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YouTube Scraper: Videos, Channels & Search

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Extract YouTube videos from keywords, channels and video URLs. Get views, subscribers, dates, duration and thumbnails, with optional comments and related links. Export JSON, CSV or Excel. No YouTube API key required. See README for pricing by Apify plan.

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from $0.40 / 1,000 videos

Rating

5.0

(2)

Developer

Steafanie Braid

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Monthly active users

21 hours ago

Last modified

2026-10-30

Videos that YouTube refuses to show through one proxy address, for example with a "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" check, are now retried through other proxy addresses before the input fails.
Pages that are still unreadable after three tries are now retried through other proxy addresses.
YouTube API calls for comments, related videos and further result pages are now retried through other proxy addresses after network or server errors.
Retries take turns across proxy addresses, so the extra requests are spread evenly.
When a video loads through another proxy address after a bot check, its comments, subscriber count and related videos are fetched through the same address.
Removed, private and age-restricted videos are not retried through other proxy addresses.
A failed run now states how many inputs failed for each reason, such as bot checks, unreadable pages or unavailable videos.
Copyright-claimed, members-only and age-restricted videos are counted as unavailable videos in that summary.
Errors without a message, such as some timeouts, now name the error type.
Abort and timeout warnings now identify progress snapshots and include their observation time. Counts can increase before shutdown.
Interrupted runs now attempt to save a bounded RUN_SUMMARY snapshot. A completed runner replaces this snapshot with its final summary.
Timeout diagnostics now include active operations, their targets, and elapsed time.
Error reports for failed, timed-out and aborted runs now list which inputs were lost and why, so problems are found and fixed faster.
Runs that needed other proxy addresses are now reported, so blocks on the main proxy address are noticed early.

2026-10-29

Videos from lists of video URLs now download six at a time.
Progress for video URL lists is now saved once per group of up to 50 videos instead of four times per video.
Groups are smaller when many comments are requested, so each progress save stays small.
Resurrected runs now retry inputs that failed.
Resurrected runs now continue inputs that stopped at the spending limit after the limit is raised, without saving the same video twice.
Search, channel and video pages that YouTube returns without their data are now retried before the input fails.
Errors for unreadable pages now name the HTTP status, size, path and title of the page YouTube returned.

2026-10-21

Added persistent progress and pending-batch reconciliation for server migrations and resumed runs.
Preserved cumulative output counts and input outcomes across restarts.
Added recovery for expired continuation tokens without repeating saved videos from the same input.
Resumed runs now read the rows actually saved in the dataset instead of trusting its item count, which can lag behind. This stops false recovery errors without risking duplicate rows.
Updated the Store documentation, examples, pricing explanation, and dataset overview.
Added four public example Task configurations and a related-video research tutorial.
Added a short recording of a sample run and its CSV export to the README.
Added example records observed on October 21, 2026 to the README.
Updated the Actor description to list views, subscribers, dates, duration and thumbnails.

2026-10-19

Subscriber counts are now looked up through each channel's permanent ID when YouTube provides it, instead of its handle, for more reliable counts. Channel links in results are unchanged.
Added error monitoring, so failed runs are noticed and fixed faster.
Error reports mask passwords, cookies, tokens and proxy credentials, and leave out scraped results.

2026-09-17

Added support for current YouTube channel video cards and alternate page formats.
Set the public-page cookie preference to reject optional cookies.
Corrected consent detection so incidental links do not block valid video data.
Restored subscriber counts and legacy comment extraction.
Added video IDs, durations, and thumbnail URLs to results.
Added a run summary (RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store) with the outcome of every input.
Failed inputs now fail the run and preserve completed results.
Updated the Apify SDK to 4.0.2.
Added automatic handling of the run's payment limit.
Prepared tier prices of $0.50, $0.45, and $0.40 per 1,000 videos for the rental migration.

2026-04-18

Fixed the default no-input run so Apify health checks complete successfully.
Replaced the old brittle scraping flow with parsing based on current ytInitialData, ytInitialPlayerResponse, and ytcfg payloads.
Fixed search and channel pagination to use YouTube continuation endpoints.
Fixed sorting search results by upload date.
Normalized channel root URLs to /videos automatically.
Added support for bare channel handles and scheme-less channel URLs such as @Google and youtube.com/@Google.
Removed unrelated result collection caused by loose video ID extraction from raw HTML.
Search and channel runs now emit list-page items first and only use watch pages for optional enrichment.
Added lightweight per-unique-channel subscriber hydration with a bounded cache for search results.
Channel results now take subscriber counts from the channel page header.
Added explicit blocked/interstitial watch-page detection and fallback logging.
Added proxy configuration through environment variables with redacted logging.
Restored best-effort top-level comment scraping through watch-page continuation requests while keeping fail-soft behavior.
Made related videos fail soft instead of failing the full run.
Updated the local/runtime dependency pin to apify == 1.7.2.
Updated the README and .actor metadata to match the current actor behavior.

2024-06-07

Updated scraping for changes in YouTube's internal API.
Comments are now read from YouTube's new comment data format.

2023-06-03

Adjusted the search parameter for sorting results by upload date.

2023-05-25

Search terms in non-Latin scripts, such as Korean, now work.
Multi-word search terms are now encoded word by word.
Log messages now name the original search term instead of the search URL.

2023-05-18

Added channel video scraping through /videos URLs.
Added the old clean input flag.
Fixed missing related_videos in output when no related videos were found.

2023-04-26

Added related video scraping, with a new "Get Related Videos" input.
Queries can now be video links, including Shorts links, as well as search terms.
Updated input titles and descriptions.
Updated the README.

2023-04-22

Inputs are now processed in the order given, without a request queue.
Added machine size guidance to the README: 256 MB works, though slowly, when few comments are requested.

2023-04-21

Results are now saved in batches instead of one request per video, which cuts API requests.
Videos that fail to load are now logged and left out of the saved batch.
Documented that search collects regular videos only, not Shorts.
Replaced raw debug output with progress logs.

2023-04-20

Added comment scraping.
Added the num_comments input to set how many comments to collect per video.
Rewrote the README.

2023-04-19

First release: search YouTube by keyword, with a result limit and sorting by relevance, upload date, views or rating.
Results include the title, views, publication date, subscribers, channel link, channel name, video link and scrape date.
Fixed view counts missing from results.
Expanded the Actor description.

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