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This alternative YouTube Data API has no limits or quotas. Extract YouTube comments data from one or multiple YouTube videos: full comment text, posting date, author username, video title, videoId. Download YouTube comments in JSON, CSV, and Excel.

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This changelog summarizes all changes of the Youtube actors provided by the Streamers organization. If some change affects only a subset of actors, they will be listed in parentheses.

2025-09-02

Features

Untranslated version is now extracted for title and text output fields. If there is a translation, it is put under translatedTitle/translatedText Performance
Improved initial and subsequent performance scraping speed

2025-08-15

Changes

You can now scrape channel metadata by providing a channel URL in startUrls and setting all video result limits (maxResults, maxResultsShorts, maxResultStreams) to 0

2025-06-23

Changes

When scraping for comments, an output item without comments will contain error and note properties to explain why no comments were scraped. (streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2025-06-19

Fixes

Fixed OOM error on finish for runs with many results

2025-06-11

Fixes

Bypassed new blocking for extracting subtitles

2025-06-02

Fixes

Subtitle extraction

2025-04-25

Input

Input schemas now support oldesPostDate in a relative format. See input UI for details. Old input is still valid

2025-05-06

Fixes

The erroneous items pushed in the dataset now contains the aboutChannelInfo, if this is eventually captured during the run.
Also, the items contain a new error property to quickly detect the cause that generated the item.
The error property will be one of this strings: CHANNEL_DOES_NOT_EXIST, NOT_FOUND, VIDEO_UNAVAILABLE, AGE_RESTRICTED, CHANNEL_HAS_NO_VIDEOS, CHANNEL_HAS_NO_LIVE_VIDEOS, CHANNEL_HAS_NO_SHORTS, DATE_FILTER_TOO_STRICT, NO_VIDEOS, NO_RESULTS, NO_VALID_START_URLS, INVALID_INPUT.

2025-04-22

Fixes

Channels with about in their name are correctly scraped now (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper)

2025-04-07

Features

The property scheduledStartTime is now scraped, both from detail page and from channels' live tab

2025-04-03

Changes

Will not output time in date if the date on the page contained no specific time.
Reduced number of navigations when scraping shorts with date filters

2025-03-31

Features

When scraping a detail page for a video or a short, the isMembersOnly boolean property is added to the dataset item

2025-03-18

Fixes

Output items from lists should now contain order property (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper)
thumbnailUrl is extracted for shorts pages (streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper, streamers/youtube-scraper)

2025-03-06

Fixes

When scraping a short it will detect blocking and retry (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper)

2025-02-24

Fixes

Duration extraction for short videos has been returned (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper, streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper)

2025-01-29

Features

Now the scrapers accept https://www.youtube.com/live/VIDEO_ID formatted urls as startUrls for scraping a video, short or livestream. (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper, streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper, streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2025-01-27

Changes

formats output property now is always empty, until we find a better way to reliably extract the source media file URLs (streamers/youtube-scraper)

2025-01-08

Fixes

Date filtering is applied to shorts correctly (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper, streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper)

2025-01-06

Features

Can now scrape auto-generated topic channels (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper) Fixes
Can scrape some previously unsupported channels (like Cisco) (``streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper`)

2024-12-23

Fixes

Can now scrape age-restricted videos

2024-12-11

Fixes

Channel username is now correctly extracted for shorts (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper, streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper)
Fixed extraction of channel URLs and channel IDs (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper, streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper)

2024-12-09

Features

Can now scrape comments on shorts (streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2024-12-04

BREAKING

If values in any of the maxResults* input properties are omitted, they are initialized to zeroes to avoid unintentional infinite scraping. If you actually want to scrape all the videos, make sure to initialize these fields to e.g. 9999999 Features
Channel usernames are now extracted (streamers/youtube-scraper, streamers/youtube-channel-scraper)

2024-11-25

Changes

Input for search terms is now a stringList (a list of strings) instead of a regular string (streamers/youtube-scraper) Features
Added input output property for search items (streamers/youtube-scraper)

2024-11-21

Fixes

Video count is extracted correctly for channels

2024-11-18

BREAKING

All actors now require at least 1GB of run memory Fixes
A dataset result with an error note is pushed for blocked channels (or any channels that are inaccessible for some reason) instead of failing

2024-10-29

Fixes

Comments are now again collected if you select sorting order (streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2024-10-01

Features

The URL to the source media file is now extracted for regular videos (formats output property). Although it usually only is in 360p resolution, it combines both audio and video, and we plan to extract sources of better resolutions in the future, as well as sources for shorts. The URL has an expiration time of several hours

