Pricing

Pay per usage

YouTube Scraper Pro: Videos, Channels, Comments & Transcripts

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.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Kennedy Mutisya

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

a day ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

Search terms

searchTerms

Optional

YouTube search queries. Each term runs an independent search. Combine with sortBy, uploadDate, duration, and features filters below.

Type:array

Default:

[]

YouTube URLs

startUrls

Optional

Mix any of: video URL (/watch?v= or youtu.be/), channel URL (/@handle, /channel/UC..., /c/, /user/), playlist URL (/playlist?list=), shorts URL (/shorts/), hashtag URL (/hashtag/), or search results URL (/results?search_query=).

Type:array

Default:

[]

Direct video IDs

videoIds

Optional

11 character YouTube video IDs (e.g. dQw4w9WgXcQ). Fastest input mode. Skip the listing crawl and fetch each video directly.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Channel handles

channelHandles

Optional

Channel handles like @MrBeast or @veritasium. Pulls the channel's video catalog up to maxVideosPerChannel. Combine with dateFrom or dateTo to slice the catalog by upload date.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Max videos per search term

maxVideosPerSearch

Optional

Cap on regular videos returned per search. 0 means everything YouTube exposes (typically up to a few hundred).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:50

Max shorts per search term

maxShortsPerSearch

Optional

Cap on shorts returned per search. 0 disables shorts in search results.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:0

Max live streams per search term

maxStreamsPerSearch

Optional

Cap on live streams returned per search. 0 disables live results.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:0

Max videos per channel

maxVideosPerChannel

Optional

Cap on videos pulled per channel handle or channel URL. Older catalogs scroll deep, so this is the safest knob to control cost.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10000

Default:100

Max videos per playlist

maxVideosPerPlaylist

Optional

Cap on videos pulled per playlist URL.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10000

Default:200

Upload date filter

uploadDate

Optional

Restrict search results by recency. Applies to searchTerms only.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Duration filter

duration

Optional

Restrict search results by length. Applies to searchTerms only.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyshortmediumlong

Sort search results

sortBy

Optional

Sort order for searchTerms. Default is relevance.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevanceuploadDateviewCountrating

Feature filters

features

Optional

Restrict search to videos with these features. Multiple values stack. Applies to searchTerms only.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Date from (channel + playlist scraping)

dateFrom

Optional

ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Drops videos uploaded before this date when crawling channels or playlists. Leave blank for no lower bound.

Type:string

Default:

Date to (channel + playlist scraping)

dateTo

Optional

ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). Drops videos uploaded after this date when crawling channels or playlists. Leave blank for no upper bound.

Type:string

Default:

Download transcript

extractTranscript

Optional

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.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Transcript languages

transcriptLanguages

Optional

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.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "en"
]

Extract top comments

extractTopComments

Optional

Pull the top comments thread. Each comment carries author, channel ID, text, like count, reply count, posted time, and pinned or hearted flag.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max comments per video

maxComments

Optional

Cap on top level comments returned per video. Ignored if extractTopComments is off.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:50

Extract comment replies

extractCommentReplies

Optional

Walk into each top level comment and pull the first batch of replies. Adds latency. Off by default.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Extract chapters

extractChapters

Optional

Pull the chapter timeline if the creator added one (or YouTube auto generated one). Each chapter has title, start time, and thumbnail.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Extract related videos

extractRelatedVideos

Optional

Pull the up next sidebar (video ID, title, channel, view count). Useful for content recommendation graphs.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Enrich with channel stats

extractChannelStats

Optional

Resolve subscriber count, total video count, joined date, country, and links for every distinct channel encountered. One extra page hit per channel.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Extract music tracks and credits

extractMusicAndCredits

Optional

Pull the music tracks panel (song title, artist, album, license) and the credit list (people, locations) if present.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Extract most replayed heatmap

extractMostReplayed

Optional

Pull the most replayed segment markers (timestamp + intensity 0 to 1). Lets analysts find the highest engagement moments programmatically.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Extract direct stream URLs

extractStreamUrls

Optional

Capture available video and audio stream URLs and bitrates from the player response. Some streams are signed and time bounded.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Extract end screens and cards

extractEndScreens

Optional

Pull end screen elements and info cards. Useful for cross promotion analysis on creator networks.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Region (gl)

region

Optional

Two letter country code passed as gl. Affects which results YouTube returns and which currency monetary fields show.

Type:string

Default:US

Options:

USGBCAAUDEFRITESNLSEPLTRBRMXJPKRINID

Interface language (hl)

language

Optional

Two letter language code passed as hl. Affects which language YouTube renders metadata in.

Type:string

Default:en

Options:

enesfrdeitptjakozhhiarrutrnlplsv

Deduplicate across runs

dedupe

Optional

Skip video IDs already pushed in previous runs. Turn off to refresh stale rows.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Concurrency

concurrency

Optional

Number of pages processed in parallel. Three to five is safe. Higher values trigger consent walls and rate limits.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:16

Default:4

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify proxy. Datacenter is fine for YouTube at modest volume. Switch to residential if consent or age gates appear.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": []
}

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