Pornhub Scraper - Video Metadata, Tags, Views & Categories

The most complete Pornhub scraper for public video metadata on Apify, with no API key and no login. Extract titles, exact view counts, ratings, duration, upload date, uploader, pornstars, categories and tags at scale, then export to JSON, CSV or Excel for content trend and metadata analytics. Search by keyword or tag, browse a category, or pull every video from a pornstar, model or channel.

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns (long description, categories and tags trimmed for readability; the actor returns the full values):

{
  "title": "Step Sister Caught Step Brother Jerking Off and Helps Cum Quick",
  "url": "https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=6a631a3a91d2f",
  "viewkey": "6a631a3a91d2f",
  "videoId": 488461945,
  "segment": "straight",
  "durationSeconds": 630,
  "views": 2187216,
  "likes": 3342,
  "votesUp": 3342,
  "isHD": true,
  "isVR": false,
  "isPremium": false,
  "uploader": "Kitty",
  "uploaderUrl": "https://www.pornhub.com/model/kitty",
  "uploaderType": "model",
  "uploadedAt": "2026-07-24T07:57:00+00:00",
  "addedAgo": "56 years ago",
  "thumbnail": "https://pix-cdn77.phncdn.com/c6371/videos/202607/24/56566265/original_56566265.mp4/...",
  "previewVideoUrl": "https://kw.phncdn.com/c6251/videos/202607/24/56566265/180P_225K_56566265.webm?...",
  "description": "Watch Step Sister Caught Step Brother Jerking Off and Helps Cum Quick [trimmed]",
  "pornstars": null,
  "categories": [
    "18-25",
    "Amateur",
    "Babe",
    "Big Ass",
    "Big Dick",
    "Cumshot",
    "HD Porn",
    "POV",
    "Rough Sex",
    "Step Fantasy",
    "Verified Amateurs"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "step sis",
    "stepsister",
    "familly therapy",
    "prone bone",
    "prone bone creampie",
    "prone bone pov"
  ],
  "observedAt": "2026-09-04T10:05:12.350Z",
  "error": null
}

This actor returns every field a public video listing and detail page expose, including exact view and like counts, rating percentage and vote totals, comment counts, duration, uploader, upload date, description, pornstars, categories and tags, plus HD, VR and premium flags. Scrape by search keyword, category, tag, pornstar, model or channel.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Use cases
• Why this Pornhub scraper
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

The actor collects public Pornhub video metadata from one source at a time (a search keyword, a category, a pornstar page, a model page or a channel), paginates the listing, optionally opens each video page for the exact counts and full detail, and writes one normalized record per video to the run's dataset. Each record includes the title, URL and viewkey, duration in seconds, view and like counts, uploader and uploader type, upload date, description, and the pornstars, categories and tags. Missing source values are returned as null, never invented. Only public listing and video-page metadata is read; no media is downloaded.

Pick one source by priority: searchQuery, then category, then pornstar, then model, then channel. The tags input is folded into the search query. Order the listing with sort and narrow with period.

Use cases

• Content trend analytics. Track which titles, tags and categories gain views over time by re-running a search or category on a schedule.
• Metadata datasets for research. Build a structured corpus of adult-video metadata (views, ratings, duration, tags, upload dates) without downloading any media.
• Creator and channel monitoring. Pull a pornstar, model or channel back-catalog with per-video view and like counts, upload dates, categories and tags.
• Tag and category intelligence. Aggregate the tags and categories attached to top-ranked videos for a keyword to understand how content is labelled.
• Ranking and SEO research. Compare mostViewed, topRated and mostRecent orderings to see what surfaces for a term.

Why this Pornhub scraper

A strict superset of the common Apify Pornhub scrapers: it accepts every input they do and returns every field they do, plus exact detail-page counts and extra quality and engagement signals.

