YouTube Scraper Pro: Videos, Channels, Comments & Transcripts
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$5.00 / 1,000 result items
Scrape YouTube videos, channels, playlists, shorts, and live streams. Each row ships engagement, transcripts, top comments with replies, chapters, most replayed heatmap, channel stats, related videos, and music credits. 16 regions. Pay per video.
You can access the YouTube Scraper Pro: Videos, Channels, Comments & Transcripts 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
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Leave blank for no upper bound.", "default": "" }, "extractTranscript": { "title": "Download transcript", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pull the auto generated or human written transcript. Each segment carries start time, duration, and text. Useful for AI summarization, content audits, and SEO research.", "default": false }, "transcriptLanguages": { "title": "Transcript languages", "type": "array", "description": "Preferred transcript language codes in priority order (e.g. en, es, de, ja, hi). The first available track is used. Leave default to take whatever YouTube serves first.", "default": [ "en" ], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "extractTopComments": { "title": "Extract top comments", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pull the top comments thread. 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Useful for content recommendation graphs.", "default": false }, "extractChannelStats": { "title": "Enrich with channel stats", "type": "boolean", "description": "Resolve subscriber count, total video count, joined date, country, and links for every distinct channel encountered. One extra page hit per channel.", "default": true }, "extractMusicAndCredits": { "title": "Extract music tracks and credits", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pull the music tracks panel (song title, artist, album, license) and the credit list (people, locations) if present.", "default": false }, "extractMostReplayed": { "title": "Extract most replayed heatmap", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pull the most replayed segment markers (timestamp + intensity 0 to 1). 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