...): results differ by country.

Type:string

Default:us

🔎 Exact video details

videoDetails

Optional

Open every video for likes, comment count, exact publish date, full description and channel subscribers. Slower, same price.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔔 Only new results

onlyNew

Optional

For scheduled runs. The first run returns the results and remembers the top 100; later runs return only videos that were not there before and were published since the previous run. Best with Upload date: This week.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🏷️ Monitor name

monitorName

Optional

Name of the memory used by Only new results. Use a different name for each task.

Type:string

Default:default

⚡ Parallel requests

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many requests to YouTube run at the same time.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:30

Default:10

🛡️ Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Requests go direct first and switch to Apify datacenter proxies when YouTube refuses them. The default works for most runs.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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