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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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$5.00 / 1,000 videos

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Total users

22K

Monthly users

4.6K

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>99%

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1.8 days

Last modified

5 days ago

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Download of video file is not working

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Mike_RCS opened this issue
6 months ago

Hi, downloading videos from the temporary googlevideo.com link which is returned in the formats field of the JSON response is not working anymore.

svpetrenko avatar

Hi! Thanks for reporting!

We'll try to fix this. I'll notify you here when it's done

AT

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5 months ago

We're running into a similar issue. Is there a fix for this coming soon?

svpetrenko avatar

Hi! Not yet, but we'll try to prioritize it more

AT

athletic_trophy

5 months ago

Is there an ETA?

svpetrenko avatar

Hi! No, but we have started working on it

AT

athletic_trophy

5 months ago

Same question again. What's the latest? This is a proprietary managed by Apify. Other libraries already exist for this on npm. I have to use apify and other big libraries to get the data we need right now. Very annoying and questions why we use apify compared to cheaper competitors that don't have managed actors

svpetrenko avatar

Hi again! We have been working on it all this time, but we now see that we most likely won't be able to implement this in the foreseeable future here, because it would require significantly more resources and most likely go against our current pricing and acceptable performance. Sorry for this. For now I can only recommend to use yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) - it is great at generating these URLs

I'll keep the issue open in case we come up with a suitable solution. For now we'll most likely just make the formats output empty and remove the warnings from the logs

ruocco-l avatar

Hello and thank you for your patience. Due to blocking from YT we completely eliminated the formats property from the output. If you still wish to download videos from YouTube, please use our [Youtube Video Downloader]. You can also integrate it directly in your workflow so you can download the video scraped with this YouTube Scraper. For more information about integrations visit https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/actors.

I'll go ahead and close this issue but feel free to ask more questions if you need to.