# YouTube Search Results — $0.10/1K (`scrapesignal_labs/youtube-search-results-scraper`) Actor

Search YouTube without an API key and export public videos, channels, and playlists with titles, URLs, creators, views, dates, durations, and thumbnails.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapesignal\_labs/youtube-search-results-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ScrapeSignal Labs](https://apify.com/scrapesignal_labs) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 66.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.10 / 1,000 search results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## YouTube Search Results

Search public YouTube pages without an API key and export clean video, channel, and playlist rows. Built for creator research, market monitoring, lead discovery, content planning, automation, and AI-agent pipelines.

### What you get

- result type, title, stable YouTube ID, and canonical URL
- channel name and channel URL
- visible views/subscribers, publication age, and video duration
- descriptions, thumbnails, and verification badges when shown
- the source query on every row

### Example input

```json
{
  "queries": ["AI automation tutorial"],
  "resultTypes": ["video", "channel", "playlist"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
  "countryCode": "US",
  "languageCode": "en"
}
```

The result ceiling is explicit, so cost is predictable. Run from the Console, API, Python, JavaScript, CLI, schedules, webhooks, MCP, or an AI agent. Public results can change by country, language, time, and YouTube experiments. Follow YouTube's terms and applicable law.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One YouTube search phrase per line.

## `resultTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep any combination of videos, channels, and playlists.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Hard output and price ceiling per query. YouTube usually returns about 20 initial results.

## `countryCode` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country used to localize YouTube results.

## `languageCode` (type: `string`):

Language used to localize YouTube results.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of queries fetched in parallel.

## `timeoutSeconds` (type: `integer`):

Maximum seconds to wait for each YouTube page.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "AI automation tutorial"
  ],
  "resultTypes": [
    "video",
    "channel",
    "playlist"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
  "countryCode": "US",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "timeoutSeconds": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapesignal_labs/youtube-search-results-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapesignal_labs/youtube-search-results-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call scrapesignal_labs/youtube-search-results-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapesignal_labs/youtube-search-results-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/RmJybOOb3yr75QdfY/builds/Y4CYmtCnKSdkFXe3e/openapi.json