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YouTube Scraper: Videos, Shorts, Channels & Comments

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Fast YouTube scraper with no browser and no API key: keyword search with filters, channel videos and Shorts, channel About data, playlists, video details (exact likes, date, description) and comments with replies. $1.00 per 1,000 results.

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Developer

subimpact

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Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

6 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

Lead generation

Features

Search Queries

searchQueries

Optional

Keyword searches to run. Each query yields up to 'maxResultsPerQuery' results.

Type:array

Start URLs

startUrls

Optional

YouTube URLs: videos (/watch?v=, youtu.be), Shorts (/shorts/), channels (@handle, /channel/, /c/, /user/) or playlists (?list=).

Type:array

Max Results Per Search Query

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

Maximum rows per search query.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:20

Max Items Per Channel Or Playlist URL

maxVideosPerChannel

Optional

Maximum video/short rows per channel or playlist URL.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:5000

Default:20

Channel Source

channelSource

Optional

How channel URLs are scraped. 'tabs' reads the channel Videos/Shorts tabs over YouTube's internal API. 'rss' reads YouTube's public uploads feed (one small request per channel, the 15 newest uploads including Shorts and live streams). Video URLs and searchQueries behave the same in both modes.

Type:string

Default:tabs

Options:

tabsrss

Only New Videos (RSS mode)

onlyNewVideos

Optional

RSS mode: deliver only video ids not delivered by an earlier run of this actor. Delivered ids are kept in a named key-value store in your account (stateStoreName). Leave off for the first run.

Type:boolean

Default:false

State Store Name

stateStoreName

Optional

Named key-value store that holds the delivered ids for onlyNewVideos. 1-63 letters, digits or dashes.

Type:string

Max. length:63

Default:youtube-scraper-state

Published After (RSS mode)

publishedAfter

Optional

RSS mode: skip feed entries published before this date or datetime, for example 2026-10-01 or 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z. Leave empty for no cutoff.

Type:string

Channel Content

channelContent

Optional

Which tab to scrape for channel URLs ('videos', 'shorts' or 'both'). A /@handle/shorts URL always forces Shorts.

Type:string

Default:videos

Options:

videosshortsboth

Include Channel Info

includeChannelInfo

Optional

For every channel URL, also deliver one 'channel' row with subscriber counts, About-panel info and links.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Search Sort By

searchSortBy

Optional

Sort order for search results.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedateviewsrating

Search Upload Date Filter

searchUploadDate

Optional

Upload-date filter for search results.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Include Shorts In Search

searchIncludeShorts

Optional

Also extract Shorts rows from search result shelves.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Enrich Video Details

enrichVideoDetails

Optional

Fetch the video page for every result for exact like counts, exact publish date, full description and comment count. One extra request per video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Scrape Comments

scrapeComments

Optional

Also scrape comments for each video (adds 'comment' rows to the dataset).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max Comments Per Video

maxCommentsPerVideo

Optional

Maximum TOP-LEVEL comment rows per video. Replies are capped separately by Max Replies Per Comment and do not count toward this limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10000

Default:20

Comments Sort By

commentsSortBy

Optional

Comment order: 'top' (most upvoted) or 'newest'.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewest

Include Comment Replies

includeReplies

Optional

Also scrape replies to comments.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max Replies Per Comment

maxRepliesPerComment

Optional

Maximum reply rows per comment thread. Reply rows do not count toward Max Comments Per Video.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:5

Max Total Results (All Inputs)

maxTotalResults

Optional

Global cap on total rows across all inputs. Hard stop: no rows past this number.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000000

Default:1000

Max Concurrency

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many inputs are processed in parallel. Pagination inside one input is sequential.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20

Default:5

Language

language

Optional

Interface language code (hl), e.g. 'en'.

Type:string

Default:en

Country

country

Optional

Two-letter country code (gl), e.g. 'US'.

Type:string

Default:US

Proxy Configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Optional. Proxies are usually not needed: the scrape works over plain HTTPS from datacenter IPs. Enable Apify Proxy only for high volumes.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": false
}

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