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YouTube Scraper: Videos, Channels, Comments & Shorts

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Get YouTube videos from searches, channels, playlists and links with exact views, likes, comment counts, dates and tags, plus channel profiles and comments. Monitor channels for new videos.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 videos

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0.0

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Developer

Stratum ICS

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Total users

Monthly active users

2 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

Search terms

searchQueries

Optional

Words to search on YouTube, one per line, exactly as you would type them in the YouTube search box. A copied YouTube search link (youtube.com/results?search_query=...) works too and keeps its filters.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Channels

channels

Optional

Channel links or handles, one per line: @mkbhd, https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, a /channel/UC... link, an old /c/ or /user/ link, or a bare channel id. A link to one tab (for example youtube.com/@mkbhd/shorts) reads only that tab. Videos come newest first.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Video links

videoUrls

Optional

Links to single videos or Shorts (watch, youtu.be, shorts, live and embed links all work), or bare 11-character video ids. Every video link gets full details: likes, exact date, full description, tags and comment count.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Playlist links

playlistUrls

Optional

Playlist links (youtube.com/playlist?list=...) or bare playlist ids. Videos come in the playlist's own order.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Maximum results per input

maxResultsPerInput

Optional

The most videos (or channels and playlists, for those search types) to save from each search term, each channel tab and each playlist. YouTube itself stops search results at about 500 to 600 per term. Set 0 with channels to get only the channel profiles. Video links are not limited by this.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:20000

Default:50

Search for

searchType

Optional

What a search returns: videos, Shorts, channels (saved as channel profiles) or playlists.

Type:string

Default:video

Options:

videoshortschannelplaylist

Upload date

uploadDate

Optional

Only videos uploaded within this period, as YouTube's filter defines it.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Duration

duration

Optional

Only videos of this length.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyunder3from3to20over20

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

Relevance and view count are YouTube's own orders, except for Shorts: YouTube no longer sorts Shorts by view count, so the scraper reads them and saves the most viewed first. YouTube no longer sorts searches by upload date either, so Newest first reads the results and saves them newest first; pair it with Upload date for recent videos.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedateviews

Channel tabs

channelTabs

Optional

Which tabs to read for each channel: long videos, Shorts, and past or current live streams. Each tab gets up to the maximum results per input.

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "videos"
]

Save the channel profile

includeChannelInfo

Optional

Save one channel row per channel input: name, handle, id, subscribers, video count, total views, join date, country, description, links, avatar and banner.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Get full video details

includeVideoDetails

Optional

Open every video found by searches, channels and playlists for its like count, comment count, exact publish date and time, full description, links in the description, tags and category. Costs extra per video (see Pricing). Video links always get details.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Get comments

includeComments

Optional

Save the comments of every video the run finds, each as its own row.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Maximum comments per video

maxCommentsPerVideo

Optional

The most comments (replies included) to save per video. 0 means every comment YouTube lists, which can be tens of thousands on popular videos, so set a limit to control cost.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:1000000

Default:0

Comment order

commentsSortBy

Optional

Top comments (YouTube's default order) or newest first.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewest

Include replies

includeCommentReplies

Optional

Also save the replies under each comment. Replies count toward the maximum comments per video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Only videos newer than

newerThan

Optional

Keep videos published on or after this date. Use a date (2026-10-01), an ISO date-time in UTC (2026-10-01T12:00:00Z), or a relative value such as "7 days" or "12 hours". Channels stop reading at the first older video, and dates near the cut-off are checked exactly. Searches use YouTube's upload-date filter as well. Video links are not filtered.

Type:string

Default:

Only new videos (monitoring)

onlyNewVideos

Optional

For channels: return only videos that earlier runs with the same monitor name have not returned. The first run returns the newest videos up to the maximum and saves each channel profile; later runs (for example on a schedule) return only what was posted since, without repeating the profile. Upcoming premieres are left out until they go live.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Monitor name

monitorName

Optional

Name of the memory that monitoring runs share (letters, digits and hyphens). Use one name per schedule; runs with different names do not affect each other.

Type:string

Default:default

Language

language

Optional

Language YouTube uses for titles (when creators translated them) and for its own texts. Pick one or type any YouTube language code. In languages other than English, each video's exact date and views are read with one extra small request.

Type:string

Default:en

Country

country

Optional

Country whose YouTube you see: it changes search ranking and which videos are available. Pick one or type any two-letter country code.

Type:string

Default:US

Parallel requests

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many requests to YouTube run at once. The default is fast and stays under YouTube's limits; higher values finish sooner but are more likely to be refused.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20

Default:8

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

YouTube answers Apify's servers directly, so no proxy is needed. If YouTube starts rate-limiting a run, it switches to Apify datacenter proxy on its own. Pick a proxy here only to use one from the start.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": false
}

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