# YouTube Scraper (`vortex_data/youtube-scraper`) Actor ⚡ Every YouTube field in one Actor — videos, channels, playlists, search, Shorts, comments, subtitles, hashtags — at 200+ videos/sec. Chrome TLS fingerprint, rotating residential IPs, full channel metadata on every row. Zero blocks, zero CAPTCHAs. - **URL**: https://apify.com/vortex\_data/youtube-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [VortexData](https://apify.com/vortex_data) (community) - **Categories:** Videos, Developer tools, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.50 / 1,000 video (listing only)s This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 📺 YouTube Scraper — fast, complete, residential-grade > Scrape **videos, channels, playlists, search results, Shorts, live streams** and **comments** from YouTube — at residential-proxy speed with a Chrome TLS fingerprint. ### ✨ Why this scraper - **Complete data.** Returns the full set: video metadata, channel `/about` metadata duplicated on every channel item, parsed `descriptionLinks`, `hashtags`, `commentsCount`, `isMonetized`, full `thumbnails` array, captions metadata, `streamingData` (opt-in), plus inline comments and subtitles. - **Fast.** ~85 videos/s from a channel, ~210 videos/s from a playlist, 50 watch records in parallel without throttling — benchmarked live. - **Anti-detection by default.** `curl_cffi` with `impersonate="chrome"` (real Chrome TLS/JA3 fingerprint) and a **fresh Apify Residential session ID per HTTP request** — every outbound call uses a different residential IP. - **PoToken-proof subtitles.** Automatically falls back to YouTube's iOS player API when the WEB caption baseUrl is empty (post-PoToken rollout), so subtitles actually download. - **Channel `/about` enrichment.** Every channel item carries `channelDescription`, `channelDescriptionLinks`, `channelJoinedDate`, `channelLocation`, `channelTotalVideos`, `channelTotalViews`, `numberOfSubscribers`, `inputChannelUrl`. - **Comments inline.** Walked through `/youtubei/v1/next` continuation — no separate actor needed. - **Parallel everywhere.** Multiple source URLs scrape concurrently. `/about` and tab listings on a channel fetch in parallel. ### 🚀 Quick start 1. Paste a YouTube link (video, channel, playlist, search, Shorts) into **Start URLs** — *or* type keywords into **Search Queries** — *or* drop channel handles (`@MrBeast`) into **YouTube Handles**. 2. Click **Start**. 3. Download results from the **Dataset** tab in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML. The default settings already have a sample video URL pre-filled, so a one-click run returns one full video record immediately. ### 🎯 What you can scrape | Source URL | What you get | |---|---| | `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...` | Single video: title, description, **likes, views, commentsCount**, channel info, **subscribers**, hashtags, `descriptionLinks`, full thumbnails array, dates, captions metadata, isLive / isMonetized / isFamilySafe, optional `streamingData` | | `https://www.youtube.com/shorts/...` | Same shape as a normal video | | `https://www.youtube.com/@handle` or `/c/Name` or `/channel/UC...` | Channel **/about** metadata + every requested tab (videos / shorts / streams), each item enriched with channel-level fields | | `https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...` | Playlist videos with `channelName`, `channelUrl`, `viewCount`, relative date, thumbnail | | `https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=...` | Search results with full listing-level fields | | `https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/...` | Hashtag feed | | **Search Queries input** | Same as above, plus you can pick sort order / date / 4K / HD / CC / Live / etc. | ### ⚙️ Input examples #### Scrape one video, including subtitles & comments ```json { "startUrls": [ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" ], "downloadSubtitles": true, "subtitlesLanguage": "en", "subtitlesFormat": "srt", "downloadComments": true, "maxComments": 200 } ```` #### Scrape an entire channel (videos + shorts + streams) ```json { "youtubeHandles": ["@MrBeast"], "maxResults": 200, "maxResultsShorts": 50, "maxResultStreams": 10, "sortVideosBy": "POPULAR" } ``` #### Search with filters (HD videos uploaded this week, sorted by views) ```json { "searchQueries": ["climate change"], "maxResults": 100, "sortingOrder": "views", "dateFilter": "week", "isHD": true } ``` #### Multi-source batch, with a global cap ```json { "startUrls": [ "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...", "https://www.youtube.com/@apify/videos", "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=apify" ], "maxResults": 50, "maxItems": 500, "concurrency": 8 } ``` ### 📤 Output example ```json { "type": "video", "id": "wwSzpaTHyS8", "title": "Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwSzpaTHyS8", "description": "Go to https://brilliant.org/nutshell/ to dive deeper...", "descriptionLinks": [ { "text": "https://brilliant.org/nutshell/", "url": "https://brilliant.org/nutshell/" } ], "hashtags": ["#science"], "keywords": ["physics", "time"], "category": "Education", "views": 14613126, "likes": 461357, "commentsCount": 18432, "commentsTurnedOff": false, "date": "2024-01-30", "publishDate": "Jan 30, 2024", "uploadDate": "Jan 30, 2024", "duration": "00:12:35", "durationSeconds": 755, "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wwSzpaTHyS8/maxresdefault.jpg", "thumbnails": [ { "url": "...hqdefault.jpg", "width": 168, "height": 94 }, { "url": "...maxresdefault.jpg", "width": 1920, "height": 1080 } ], "embedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/wwSzpaTHyS8", "channel": { "id": "UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q", "name": "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt" }, "numberOfSubscribers": 22500000, "isLive": false, "isPrivate": false, "isUnlisted": false, "isFamilySafe": true, "isMonetized": true, "playabilityStatus": "OK", "availableCountries": ["US", "GB", "DE", "..."], "captions": { "captionTracks": [ { "base_url": "...", "language_code": "en", "kind": null } ] }, "subtitles": [ { "type": "manual", "language": "en", "format": "srt", "content": "1\n00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:09,520\nDo your past..." } ], "comments": [ { "id": "Ug...", "author": "@kelving420", "text": "The fact they can use all of these trademarked characters...", "likeCount": 16, "replyCount": 16, "publishedTime": "3 weeks ago" } ], "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwSzpaTHyS8", "status": "OK" } ``` When scraping a **channel**, each item additionally carries: ```json "channelDescription": "...", "channelDescriptionLinks": [{"text": "...", "url": "https://..."}], "channelJoinedDate": "Feb 1, 2015", "channelLocation": "United Kingdom", "channelTotalVideos": 418, "channelTotalViews": "2,473,486,020", "inputChannelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstleyYT/about" ``` ### ⚡ Performance (live benchmark) | Workload | Items | Time | Rate | |---|---|---|---| | Channel videos (with continuation) | 100 | 1.17s | **85 vid/s** | | Playlist (with continuation) | 100 | 0.47s | **210 vid/s** | | Search results (with continuation) | 100 | 1.49s | 41 vid/s | | 3 listings in parallel | 180 | 1.07s | 167 vid/s | | 8 channels × 200 videos in parallel | 1294 | 2.0s | **656 vid/s** | | 500 comments via `/next` continuation | 500 | 3.3s | 150 com/s | | Single full `/watch` record | 1 | 0.81s | — | ### 🧰 Advanced options - **`includeStreamingData`** — attach raw `playerResponse.streamingData` (mp4 formats, adaptive formats, URLs). Off by default because most format URLs are signature-protected and the payload is large. - **`saveSubsToKVS`** — write subtitles to the key-value store, keep the dataset record slim. - **`concurrency`** — number of in-flight HTTP requests. Default 5; the actor is happy at 16+. - **`maxItems`** — global cross-source cap (e.g. set 1000 to stop the run after 1000 items regardless of how many start URLs). - **`sortVideosBy`** — channel-tab sort: `NEWEST`, `POPULAR`, `OLDEST`. ### 🌍 Country / language (`gl` / `hl`) YouTube respects the `gl=US` / `hl=en` URL parameters for results localization. The actor threads them through to: - Every HTML fetch (appended as query parameters) - The `Accept-Language` header - The Innertube `context.client.gl` / `hl` for `/browse`, `/search`, `/next`, `/player` continuation calls - **The residential proxy's country routing** — picking `gl=de` means traffic exits from a German residential IP and you get German-localized results. ### ❓ FAQ **Why is `getTrending` returning nothing?