Capability	This actor	Typical Pornhub search scraper
Search by keyword	Yes	Yes
Browse by category	Yes	Yes
Tag-based search	Yes (tags)	Sometimes
Pornstar / model / channel source	Yes (all three)	Rarely
Sort (recent, viewed, rated, longest)	Yes	Partial
Time window filter	Yes	Sometimes
Numeric videoId + alphanumeric viewkey	Both	video_id only
Straight / gay / trans segment	Yes	Sometimes
Exact views and likes (detail page)	Yes	Listing approximations
Up votes, plus rating % and down votes when exposed	Yes	Rating only
Comment count when exposed	Yes	No
Categories and tags per video	Yes	Yes
Pornstars credited per video	Yes	Sometimes
HD / VR / premium flags	Yes	No
Upload date (ISO 8601)	Yes	Partial
Thumbnail + preview clip URL	Both	Thumbnail only
No API key, JSON / CSV / Excel export	Yes	Yes

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns up to 10 videos matching the search cars, each enriched with full detail.

{
  "maxVideos": 10,
  "withDetails": true,
  "searchQuery": "cars",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Leave searchQuery empty and set a category, pornstar, model or channel instead. Turn withDetails off for a faster run that returns only the listing-level fields.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxVideos	integer	no	10	Maximum number of videos to collect.
withDetails	boolean	no	true	Open each video page to add exact views, likes, upload date, description, categories and tags. Turn off for a faster listing-only run.
searchQuery	string	no	cars	Keyword to search public videos for, for example yoga, gaming. Highest-priority source.
category	enum	no	(any)	Browse a public category instead of searching (for example Amateur, MILF, Gaming, Podcast). Ignored when a search query is set.
pornstar	string	no	(empty)	Public pornstar page slug, for example riley-reid from pornhub.com/pornstar/riley-reid.
model	string	no	(empty)	Public model or verified amateur page slug, for example betty-cockup.
channel	string	no	(empty)	Public channel page slug, for example brazzers from pornhub.com/channels/brazzers.
tags	string[]	no	(none)	One or more tags, for example ["amateur", "pov"]. Added to your search query, or used on their own as the search terms. Ignored when a category, pornstar, model or channel source is set.
sort	enum	no	relevance	Order of the listing: relevance, mostRecent, mostViewed, topRated, longest.
period	enum	no	(all time)	Restrict to a recent time window (search and category sources): today, week, month, year.
startPage	integer	no	1	Listing page number to start from. Useful for resuming or skipping ahead.
proxy	object	no	Apify RESIDENTIAL, US	Proxy configuration. Pornhub geo-restricts and rate-limits datacenter IPs, so a residential proxy is required.

When more than one source is filled, the first non-empty in the order above is used.

Output reference

One dataset item per video. Types: string, integer, string[], or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Video title.
url	string	Video page URL.
viewkey	string	Pornhub viewkey (unique alphanumeric key per video).
videoId	integer	Numeric internal video id, or null.
segment	string	Site segment: straight, gay or trans, or null.
durationSeconds	integer	Video duration in seconds.
views	integer	View count. Exact when withDetails is on, approximate from the listing otherwise.
likes	integer	Like count. Present when withDetails is on.
votesUp	integer	Up votes. Present when withDetails is on.
votesDown	integer	Down votes, when the page exposes them (may be null).
ratingPercent	integer	Thumbs-up rating percentage (0 to 100), when the page exposes it (may be null).
ratingsCount	integer	Total votes (up plus down), when both are exposed (may be null).
commentsCount	integer	Number of comments, when the page exposes it (may be null).
isHD	boolean	Whether the video is HD. Resolved from categories when withDetails is on; null if unknown at listing level.
isVR	boolean	Whether the video is virtual reality. Resolved when withDetails is on; null if unknown at listing level.
isPremium	boolean	Whether the video is a premium listing.
uploader	string	Uploader display name.
uploaderUrl	string	Uploader page URL.
uploaderType	string	Uploader type, for example model, pornstar, channel.
uploadedAt	string	Upload date (ISO 8601). Present when withDetails is on.
addedAgo	string	Relative upload label as shown on the page.
thumbnail	string	Thumbnail image URL.
previewVideoUrl	string	Short preview clip URL, or null.
description	string	Full video description. Present when withDetails is on.
pornstars	string[]	Pornstars credited on the video, or null.
categories	string[]	Categories the video is listed under. Present when withDetails is on.
tags	string[]	Tags on the video. Present when withDetails is on.
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.
error	string	null on success. On a failed run, an item with a populated error field is written instead.

