YouTube Video & Channel Scraper

Get YouTube data as clean rows, with no API key and no quota limits. Three things in one tool:

• Search any keyword and get the results as structured data
• Channel videos: pull the recent uploads from any channel
• Video details: full metadata for specific videos

For each video you get the title, view count, upload date, duration, channel, thumbnail and link — ready for a spreadsheet, a dashboard, a database or a bot.

Why not the official API?

Google's YouTube Data API has a daily quota that runs out fast and needs a Google Cloud project and key. This tool reads YouTube's own public pages instead: no key, no quota, no project setup. You pay only for the rows you get.

What you get for each video

• title, url, videoId
• views (as a number) and viewsText
• published, durationSeconds and durationText
• channel and channelId
• thumbnail: the largest available image

Video-details mode adds the description, category, keywords, exact upload date and like count.

Example output

{
  "source": "channel",
  "sourceInput": "@mkbhd",
  "videoId": "_oRgdlJUD18",
  "title": "iOS 27 Hands-On: Top 5 New Features!",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRgdlJUD18",
  "views": 2500000,
  "viewsText": "2.5M views",
  "published": "21 hours ago",
  "durationSeconds": 919,
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_oRgdlJUD18/hqdefault.jpg"
}

Three modes

• Search keywords: each keyword returns the first page of results (about 20 videos).
• Channels: give handles (@mkbhd) or channel URLs; each returns the recent uploads (about 30 videos).
• Video URLs or IDs: watch links, youtu.be links or bare ids, for full details.

Pricing

$0.002 per video row. Bad input, videos not found and pages that could not be fetched are free, and the first 2 rows of every run are free. A channel of 30 videos costs about $0.06; a keyword search about $0.04. Rental-priced YouTube actors charge far more per thousand.

How to run it via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapemint~youtube-video-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries": ["web scraping tutorial"], "channels": ["@mkbhd"]}'

Scope and limits

• Search and channel modes return the first page (about 20 to 30 videos), which is what most monitoring and research needs.
• Video-details mode is best effort: YouTube rate limits the watch page more than the listing pages, so a busy run may not fetch every single video. Those rows come back free and marked, never charged, so you can retry them.
• Not included: transcripts and comments. This tool covers video and channel metadata.

Frequently asked questions

Is this the official YouTube data? Yes, it is the same data YouTube shows on its public pages, just structured into rows. This tool is not affiliated with YouTube.

Can I get more than the first page? This version returns the first page per search or channel, which covers the newest and most relevant videos. Deeper pagination may come later.

Do view counts update? Each run reads the current values, so schedule a daily run to track how views grow over time.

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