** YouTube removed the public Trending feed for unauthenticated visitors in 2024 — `/feed/trending` now serves a "Try searching to get started" placeholder. As a workaround, use `searchQueries` with `"sortingOrder": "views"` and `"dateFilter": "today"`. **Why is `streamingData` empty in my output?** It's off by default — flip `includeStreamingData: true`. Note that for most popular videos the playback URLs inside are signature-ciphered and need a JS decipher step (see `signatureCipher` vs `url` keys). **Why are some subtitle tracks missing for a video?** Either the video has no captions, or YouTube returned an empty body for the WEB caption URL (post-PoToken rollout). The actor auto-falls back to the iOS-client player, which fixes the vast majority of cases. **Why `location: null`?** The video's uploader didn't tag a location. The field exists on YT's microformat but is rarely populated. **Can I scrape dislikes?** No — YouTube made dislike counts non-public in 2021. **What's `isMonetized` based on?** The actor checks `playerResponse.adPlacements` and `playerResponse.playerAds`. If either is non-empty, the video runs ads and is monetized. ### 📞 Support Open an issue on the **Issues** tab with a sample input that reproduces the problem. We aim to respond same-day for blockers. # Actor input Schema ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Any YouTube URL: video, channel, playlist, search results, Shorts, hashtag. Paste many — they are scraped in parallel. ## `youtubeHandles` (type: `array`): Channel handles like @MrBeast or @apify. Automatically resolved to channel URLs. ## `searchQueries` (type: `array`): Words to type into the YouTube search bar. Filters from the section below are applied to every query. ## `getTrending` (type: `boolean`): ⚠️ YouTube no longer exposes /feed/trending to unauthenticated visitors in most regions. As a workaround, search with sort=views and date=today. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Cap on the number of regular videos to fetch per channel / search / playlist URL. For a single video URL this is ignored. ## `maxResultsShorts` (type: `integer`): Only applies when scraping a channel URL — sets the cap on the /shorts tab. ## `maxResultStreams` (type: `integer`): Only applies when scraping a channel URL — sets the cap on the /streams tab. ## `includeShorts` (type: `boolean`): Shortcut. When ON and `Maximum Shorts per channel` is 0, we copy the regular-videos cap onto Shorts. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Hard cross-source ceiling on the dataset size. 0 means unlimited. ## `sortVideosBy` (type: `string`): Sort buttons on a channel's Videos / Shorts / Streams tabs. ## `sortingOrder` (type: `string`): Only applies when scraping search keywords / a /results URL. ## `dateFilter` (type: `string`): Restrict search results to videos uploaded within this window. ## `videoType` (type: `string`): Limit results to regular videos or full-length movies. ## `lengthFilter` (type: `string`): Limit results to videos shorter or longer than the given bucket. ## `isHD` (type: `boolean`): Match only videos available in HD (720p or higher). ## `is4K` (type: `boolean`): Match only videos available in 4K (2160p). ## `isHDR` (type: `boolean`): Match only videos available in HDR. ## `is3D` (type: `boolean`): Match only stereoscopic 3D videos. ## `is360` (type: `boolean`): Match only 360° videos. ## `isVR180` (type: `boolean`): Match only VR180 videos. ## `isLive` (type: `boolean`): Match only live streams. ## `hasSubtitles` (type: `boolean`): Match only videos that have subtitles / CC available. ## `hasCC` (type: `boolean`): Match only videos uploaded under a Creative Commons licence. ## `hasLocation` (type: `boolean`): Match only videos that have a geographic location tagged. ## `isBought` (type: `boolean`): Match only videos that have been purchased by the YouTube user. ## `downloadSubtitles` (type: `boolean`): Fetch subtitles for every scraped video. ⚠️ This triggers a per-video /watch fetch even on search/channel sources. ## `subtitlesLanguage` (type: `string`): Two-letter language code (en, ru, de, …). Use `any` to grab whatever's available. ## `preferAutoGeneratedSubtitles` (type: `boolean`): Pick the ASR (auto-generated) track over manually uploaded subtitles when both exist. ## `subtitlesFormat` (type: `string`): How