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Youtube Scraper Pro

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The most advanced YouTube scraper on the market. Extract videos, Shorts, Live streams, comments, and even dislike counts from any country. Includes AI-ready JSON output and subtitle downloads.

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You can access the Youtube Scraper Pro programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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                  "title": "URL of a web page",
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          },
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            "title": "Download subtitles",
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            "enum": [
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              "en",
              "de",
              "es",
              "fr",
              "it",
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              "nl",
              "pt",
              "ru",
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              "ar",
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          },
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            "title": "Prefer auto-generated subtitles",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "When enabled, prefer YouTube's auto-generated captions over manually uploaded subtitles.",
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          },
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              "vtt",
              "json"
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            "description": "Output format for downloaded subtitles.",
            "default": "plaintext"
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            "enum": [
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              "rating",
              "upload_date",
              "view_count"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "description": "How to sort YouTube search results.",
            "default": "relevance"
          },
          "dateFilter": {
            "title": "Upload date",
            "enum": [
              "",
              "hour",
              "today",
              "week",
              "month",
              "year"
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            "type": "string",
            "description": "Filter videos by when they were uploaded.",
            "default": ""
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          "videoType": {
            "title": "Video type",
            "enum": [
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              "video",
              "movie"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Filter by content type - regular videos or full movies.",
            "default": ""
          },
          "durationFilter": {
            "title": "Duration",
            "enum": [
              "",
              "short",
              "medium",
              "long"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Filter videos by length.",
            "default": ""
          },
          "minViews": {
            "title": "Minimum views",
            "minimum": 0,
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Only include videos with at least this many views. Set to 0 for no filter.",
            "default": 0
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            "title": "HD",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Only show HD quality videos.",
            "default": false
          },
          "featureSubtitles": {
            "title": "Subtitles/CC",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Only show videos with closed captions.",
            "default": false
          },
          "featureCreativeCommons": {
            "title": "Creative Commons",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Only show Creative Commons licensed videos.",
            "default": false
          },
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            "title": "3D",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Only show 3D videos.",
            "default": false
          },
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            "title": "Live",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Only show live broadcasts.",
            "default": false
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            "title": "4K",
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            "description": "Only show 4K UHD quality videos.",
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            "description": "Only show 360 degree videos.",
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            "description": "Only show HDR videos.",
            "default": false
          },
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            "title": "VR180",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Only show VR180 videos.",
            "default": false
          },
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            "title": "Scrape videos published after",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "When scraping channels, only get videos uploaded after this date. Use YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g., 2024-01-01) or relative format (e.g., '30 days', '6 months', '1 year')."
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            "title": "Sort channel videos by",
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            "type": "string",
            "description": "How to sort videos when scraping a channel page.",
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          },
          "countryCode": {
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            "type": "string",
            "description": "Get region-specific results. Use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (e.g., US, UK, DE, JP, BR)."
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            "type": "string",
            "description": "YouTube interface language. Use ISO 639-1 codes (e.g., en, es, fr, de, ja)."
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            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Get estimated dislikes via Return YouTube Dislike API. Adds a small delay but provides valuable engagement metrics.",
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Youtube Scraper Pro OpenAPI definition

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