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YouTube Search Scraper — All Filters, Video & Channel Data

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Scrape YouTube search results by keyword with every filter YouTube offers: 4 sort orders, 6 upload windows (from last hour), 6 result types, 4 durations, 11 feature flags. Each row: video ID, title, description snippet, channel name/ID/handle, views, duration, thumbnails, badges, chapters.

Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 per search result returneds

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Scrapers Delight

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10 days ago

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Categories

Social media

Videos

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Search queries

searchQueries

Optional

The keywords to search YouTube for — one per line, exactly what you would type into YouTube's own search box. A single query runs dry at roughly 200-340 unique results (that is YouTube's ceiling, not ours), so volume comes from running MANY queries, not one deep one. Leave empty and the actor runs the sample query "web scraping" so a blank run still returns data.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "web scraping"
]

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

YouTube's own sort order. relevance is the default ranking you see on youtube.com. uploadDate and rating are not exposed by any other Store actor — they are encoded straight into YouTube's search protobuf.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevanceuploadDateviewCountrating

Upload date

uploadDate

Optional

Only return results uploaded inside this window. lastHour is a real YouTube filter that competing actors do not expose — verified live returning videos 26-56 minutes old.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anylastHourtodaythisWeekthisMonththisYear

Result type

resultType

Optional

Which kind of result YouTube should return. These are server-side filters, verified live: video returned 64 video rows and zero Shorts over 3 pages, channel returned 20 channel rows and zero videos. any reproduces youtube.com exactly, which means the Shorts shelf is mixed in and you pay for those rows too — over the same 3 pages any returned 40 videos + 70 Shorts + 1 channel. Default is video so you are not billed for Shorts you did not ask for.

Type:string

Default:video

Options:

videoanyshortschannelplaylistmovie

Video duration

duration

Optional

Server-side length filter. Verified live: under3min returned 0:45-1:52, from3to20min returned 6:39-19:39, over20min returned 55:11-11:55:00.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyunder3minfrom3to20minover20min

Feature filters

features

Optional

YouTube's feature checkboxes. Pick any combination — they are encoded together into one request, so the full cross-product with the sort/date/type/duration filters is reachable. Note: live results legitimately have no duration and no publish date.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Max results per query

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

Stop each query after this many unique results. YouTube's own continuation chain runs dry at roughly 200-340 unique results per query (measured: 206 for "plumber", 337 for "best crm software"), so asking for much more than that just ends the query early — it does not under-deliver silently, the log says "no further pages".

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:200

Max results in total

maxResults

Optional

Hard stop across every query combined. 0 = no overall limit (each query is still bounded by "Max results per query").

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Language (hl)

language

Optional

YouTube interface language code sent as hl. Changes the language of relative dates ("6 years ago") and badge labels, and nudges which results rank.

Type:string

Default:en

Country (gl)

region

Optional

Two-letter country code sent as gl. YouTube ranks search results per country, so this is how you scrape the German or Brazilian result set for the same keyword.

Type:string

Default:US

De-duplicate across queries

deduplicateAcrossQueries

Optional

Duplicates INSIDE one query are always dropped before billing (YouTube's continuation chain repeats 8-14% of rows). This switch also drops a result that already appeared under a DIFFERENT query. Leave it off for rank tracking, where the same video ranking for two keywords is two real data points; switch it on when you just want a unique list of videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify Proxy on auto is enough — verified HTTP 200 through auto and through residential on the same day. Switch to RESIDENTIAL only if a very large job starts seeing 403/429 in the log; residential bandwidth is billed and each result is ~36 KB.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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