📺 YouTube Data Extractor

Extract YouTube video details, comments, transcripts, channel videos and search results — completely without a YouTube Data API key.

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✨ Features

Mode	What it extracts
video_details	Title, description, view count, like count, comment count, tags, upload date, duration
comments	Comments with author, text, publish date (newest first)
transcript	Subtitles/transcript in JSON (timestamped segments) or SRT format. Prioritizes Portuguese
channel_videos	Last 30 videos from any channel
channel_latest_horizontal	Most recent long-form (non-Short) video from a channel
channel_latest_any	Most recent video (compares long-form and Shorts, returns the newest)
search	Search YouTube by text — up to 50 results with metadata

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Required for	Description
mode	string (select)	always	Operation mode (see table above)
video_url	string	video_details, comments, transcript	Full YouTube video URL
channel_url	string	channel_videos, channel_latest_*	Channel handle (e.g. @ChannelName) or full URL
max_comments	integer	comments	Max comments to return (default: 50, max: 500)
transcript_format	string (select)	transcript	json or srt (default: json)
query	string	search	Search text
max_results	integer	search	Max search results (default: 50, max: 50)

Example inputs

Get video details:

{
    "mode": "video_details",
    "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
}

Get comments:

{
    "mode": "comments",
    "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID",
    "max_comments": 100
}

Get transcript (SRT format):

{
    "mode": "transcript",
    "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID",
    "transcript_format": "srt"
}

Get last 30 videos from a channel:

{
    "mode": "channel_videos",
    "channel_url": "@ChannelName"
}

Search YouTube:

{
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "how to learn Python 2024",
    "max_results": 20
}

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📤 Output

Results are saved to the default Dataset of the Actor run. Each item is a JSON object.

video_details output example:

{
    "title": "How to Learn Python in 2024",
    "description": "Full video description...",
    "like_count": 12500,
    "comment_count": 843,
    "view_count": 250000,
    "tags": ["python", "programming", "tutorial"],
    "upload_date": "15-08-2024",
    "duration": "0:25:30"
}

comments output example (one item per comment):

{
    "author": "@username",
    "comment": "Great video!",
    "published_at": "2 days ago",
    "date": "17-08-2024"
}

transcript output example (JSON format):

{
    "video_id": "VIDEO_ID",
    "language": "pt",
    "entries": [
        { "text": "Welcome to this video", "start": 0.0, "duration": 3.5 },
        { "text": "Today we will learn...", "start": 3.5, "duration": 4.2 }
    ],
    "srt_content": null
}

channel_videos output example (one item per video):

{
    "video_id": "abc123",
    "title": "Video title",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123",
    "view_count": 150000,
    "upload_date": "20240815"
}

search output example (one item per result):

{
    "video_id": "abc123",
    "title": "How to Learn Python",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123",
    "channel": "Channel Name",
    "view_count": 95000,
    "upload_date": "10-08-2024",
    "duration": "0:18:22"
}

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⚙️ How it works

• No YouTube Data API key needed — all data is extracted using a high-performance custom bypass infrastructure.
• Designed for fast and reliable data extraction from YouTube without strict API quotas or limits.

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⚠️ Limitations

• Transcripts: Only available for videos that have subtitles enabled (auto-generated or manual). Portuguese is prioritized; falls back to any available language.
• Like counts: YouTube hides exact like counts for some videos; may return null.
• IP Blocks: Running from cloud IPs may occasionally trigger YouTube rate limits. For high-volume usage, consider enabling Apify residential proxies.
• Comments: Available only for videos with comments enabled.

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📞 Support

If you encounter any issues or have feature requests, please use the Issues tab in the Apify Console.