Example output record

Real record from a live run (input {"searchQuery": "cars", "sort": "mostViewed", "withDetails": true, "maxVideos": 6}):

{
  "title": "When She Can't Stop Shaking - Orgasm Compilation",
  "url": "https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=68986ff31c005",
  "viewkey": "68986ff31c005",
  "videoId": 472981815,
  "segment": "straight",
  "durationSeconds": 689,
  "views": 18171553,
  "likes": 29478,
  "votesUp": 29478,
  "isHD": true,
  "isVR": false,
  "isPremium": false,
  "uploader": "BootyFrutti Juicy Bits",
  "uploaderType": "model",
  "uploadedAt": "2025-08-10T10:19:37+00:00",
  "pornstars": ["BootyFrutti"],
  "categories": [
    "Amateur",
    "Big Ass",
    "Compilation",
    "Female Orgasm",
    "HD Porn",
    "Verified Amateurs"
  ],
  "tags": ["amateur", "homemade", "orgasm", "female orgasm", "big ass"],
  "observedAt": "2026-09-04T10:04:50.000Z",
  "error": null
}

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~pornhub-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQuery":"cars","sort":"mostViewed","maxVideos":25}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~pornhub-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"channel":"brazzers","sort":"topRated","maxVideos":100}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/pornhub-scraper \
  --input '{"category":"131","sort":"mostRecent"}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per video returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• Optional detail add-on. When withDetails is on, each video that is successfully enriched from its detail page also charges a small details add-on on top of the result. Turn withDetails off to pay the listing price only.
• No charge on failure. If a run errors, the actor writes an item with a populated error field and does not charge for it. A video whose detail page cannot be fetched is returned at listing level and is not charged the detail add-on. Empty runs cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 videos per run. Upgrade for higher maxVideos.
• Residential proxy required. Pornhub geo-restricts and rate-limits datacenter IPs. Keep the default Apify residential proxy configuration.

FAQ and troubleshooting

A run returned 0 records. Why? The keyword or slug matched nothing, or the proxy could not reach the site. Try a broader searchQuery, confirm the pornstar, model or channel slug, and keep the residential proxy on. Zero-result runs are not charged.

Which source is used when I fill more than one? The first non-empty in this order: searchQuery, category, pornstar, model, channel. The rest are ignored.

Why is addedAgo sometimes an odd value like "56 years ago"? That relative label is taken directly from the page and can be inaccurate at the source. Use uploadedAt (present when withDetails is on) for the exact upload date.

How do I get exact view and like counts? Keep withDetails on. The listing shows approximate values; the detail page provides exact views, likes, uploadedAt, categories and tags.

Why is pornstars null? No pornstar was credited on that video. Missing source values are returned as null, never invented.

Can I filter by tags? Yes. Set tags to one or more tags, for example ["amateur", "pov"]. They are added to your searchQuery, or used on their own as the search terms when no other source is set.

What do isHD, isVR, isPremium and segment mean? isHD, isVR and isPremium are booleans flagging high-definition, virtual-reality and premium listings. segment is the site section the video belongs to (straight, gay or trans).

Do you need an API key? No. The actor needs no Pornhub account, API key or login. Only your Apify token to start a run.

Is this an official Pornhub tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with Pornhub or Aylo. It reads only public metadata and does not download any media.

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