🚀 Ultimate YouTube Scraper

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The most comprehensive, blazing-fast, and zero-auth YouTube data extraction tool on the Apify platform. Whether you are conducting market research, performing sentiment analysis on comments, or building AI datasets using transcripts, this scraper delivers clean, structured data in seconds.

No official API keys, no OAuth tokens, and no quota limits to worry about. Just input a channel handle, video URL, or search keyword, and let the scraper do the heavy lifting.

🔥 Key Features & Extraction Modes

This scraper supports 10 distinct extraction modes, covering every corner of YouTube's ecosystem:

1. 📊 Channel Profile & Stats: Extract subscriber counts, total views, channel descriptions, and banner/avatar imagery.
2. 🎬 Channel Videos: Scrape a channel's uploaded videos, including views, durations, and thumbnails.
3. 📱 Channel Shorts: Isolate and extract short-form vertical videos (YouTube Shorts).
4. 🔴 Channel Live Streams: Archive past, present, and upcoming live stream metadata.
5. 📂 Channel Playlists: Extract all public playlists created by a channel.
6. 💬 Community Tab Posts: Scrape text, polls, image attachments, and engagement metrics from the Community tab.
7. 🔍 Single Video/Short Details: Get deep metadata for any specific video, including likes, views, and recommended "watch next" videos.
8. 🗣️ Video Comments: Extract thousands of top or newest comments, including author names, like counts, and reply counts.
9. 📝 AI Video Transcripts: Download full, timestamped video transcripts/captions—perfect for AI summarization and NLP.
10. 🌍 Global Keyword Search: Search YouTube globally and scrape mixed results (Videos, Playlists, Channels) just like the native UI.

💡 Top Use Cases

• Market Research & Competitor Analysis: Monitor competitor upload schedules, video performance, and community engagement.
• Sentiment Analysis: Scrape thousands of comments to analyze viewer sentiment on product reviews or trending topics.
• AI & NLP Training: Extract timestamps and clean transcripts from tutorials, podcasts, and speeches to train Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Influencer Discovery: Use global search to find niche creators and scrape their channel stats to evaluate sponsorship potential.
• Content Archiving: Back up live stream data, community polls, and playlist structures.

🛠️ How to Use (Input Configuration)

We designed the input to be incredibly simple and "idiot-proof." You only need to fill out two main fields:

• Extraction Mode: Select one of the 10 modes from the dropdown.
• Target: Enter your target. The scraper is smart enough to auto-detect what you mean!
  • For Channels: Enter a handle (e.g., @MrBeast), a Channel ID, or a full channel URL.
  • For Videos/Comments/Transcripts: Paste the full YouTube URL (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...).
  • For Search: Just type your keyword (e.g., React tutorial).
• Sort By (Optional): Sort videos by "popular" or comments by "newest".

🗂️ Clean, Universal Output

To make your life easier, all 10 extraction modes map their highly-complex raw data into 5 universal, easy-to-read columns.

Here is an example of what the JSON output looks like:

[
  {
    "author": "MrBeast",
    "content": "I Survived 50 Hours In Antarctica",
    "metrics": "Views: 185000000 | Duration: 14:20",
    "url": "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xXZ6VwX2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xXZ6VwX2s)",
    "media": "[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7_xXZ6VwX2s/maxresdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7_xXZ6VwX2s/maxresdefault.jpg)"
  },
  {
    "author": "Anonymous_User123",
    "content": "This video is absolutely insane! The production quality is movie-level.",
    "metrics": "Likes: 45200 | Replies: 120",
    "url": "[https://www.youtube.com/@Anonymous_User123](https://www.youtube.com/@Anonymous_User123)",
    "media": "[https://yt3.ggpht.com/](https://yt3.ggpht.com/)..."
  }
]