# YouTube Scraper (By Keyword) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fast & cheap (`scrapestorm/youtube`) Actor

Alternative YouTube API for unlimited access: Crawl and scrape YouTube videos to extract and download details such as channel name, likes, view count, and subscriber count without any limits or quotas.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube.md
- **Developed by:** [Storm_Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapestorm) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Automation, News
- **Stats:** 121 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 11 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### 🎥 YouTube Video Data Scraper

The YouTube Video Data Scraper is a powerful tool designed to extract data from specific YouTube videos. By providing the URL of a video, you can retrieve:

Video title 📛
Video URL 🌐
Thumbnail URL 🖼️
Channel name 📺
Date of publication 📅
View count (both text and numeric) 👁️‍🗨️
Video duration ⏱️
Other additional information about the video and the channel ℹ️

📩 If you want to increase the number of results per search, please leave us a message or contact us at randomus075@gmail.com

### 🛠️ How to Use

Enter Data: Input the keyword of the YouTube videos you wish to scrape.
Start Scraping: Click the "Start" button to begin the scraping process. The scraper will navigate to the video and extract the data.
Download Your Data: Once the extraction is complete, download the results in the format that suits you best (JSON, CSV, XML, HTML, etc.).

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper operates on a pay-per-month basis at a cost of 9.90$/month.

### Related Actors ℹ️

If you're interested in other YouTube scraping solutions, check out these related actors:

- [💬 YouTube Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube-comments-scraper---rental-fast-and-cheap)
- [🏎 YouTube Scraper (By Keyword) ](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube)
- [🔴 Youtube Channel Scraper (Rental)](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube-channel-scraper)
- [🌐 Youtube Shorts Scraper 📺 (Rental)](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/youtube-shorts-scraper-rental---fast-cheap)

***

You can even apply sentiment analysis on the transcript text we've extracted! 😃📊:

- [Sentiment Analysis Text Classification 📈](https://apify.com/scrapestorm/sentiment-analysis-text-classification)

### 🔑 Youtube Scraper Input

The YouTube Video Data Scraper requires a specific input format:
a JSON object with the URL of the YouTube video you wish to scrape.

```
{
  "keyword": [
    "Artificial intelligence"
  ]
}

```

### 📊 YouTube Scraper Data Output

The YouTube Video Data Scraper will extract the following information and store it in the Apify dataset. After the run is finished,
you can download the data in various formats, including JSON, CSV, XML, RSS, and HTML Table.

```
{
    "Title": "Awesome Video Title",
    "Video URL": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXXXXXX",
    "Thumbnail URL": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XXXXXXXXXXX/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "Channel": "Awesome Channel",
    "Date of publication": "2024-11-13",
    "View count (text)": "1.2M views",
    "View count (integer)": 1200000,
    "Duration": "10:23",
    "Duration label": "10 minutes and 23 seconds",
    "Channel name": "Awesome Channel",
    "Link to channel": "https://www.youtube.com/c/AwesomeChannel"
}

```

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

The keyword you want to use to get video metadata from YouTube.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": "USA"
}
```

# 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 = {
    "keyword": "USA"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapestorm/youtube").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 = { "keyword": "USA" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapestorm/youtube").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 '{
  "keyword": "USA"
}' |
apify call scrapestorm/youtube --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/peTajeMchsuAbeU8I/builds/QBezUZmyJ9U4sufiL/openapi.json