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YouTube Scraper

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YouTube Scraper

YouTube Scraper

streamers/youtube-scraper
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Pay $5.00 for 1,000 videos

YouTube crawler and video scraper. Alternative YouTube API with no limits or quotas. Extract and download channel name, likes, number of views, and number of subscribers.

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You can access the YouTube Scraper programmatically from your own JavaScript applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "searchKeywords": "Crawlee",
12    "maxResults": 10,
13    "maxResultsShorts": 0,
14    "maxResultStreams": 0
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("streamers/youtube-scraper").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

📹 YouTube Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

npm install apify-client

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Actor Metrics

  • 1.7k monthly users

  • 194 stars

  • 87% runs succeeded

  • 3.8 days response time

  • Created in Jul 2023

  • Modified 12 hours ago