2024-09-20

Fixes

Exact upload date is extracted again

2024-09-10

Fixes

Shorts are now extracted for channels

2024-08-29

Features

Added scraping functionality for hashtags (streamers/youtube-scraper)
- Scrape all video type hashtags https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/apify
- Scrape shorts only hashtags https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/apify/shorts
We will soon release a standalone scraper for hashtags :)

Fixes

Sub count is now extracted correctly

2024-08-21

Fixes

Fixed "Request batch insert failed" error when scraping search and channels (streamers/youtube-scraper)

2024-08-19

Features

You can now select comment sorting option in the input (streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2024-08-08

Fixes

Fixed cases when scraper would get stuck in a row of errors when date filter was reached

2024-07-29

Fixes

Detailed channel information is again extracted correctly when you provide channel URLs

2024-07-18

Fixes

Fixed date extraction for recently finished premieres

2024-07-17

Features

Hashtag info has been added to the output (the once in the super-title, above description; hashtags from description are separately present in descriptionLinks) (streamers/youtube-scraper)
isAgeRestricted channel attribute is now present in output items (except for direct video URLs) Fixes/BREAKING
Scraper now again can bypass YT blocking. However, the following attributes are currently missing:
- thumbnailUrl and duration if the video was scraped via a direct URL;
- duration for all cases with shorts;
- isMonetized in all cases
Correctly handles age-restricted channels by pushing just their channel info

2024-07-03

Fixes

Scraper now uses Datacenter proxies again, which should make it faster

2024-07-02

Features

Added published time with publishedTimeText property (streamers/youtube-comments)

2024-07-01

Fixes

Date filters for channels now work correctly

2024-06-29

Fixes

Restored functionality of the scraper
RESIDENTIAL proxies are now used

2024-05-14

Fixes

type field designating whether the video is a short, stream or a regular video has been added for missing cases
Shorts with turned off comments are now correctly scraped

2024-05-09

Fixes

Channel avatar, banner and isVerified fixed in several rare cases (*)

2024-04-30

Fixes

Fixed comments scraping and crawling issues (streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2024-04-17

Fixes

Approximate date filtering is now supported (streamers/youtube-channel-scraper)

2024-04-11

Features

If scraper doesn't collect any results (e.g. because the channel or search has no videos) it will push an "empty" item with input, URL and note about the reason why no results were collected.

2024-04-09

Features

shorts sorting/filtering by date has also been added to the input (streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper)

2024-04-05

Features

added isChannelVerified, channelAvatarUrl, channelBannerUrl fields to output when scraping channels

2024-04-02

Features

added "Any" subtitle language option to download all available subtitles

2024-03-06

Features

in addition to channel username, you can now also use channel link for the shorts scraper (streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper)

2024-02-29

Features

added support for shorts URLs
added shorts text (description), commentsCount and likes
added channelId to videos scraped from channel pages and from video detail pages, i.e. channelId won't be present when using search_query URL in streamers/youtube-channel-scraper.

2024-02-13

Fixes

BREAKING CHANGE: store total channel's views (channelTotalViews) as a number, not a string

2024-02-12

Features

Added type and replyToCid to comments (streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2024-02-06

Fixes

Fixed scraping voteCount in comments (streamers/youtube-comments-scraper)

2024-01-18

Fixes

Fixed scraping shorts when using searchKeywords

2024-01-16

Fixes

inputChannelUrl now contains unmodified URL from the input

Features

Added channelDescriptionLinks

2023-12-19

Fixes

Added missing thumbnailUrls field (streamers/youtube-channel)
Actor should now get correct number of results with respect to "Maximum search results" (streamers/youtube-scraper)

2023-12-07

Fixes

video likes extraction
apply date filters also to streams and shorts

2023-11-21

Fixes

Fixed pagination when using search keywords

2023-11-16

Features

add new comment fields: replyCount, voteCount, authorIsChannelOwner, hasCreatorHeart (streamers/youtube-comments)

2023-11-11

Fixes

Fixed pagination scraping - actor now scrapes more than just one page

2023-11-08

Fixes

Fixed channel info extraction after Youtube changed API

2023-11-01

Features

Scrape shorts' date and duration

2023-09-27

Fixes

Fix numberofubscribers extraction (streamers/youtube-main)

Features

Added isMonetized field for video detail (streamers/youtube-main)

2023-09-12

Features

Added basic sorting/filtering for channel videos. More might be coming in the future (streamers/youtube-main, streamers/youtube-channel)

2023-08-28

Fixes

For some videos not all comments used to get scraped, this is now fixed (streamers/youtube-comments)

2023-08-17

Fixes

Proxy is again used

Features

You can now apply search filters and sorting in the input (streamers/youtube-main)

2023-08-14

Fixes

The scraper now again respects limits, which were broken in the previous release (*).

