Startpage Video Scraper

Scrapes Startpage Videos for any query. Extracts the full canonical video-vertical schema: title, URL, platform, channel, duration, views, likes, dates, thumbnail, dimensions, language, region, category, tags, anonymous-view URL, and more.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts video results and media metadata into clean JSON records that can be downloaded, queried through the Apify API, or sent to downstream workflows.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 43-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• Video discovery
• Publisher and topic monitoring
• Media-catalog enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied; source-specific alternatives and constraints are described in the field text.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	Yes	"artificial intelligence tutorial"	The video search query.
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum number of videos to scrape.
language	string	No	"english"	Language for results (e.g. 'english', 'deutsch', 'français').
region	string	No	""	Region/country code (e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'de', 'in').
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}	Proxy settings. Residential proxies strongly recommended.

Example input

{
  "query": "tutorial",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "region": "us"
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per video result. The following are the most useful fields; availability can vary by source response.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
title	string	Title
platform	string	Platform
duration	string	Duration
views	string	Views
channel	string	Channel
searchQuery	string	Search Query
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At
type	string	Type
description	string	Description
url	string	URL
link	string	Link
query	string	Query
resultType	string	Result Type
page	integer	Page
titleHtml	string	Title HTML

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Funny Escalator Tutorial #katebrush #tutorial #shorts",
  "platform": "YouTube",
  "duration": "0:10",
  "views": "10M views",
  "searchQuery": "tutorial",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T12:28:47.387Z",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5OAA0SeWnA",
  "domain": "youtube.com",
  "durationSeconds": 10,
  "publishedAt": "1 year ago",
  "language": "en"
}

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• Startpage Anonymous View Scraper
• Startpage Image Scraper
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