YouTube Scraper With AI Video Summary & Transcripts
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📺 YouTube Scraper extracts video & channel data — titles, descriptions, views, likes, comments, tags, publish dates & playlists. 🔍 Perfect for SEO research, content analysis, trend tracking & competitor insights. ⚡ Fast, reliable, API-ready. Also grabs thumbnails, durations, URLs, subtitles.
One or more YouTube search keywords/phrases to analyze (e.g. "machine learning tutorial", "crawlee"). Every matching video is fetched and can be run through transcript + chapter + AI summarization below. (Base-compatible alias: searchTerms.)
Direct YouTube video/Shorts URLs to analyze without a search query — ideal for summarizing a known list of videos. (Base-compatible alias: startUrls.)
How many regular (non-Shorts, non-live) videos to analyze per search query. 0 skips long-form videos entirely. (Base-compatible alias: maxVideos.) Default 10.
How many YouTube Shorts to analyze per query. 0 excludes Shorts. (Base-compatible alias: maxShorts.) Default 0.
How many live/upcoming streams to analyze per query. 0 excludes live content. (Base-compatible alias: maxStreams.) Default 0.
Download the video's full transcript/subtitles. Recommended ON when using AI summary/keyword extraction below for the richest results (without it, AI falls back to title + description only). (Base-compatible alias: downloadSubtitles.)
Preferred transcript language code. Falls back to any available track if this language has none. (Base-compatible alias: subtitlesLanguage.) Default en.
Prefer YouTube's auto-generated captions over manually uploaded ones (higher coverage, lower accuracy). (Base-compatible alias: preferAutoGenerated.)
How the transcript field is formatted in the output: classic SRT, plain text, or timestamped JSON. (Base-compatible alias: subtitlesFormat.) Default srt.
Also save each transcript to the run's key-value store under "transcript-", separate from the dataset. (Base-compatible alias: saveSubtitlesToKvs.)
Extract the uploader's chapter markers (already present in YouTube's own page payload — zero extra requests) as structured content sections with start/end/duration, used to anchor the AI summary. Empty list when a video has no chapters (most videos). Default ON.
Turn on AI-generated video summaries built from the transcript (+ chapters when present). OFF by default — requires an AI model + API key below (or a matching provider environment variable). When off or keyless, aiSummary is null and aiEnrichmentStatus reports why.
Turn on AI keyword/topic extraction across the title, description, and transcript (up to 10 keywords + up to 5 broader topics per video). OFF by default — needs the same AI model + API key as the summary feature.
Provider is auto-detected from the model name: claude-=Anthropic, gpt-/o1/o3=OpenAI, gemini-=Google, grok-=xAI, deepseek-=DeepSeek, sonar=Perplexity, mistral-*=Mistral. Cheaper mini/flash/haiku models are recommended.
API key for the provider matching aiModel above. Optional — if left empty, the matching provider environment variable is used instead (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY/GOOGLE_API_KEY, XAI_API_KEY/GROK_API_KEY, DEEPSEEK_API_KEY, PERPLEXITY_API_KEY/PPLX_API_KEY, MISTRAL_API_KEY). With neither set, AI fields are null.
Sort by relevance (original order), upload date, view count, or rating. (Base-compatible alias: sortingOrder.)
Match YouTube's "Upload date" filter: last hour, today, this week, this month, or this year. (Base-compatible alias: dateFilter.)
Restrict to standard videos (excludes Shorts) when set to 'video'. Channel/playlist/movie apply only where supported. (Base-compatible alias: videoTypeFilter.)
YouTube's length presets: short clips, medium-length, or long-form (20+ minutes). (Base-compatible alias: lengthFilter.)
Only include videos published after this absolute date (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for all dates. (Base-compatible alias: publishedAfter.)
Sort the FINAL dataset by date, view count, or likes after scraping. (Base-compatible alias: sortBy.)
Only include HD (720p+) videos. (Base-compatible alias: isHD.)
Only include videos with a proper (non auto-generated) closed-caption track. (Base-compatible alias: hasCC.)
Only include videos YouTube marks as Creative Commons licensed. (Base-compatible alias: isCreativeCommons.)
Only include stereoscopic 3D videos. (Base-compatible alias: is3D.)
Restrict to live/live-style content. (Base-compatible alias: isLive.)
Best-effort filter for purchased/paid content; YouTube rarely exposes this, so coverage is limited. (Base-compatible alias: isPurchased.)
Only include videos offering at least one 2160p (4K) stream. (Base-compatible alias: is4K.)
Only include immersive 360° (equirectangular) videos. (Base-compatible alias: is360.)
Only include videos where YouTube exposes explicit location metadata. (Base-compatible alias: hasLocation.)
Only include High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos. (Base-compatible alias: isHDR.)
Only include VR180 immersive content. (Base-compatible alias: isVR180.)
