YouTube Channel & Shorts Scraper — Viral Videos, Views/Hour, Comments

Scrape any YouTube channel's Videos and Shorts tabs, or run keyword searches with upload-date and sort filters, and get every video as clean JSON with velocity metrics (views per hour / per day since upload). Turn on details for exact view count, likes, comment count, publish date, description, hashtags and pull the top comments. No API key, no quota, no browser — $1 per 1,000 videos.

Who uses this

• Clippers & short-form editors — find the videos exploding right now (searchQueries + "This week" + "View count" → viewsPerHour), then clip them.
• Creators & channel managers — benchmark competitors: median views, outperformers (≥3× median), like rate, comments per 1k views (free channel-summary row).
• Agencies & sponsors — vet channels before a deal: subscribers, cadence, real engagement, top videos.
• Researchers / trend tools — schedule keyword searches hourly and feed the dataset into your own scoring.

Input

Field	Description
channels	Channel URLs, @handles or UC… ids.
searchQueries	YouTube searches.
videoUrls	Video URLs/IDs → details (and comments).
contentType	both / videos / shorts.
maxVideos	Per channel tab and per search type (max 1000).
channelSort	latest / popular / oldest for the channel Videos tab.
uploadedWithin, sortBy	Search filters: hour/today/week/month/year × relevance/upload_date/view_count/rating.
minViews	Free pre-filter.
includeDetails	Exact views/likes/comments/date/description per video.
maxCommentsPerVideo	Top comments per video (requires details).

{ "searchQueries": ["air fryer recipe"], "contentType": "shorts", "uploadedWithin": "week", "sortBy": "view_count", "maxVideos": 100, "includeDetails": true, "maxCommentsPerVideo": 20 }

Output

video (channel card):

{ "type": "video", "position": 1, "videoId": "gTKS8SAwUzE", "title": "We Survived The Most Extreme Places On Earth", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKS8SAwUzE",
  "viewCount": 49000000, "publishedText": "1 day ago", "publishedAt": "2026-09-06T10:59:05Z", "durationSec": 1408, "isShort": false,
  "channelName": "MrBeast", "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA", "channelHandle": "@MrBeast", "channelSubscribers": 516000000,
  "hoursSincePublished": 24, "viewsPerHour": 2041666.7, "viewsPerDay": 49000000, "source": "channel" }

video with includeDetails adds: likeCount, commentCount, exact publishedAt (publishedDateText), description, hashtags, channelSubscribers, likeRatePct, commentsPer1kViews, isPremiere, wasLive.

comment:

{ "type": "comment", "videoId": "kJQP7kiw5Fk", "commentId": "Ugz…", "text": "who's here after 9 billion??", "author": "@YouTube", "authorChannelId": "UC…", "authorIsVerified": true,
  "likeCount": 78000, "replyCount": 973, "publishedText": "4 months ago", "publishedAt": "2026-05-10T…" }

channel-summary (free): subscriberCount, videoCount, videosScanned, shortsScanned, medianViews, avgViews, topVideoId/Title/Views, medianViewsPerHour, outperformers[].

Unavailable videos / unresolvable channels are pushed as type: "failed" and are never charged.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Video card	$0.001
Video (detailed)	$0.002
Comment	$0.0005
Actor start	$0.001

1,000 videos ≈ $1 · 1,000 detailed ≈ $2 · 1,000 comments ≈ $0.50.

Notes

• Card viewCount is YouTube's rounded figure ("49M"); includeDetails gives the exact number. Shorts cards have no upload age (YouTube doesn't show it) — details add the exact date.
• publishedAt on cards is estimated from "x days ago"; details give the real date.
• Search honours YouTube's own filters; "Shorts" results are detected from the Shorts shelf and /shorts/ links.
• Need transcripts? See our YouTube Transcript Scraper. Need TikTok/Amazon product data? See the other actors on this profile.

Changelog

• 0.0.6 (10 Sep 2026) — Maintenance: billing safety (chargeSafely — a failed charge can no longer kill a run that already has data), test suite wiring, README.
• 0.0.1 (7 Sep 2026) — Launch.

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