YouTube Scraper API: Videos, Transcripts, Shorts & Channels
Pricing
from $1.70 / 1,000 videos
Scrape YouTube videos, Shorts and live streams from search results, channels and playlists, with the full transcript of each video at no extra cost. Exact views, likes, publish date, duration, tags and description. No API key, no quota, no login; also via MCP. $2 per 1,000 videos.
You can access the YouTube Scraper API: Videos, Transcripts, Shorts & Channels programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "searchQueries": ["web scraping tutorial"],10 "maxResults": 10,11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("sauliusautomatesit/youtube-scraper-api").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Scraper API: Videos, Transcripts, Shorts & Channels API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: