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.

Scrape YouTube search results using a search term, or directly input a video, channel, or results page URL. Feel free to try it out with our default settings by hitting &#9655; Start. If you need any help, have a read through <a href='https://blog.apify.com/how-to-scrape-youtube/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>this tutorial</a>.

Select Youtube upload date filter for search

Date filter

If set to true, the scraper will download subtitles for the video and convert them to .srt format.

Download subtitles

Will apply the Creative Commons filter for search

Creative Commons

Will apply the Location filter for search

Location

Will apply the Subtitles/CC filter for search

Subtitles/CC

Will apply the 360 degrees filter for search

360 degrees

Will apply the Purchased filter for search

Purchased

What you could select under the Features section of the Filtering&Sorting menu on Youtube

Live

VR180

Select Youtube video length filter for search

Length filter

Limit the number of Stream videos you want to crawl.

Maximum streams

Limit the number of videos you want to crawl. If you scrape a channel, acts as a limit for regular videos.

Maximum search results

Limit the number of Shorts videos you want to crawl.

Maximum shorts

Only posts uploaded after or on this date will be scraped. Note, that if you select this, sorting parameter will be auto-reset to NEWEST

Settings in this section are applicable only to Channel videos. If you want to expand it to additional filters, file an issue

Only newer than (e.g. 2023-06-15)

If set to true, automatically generated subtitles are preferred to user subtitles.Note: A subtitle language must be selected for this option to work.

Prefer automatically generated subtitles.

If set to true, the scraper will save the downloaded subtitles to the key-value store. Note: Download subtitles must be turned on for this option to work.

Save subtitles to key-value store

Specify how old scraped videos can be (in days). Putting <code>1</code> will get you only today's videos, <code>2</code> - tomorrow's and today's, and so on. If the <code>Only newer than</code> field was set, the most recent one will be chosen. Note, that if you select this, sorting parameter will be auto-reset to NEWEST

Videos from last (e.g. 2) days

Enter a search term just like you would enter it in YouTube's search bar.

Search term

Maps to the three sorting buttons on the top of the channel videos page. Currently only applies to the main tab: Videos.

Sort videos by

Select Youtube sorting parameter for search

Specify the parameters you want to sort/filter videos by. They will be applied as if you manually did so on Youtube's search page. Only works if you provide search term, not for the direct URLs

Sorting order

Enter a link to a <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xObhZ0Ga7EQ' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>YouTube video</a>, <a href='https://www.youtube.com/c/Apify' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>channel</a>, <a href='https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLObrtcm1Kw6PmbXg8bmfJN-o2Hgx8sidf' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>playlist</a> or <a href='https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=crawlee' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>search results page</a>. You can also import a CSV file or Google Sheet with a list of URLs. Note: Input from Search term will be ignored when using this option. If you only want to scrape shorts/streams, set Maximum search results to 0, otherwise they represented number of regular videos requested

Direct URLs

Select in what format you want to download subtitles

Subtitle format

Language to download subtitles in. Note: Download subtitles must be turned on for this option to work.

Subtitle language

Select Youtube video type filter for search

Video type filter

Input schema for the youtube-search-scraper actor

youtube-scraper

Extract YouTube channel data, video metadata, subscribers, views, subtitles, streams, playlists, search results, number of comments, and likes.

Youtube Scraper

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