Features

The search workflow now can also pick up Shorts and Live videos from the corresponding tabs. Set the appropriate limits for each type of videos.

2023-07-31

Input changes

You are allowed to pass 0 to the max limits for shorts/streams (bernardo/youtube-scraper).

2023-07-25

Fixes

The scraper now correctly extracts comment count for big videos

2023-07-24

Fixes

The scraper can now correctly scrape videos without a description

2023-07-07

Features

Now videos have fromYTUrl and inputChannelUrl fields in the output. The first one tells on what page the video was scraped, the other one will point to the channel url as specified in the input (it may differ from channelUrl, although both will lead to the same channel).

2023-07-06

Features

Autogenerated channels parsed as "recent" tab

2023-07-04

Fixes

Subs are now pushed to dataset items, as they used to be

2023-06-22

Fixes

If a channel doesn't exist, the scraper can now detect it, and will not retry to scrape this channel

2023-06-20

Features

You can now select in what format to save subtitles: plaintext, vtt, srt or xml

Fixes

Now the scraper better handles some subtitle locales (for some of them, it would often not download subtitles, because it couldn't match fr with fr-FR, for example)

2023-06-02

Features

You can now input playlist URLs (in the format of https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLObrtcm1Kw6PmbXg8bmfJN-o2Hgx8sidf) and scrape all videos from it.

Fixes

You can now submit URLs in the youtu.be/id format. In addition, if you submit some incorrect URLs, they will just be skipped, without exiting the scraper as before.

2023-06-01 (0.0.107)

BREAKING CHANGES

Removed dislikes field from the output as they are no longer publicly available.
Removed details field from the output, which was a full HTML version of the description. Use text and descriptionLinks instead.

Features

Added descriptionLinks field to the output, which contains all links found in the description. Some of them would not be extracted by the text field alone.

Changes

The scraper is now significantly faster (and thus cheaper) because it no longer requires a full browser interaction.
extendOutputFunction and extendScraperFunction are deprecated. They will still be supported and we will reach out to users that regularly use it before we completely remove them.

Fixes

Scrolling through videos can now be restored from any point which makes the scraper much more reliable

2023-04-25

Fixes

Video duration is now correctly extracted
Description is now correctly extracted

2023-03-29

Update

Added new fields to the output in case of processing channelUrl: { "channelTotalVideos": 3200, "channelDescription": "Learn how to speak English with the BBC...", "channelLocation": "United Kingdom", "channelJoinedDate": "Jun 17, 2008", "channelTotalViews": "261,770,375", }

2023-03-29

Feautures

Added "saveStreams" feature.

2023-02-22

Features

Added thumbnailUrl to video item output

2023-01-13

Fixes

Extract the title text only without html
Extract the description full urls

2022-11-30

Feautures

Added "saveShorts" feature.

2022-07-20

Fixes

Correctly handle videos with comments turned off.
Add commentsTurnedOff to output.

2022-06-10

Fixes:

Channel page without /watch selector

2021-09-15

Features

Add possibility to scrape video comments. See maxComments input field.

2021-06-16 Features

Revamped subtitles downloading - added possibility to download all available subtitles (availability defined by languages) and to prefer automatically generated subtitles before the user generated ones.

2021-06-14 Features:

Add subtitle type to output (extendedOutputFunction). Note: You must set downloadSubtitles variable to true for this feature to take effect.

2021-06-11 Features:

Subtitles are now downloadable (saved to KeyValueStore as videoID_languageCode)

2021-05-21 Features:

Update SDK

Fixes

Random zero results when searching
Click consent dialog

2021-04-14 Fixes

Fixed changed selector that completely prevented the scrape

2021-03-21 Features:

Updated SDK version for session pool changes
Add handlePageTimeoutSecs parameter to INPUT_SCHEMA

2021-03-15 Fixes:

Fixed selector causing no data scraped
Removed stealth causing issues with new layout

2020-09-27

Increased waiting timeouts to better handle concurrency
Added saving screenshots on errors
Better handling of Captchas, a page is automatically retried and the browser is restarted with a new proxy
verboseLog is off by default
Added info how many videos were enqueued and overall better logging

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