YouTube Video & Channel Data Extractor

Extract video metadata, channel info, search results, and comments from YouTube. Uses oEmbed API and page scraping — no API key required.

Features

• Video data extraction — Title, description, duration, views, likes, upload date, thumbnails
• Channel data extraction — Name, subscribers, video count, avatar, banner, join date
• YouTube search — Search for videos by keyword, get title, views, publish date, duration
• Comment extraction — Scrape comments with author, text, likes, timestamps
• Multi-source — Accept video URLs, channel URLs, and search queries in one run
• No API key needed — Uses oEmbed API + page scraping via JSON-LD, ytInitialData, meta tags

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
videoUrls	array of strings		YouTube video URLs to extract
channelUrls	array of strings		YouTube channel URLs to extract
searchQueries	array of strings		Search terms to find videos
maxResults	integer		Max videos per source (default: 30)
includeComments	boolean		Scrape comments on videos (default: false)
maxComments	integer		Max comments per video (default: 50)

Example Input

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"],
  "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@Veritasium"],
  "searchQueries": ["python tutorial 2026"],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxComments": 30
}

Output Fields

Per video: videoId, title, description, channelName, channelUrl, duration (seconds), views, thumbnailUrl, uploadDate, publishedText, keywords, comments, sourceType

Per channel: channelUrl, title, description, subscriberCount, videosCount, avatarUrl, bannerUrl, channelId, joinedDate, sourceType

Per search: searchQuery, results (array of video search results), sourceType

Local Development

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
apify run --purge

Limitations

• YouTube may block aggressive scraping — add delays between requests
• Comment extraction depends on ytInitialData being present in page HTML
• Some metadata may be missing without a valid API key
• Search results may vary by region/language