YouTube Search & Transcript Scraper — Keyword to Exact Views, Dates & Subtitles

Type a keyword, get YouTube search results as structured rows — with the exact numbers YouTube's own search page hides behind rounded text.

• Exact view counts (4,821,904) instead of "4.8M views".
• Real ISO publish dates (2026-01-31T00:00:00.000Z) instead of "9 months ago".
• Exact like counts, channel subscriber counts, video tags (keywords), and optional subtitles/transcripts (SRT, VTT, TXT, or JSON) for AI/LLM pipelines.

Pricing at a glance (Tiered Pay-Per-Result)

Videos collected	Free Tier ($1.00/1k)	Bronze ($0.90/1k)	Silver ($0.80/1k)	Gold+ ($0.70/1k)
50 videos	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.035
1,000 videos	$1.00	$0.90	$0.80	$0.70
10,000 videos	$10.00	$9.00	$8.00	$7.00

• Cross-keyword deduplication: if the same video ranks for multiple keywords in your run, it is saved once and billed once.
• Fast HTTP engine (~2.8 videos/sec): runs without a heavy browser for keyword search, keeping compute footprint under 400 MB.
• Apify Free Plan's $5 monthly credit covers ~5,000 videos.

---

What a row looks like

{
  "id": "kYfNvmF0Bqw",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw",
  "title": "The Best Smartphone Camera 2026",
  "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channelSubscriberCount": 20100000,
  "viewCount": 4821904,
  "likes": 79605,
  "lengthSeconds": 1043,
  "publishedDate": "2026-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "publishedDateEstimated": false,
  "publishedTimeText": "7 months ago",
  "isShort": false,
  "keywords": ["smartphone", "camera test", "blind test"],
  "description": "Full blind camera test results...",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kYfNvmF0Bqw/hqdefault.jpg",
  "transcript": null,
  "captionTracks": [
    { "languageCode": "en", "name": "English", "isAutoGenerated": false }
  ],
  "subtitlesLanguage": null
}

---

Input

Field	Meaning
searchQueries	One or more keywords. Each is searched separately and results are merged & deduplicated
maxResults	Regular videos per keyword (25 by default, up to 1,000 per keyword)
maxResultsShorts	Shorts per keyword (0 to skip)
maxResultStreams	Live streams per keyword (0 to skip)
dateFilter	any, hour, today, thisWeek, thisMonth, thisYear
lengthFilter	any, under4 (< 4 min), between420 (4–20 min), over20 (> 20 min)
sortingOrder	relevance, popularity (most views), uploadDate (newest), rating
hl / gl	Interface language & country (en/US, ko/KR, ja/JP, etc.)
downloadSubtitles	Extract full transcript (srt, vtt, txt, or json)

{
  "searchQueries": ["AI agents", "SpaceX"],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxResultsShorts": 0,
  "maxResultStreams": 0,
  "dateFilter": "thisMonth",
  "lengthFilter": "any",
  "sortingOrder": "relevance",
  "hl": "en",
  "gl": "US",
  "downloadSubtitles": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

---

What it is good for

• AI / RAG & Transcript Mining — turn on downloadSubtitles: true (subtitlesFormat: "txt") to feed YouTube knowledge straight into Claude, GPT, LangChain, or n8n workflows.
• Content & Viral Trend Research — see what is ranking for a topic right now with exact views, exact like-to-view ratios, and video tags (keywords).
• Creator Discovery — every video row includes channelId, channelUrl, and channelSubscriberCount. Pass discovered channels straight into YouTube Channel Scraper Pro to pull their full video catalogue and comments.

More actors from this author

• YouTube Channel Finder & Lead Scraper — find YouTube channels by keyword with subscriber counts & emails ($0.70–$1.00 / 1k channels)
• YouTube Channel Scraper Pro — one channel to profile, every video, Shorts & comments
• Encar Scraper — Korean used-car listings with accident & inspection history