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YouTube Channel Scraper - Videos, Playlists, Comments, Stats

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Channel, playlist and video data from YouTube: titles, views, likes, duration, publish dates and comments. Search is NOT available from Apify - YouTube answers 302 to its datacenter addresses, measured three runs in a row - so this Actor works from channel, playlist and video addresses instead.

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$2.99 / 1,000 result rows

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7 days ago

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Categories

Social media

Videos

For creators

🔍 Search terms

searchQueries

Optional

One YouTube search per line. A plain search stops at 289 videos per term - YouTube itself stops handing out the next page there. Turn on Deep search below to go past it. Note: YouTube refuses search requests coming from Apify's datacenter addresses (measured: HTTP 302 on three runs in a row), so search returns nothing here. Channel, playlist and video addresses in Start URLs do work.

Type:array

Default:

[]

🔗 YouTube URLs

startUrls

Optional

Video, channel, @handle or playlist addresses. Bare IDs work too: a video ID, a UC... channel ID or a PL... playlist ID.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA"
]

Search for

searchFor

Optional

What the search terms should return. Shorts are a separate listing on YouTube's side: asking for videos excludes them and asking for shorts excludes regular videos.

Type:string

Default:videos

Options:

videosshortslivechannelsplaylists

🚀 Deep search (go past YouTube's 289-video ceiling)

deepSearch

Optional

Only affects keyword search, which does not work from Apify's datacenter addresses (YouTube answers HTTP 302; measured three runs in a row). Leave it off unless you run this Actor somewhere else. Runs the same term as up to 64 separate searches - four sort orders x four upload windows x four durations - and merges them. Measured on 'excavator repair': 289 videos without it, 3860 with it, 13.4x more. Costs more requests, so raise 'Max results per search term' to match. That 13.4x figure was measured off-platform and is NOT reachable from a run here.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max results per search term

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

Stop collecting a term after this many rows. Also the per-tab limit for a channel and the per-playlist limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:100000

Default:100

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

Handed to YouTube itself, so it filters before you are charged for a row.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedateviewsrating

Uploaded within

uploadDate

Optional

Handed to YouTube inside the request. Non-matching videos never reach your dataset and never reach your bill.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Duration

videoDuration

Optional

YouTube's own duration buckets. Shorts carry no duration at all, so this filter and a Shorts search cannot be combined.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyshortmediumlong

Must have

features

Optional

YouTube's own feature filters. Several may be combined.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Channel tabs to read

channelTabs

Optional

Only used for channel and @handle addresses.

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "videos"
]

Fetch full video details

includeVideoDetails

Optional

Opens each video page for the exact view count, like count, comment count, full description, tags, category and the publication date to the second. One extra request per video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Fetch comments

includeComments

Optional

Adds one row per comment, with author, likes, replies and a direct link. Comments are rows too, so they count towards Max rows.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Comments per video

maxCommentsPerVideo

Optional

Comments to take from each video, newest or top first depending on the order below. Zero switches comments off.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:20

Comment order

commentsSortBy

Optional

Top comments are the ones YouTube ranks highest; newest first is the raw chronological feed.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewest

Title contains any of

titleContains

Optional

Case-insensitive. A row whose title is unknown is kept, not dropped - the count of such rows is in the REPORT record.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Channel name contains

channelContains

Optional

Case-insensitive substring of the channel name. A row whose channel is unknown is kept, not dropped.

Type:string

Default:

Minimum views

minViews

Optional

Rows with fewer views are dropped before they are written. A row with no view count is kept, not dropped.

Type:integer

Maximum views

maxViews

Optional

Rows with more views are dropped before they are written. A row with no view count is kept, not dropped.

Type:integer

Minimum duration

minDurationSeconds

Optional

Rows shorter than this are dropped before they are written. Shorts and channels carry no duration, so they are kept, not dropped.

Type:integer

Maximum duration

maxDurationSeconds

Optional

Rows longer than this are dropped before they are written. Shorts and channels carry no duration, so they are kept, not dropped.

Type:integer

Published after

publishedAfter

Optional

YYYY-MM-DD. Search listings carry only '4 years ago', so the date used is an estimate unless 'Fetch full video details' is on.

Type:string

Default:

Published before

publishedBefore

Optional

YYYY-MM-DD.

Type:string

Default:

Only new and changed rows

onlyNew

Optional

Remembers what earlier runs delivered in a named key-value store and writes only what is new or changed. Scheduled runs stop paying for the same rows twice.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Emit unchanged rows too

emitUnchanged

Optional

Brings back the rows that have not changed as well, marked UNCHANGED, when you want a full snapshot rather than a diff.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max rows

maxItems

Optional

Hard stop on delivered rows, comments included. Zero means no limit.

Type:integer

Compact output

compactOutput

Optional

Fifteen decision-making columns instead of all of them. Handy for AI agents and small files.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Drop empty fields

dropEmptyFields

Optional

Removes null cells from every row entirely, instead of returning them empty. Smaller files, fewer tokens for an AI agent.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Language (hl)

language

Optional

Two-letter interface language. It changes the wording YouTube returns, such as '4 years ago'.

Type:string

Default:en

Country (gl)

country

Optional

Two-letter country code. YouTube ranks and filters results per country.

Type:string

Default:US

Parallel detail requests

concurrency

Optional

How many video or channel pages are opened at the same time. Higher is faster and more likely to make YouTube ask you to slow down.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10

Default:4

Read URLs from a dataset

inputDatasetId

Optional

Dataset ID of another Actor's output. Its rows feed YouTube URLs into this run.

Type:string

Default:

Field holding the URL

urlField

Optional

Which column of that dataset holds the YouTube address.

Type:string

Default:url

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