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YouTube Scraper — Videos, Channels, Shorts & Search (Fast)

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Scrape YouTube videos, Shorts, channels, playlists & searches: views, likes, comments count, dates, tags, subscribers. No browser, $2/1k, fast mode $0.5/1k.

Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 video (full detail)s

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Developer

obie

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Monthly active users

4 days ago

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Categories

Videos

Social media

Agents

YouTube URLs

startUrls

Optional

Any mix of videos, Shorts, channels (@handle or URL), playlists and search-results URLs (max 200). Channels give newest uploads first. Also accepts {url} objects and the field names 'urls', 'videoUrls', 'channelUrls' used by other YouTube actors.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
]

Search queries

searchQueries

Optional

Scrape the video results of each YouTube search.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "pickleball highlights"
]

Search returns

searchType

Optional

Searches return regular videos (default) or Shorts only.

Type:string

Default:videos

Options:

videosshorts

Max videos per channel / playlist / search

maxResults

Optional

Cap per source (0–5,000). For channels this counts regular videos; 0 with a channel = channel profile only (no videos).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:10

Max Shorts per channel

maxResultsShorts

Optional

Also scrape this many of each channel's Shorts (0 = none).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:0

Max live streams per channel

maxResultStreams

Optional

Also scrape this many of each channel's past live streams (0 = none).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:0

Detail level

detail

Optional

Fast mode reads channel/search/playlist pages only: ~4× cheaper and much faster for bulk view-count tracking. Single video URLs always get full detail.

Type:string

Default:full

Options:

fullfast

Published after

publishedAfter

Optional

Only videos published on/after this date: YYYY-MM-DD or a relative age like '7 days', '3 months'. Free (no add-on fee). Also accepts 'oldestPostDate'.

Type:string

Example:

30 days

Published before

publishedBefore

Optional

Only videos published on/before this date (YYYY-MM-DD or '1 year').

Type:string

Example:

2026-01-01

Add channel stats to each video

includeChannelInfo

Optional

Subscribers, total views, video count, country, joined date, links. Fetched once per channel, no extra charge. Default: on in full mode, off in fast mode (keeps bulk view tracking fast).

Type:boolean

Add comments count (full mode)

includeCommentCount

Optional

The comments count as YouTube shows it (e.g. 2.4K → 2400). One extra small request per video, no extra charge.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Add transcript

includeTranscript

Optional

Full detail only: adds the video's captions as plain text (+ language, auto-generated flag). Billed per video only when captions exist.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Transcript languages

transcriptLanguages

Optional

Preferred caption languages in order, e.g. 'en', 'es'. Empty = the video's default.

Type:array

Search: sort by

searchSort

Optional

Order of search results.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedateviewsrating

Search: upload date

searchUploadDate

Optional

Left on 'any', it is set from 'Published after' automatically.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Search: duration

searchDuration

Optional

Video length filter for searches.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyshortmediumlong

Search features

searchFeatures

Optional

Only search results with these features (YouTube's own filters).

Type:string[]

Only new videos (for schedules)

onlyNewVideos

Optional

Remember delivered videos and skip them on later runs with the same input: schedule daily and pay only for new uploads.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Memory name

stateKey

Optional

Optional: share one 'only new' memory across different inputs.

Type:string

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Leave as is: we go direct, then datacenter, then residential only if YouTube pushes back.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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