subtitles should be encoded in the dataset. ## `saveSubsToKVS` (type: `boolean`): Instead of embedding the SRT in the dataset, write it to the run's key-value store and keep a `keyValueStoreKey` reference. Useful for very long videos. ## `downloadComments` (type: `boolean`): Walk the /youtubei/v1/next continuation chain. Triggers a /watch fetch even on listing-only sources. ## `maxComments` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of comments to scrape per video. Only used when `Scrape comments` is enabled. ## `gl` (type: `string`): Two-letter country code (us, gb, de, ru, …). Affects which results YouTube returns AND which residential-proxy country we route through. ## `hl` (type: `string`): Two-letter language code (en, ru, de, …). Drives YouTube interface texts and the `Accept-Language` header. ## `includeStreamingData` (type: `boolean`): Attach the raw `playerResponse.streamingData` block. ⚠️ Off by default because the payload can be 100s of KB per video, and most format URLs are signature-protected (you still need to run a JS decipher). ## `concurrency` (type: `integer`): How many HTTP requests run in parallel. The actor scales well up to ~16; defaults to 5 for proxy-friendliness. ## Actor input object example ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" } ], "youtubeHandles": [], "searchQueries": [], "getTrending": false, "maxResults": 10, "maxResultsShorts": 0, "maxResultStreams": 0, "includeShorts": false, "maxItems": 0, "sortVideosBy": "NEWEST", "isHD": false, "is4K": false, "isHDR": false, "is3D": false, "is360": false, "isVR180": false, "isLive": false, "hasSubtitles": false, "hasCC": false, "hasLocation": false, "isBought": false, "downloadSubtitles": false, "subtitlesLanguage": "en", "preferAutoGeneratedSubtitles": false, "subtitlesFormat": "srt", "saveSubsToKVS": false, "downloadComments": false, "maxComments": 100, "gl": "us", "hl": "en", "includeStreamingData": false, "concurrency": 5 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `datasetItems` (type: `string`): All scraped items. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" } ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("vortex_data/youtube-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" }] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("vortex_data/youtube-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" } ] }' | apify call vortex_data/youtube-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=vortex_data/youtube-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "YouTube Scraper", "description": "⚡ Every YouTube field in one Actor — videos, channels, playlists, search, Shorts, comments, subtitles, hashtags — at 200+ videos/sec. Chrome TLS fingerprint, rotating residential IPs, full channel metadata on every row. Zero blocks, zero CAPTCHAs.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "l5DaReHew5dctlNTy" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/vortex_data~youtube-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-vortex_data-youtube-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/vortex_data~youtube-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-vortex_data-youtube-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/vortex_data~youtube-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-vortex_data-youtube-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Any YouTube URL: video, channel, playlist, search results, Shorts, hashtag. Paste many — they are scraped in parallel.", "default": [ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" } ], "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "youtubeHandles": { "title": "YouTube handles", "type": "array", "description": "Channel handles like @MrBeast or @apify. Automatically resolved to channel URLs.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "searchQueries": { "title": "Search queries", "type": "array", "description": "Words to type into the YouTube search bar. Filters from the section below are applied to every query.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "getTrending": { "title": "Get Trending feed", "type": "boolean", "description": "⚠️ YouTube no longer exposes /feed/trending to unauthenticated visitors in most regions. As a workaround, search with sort=views and date=today.", "default": false }, "maxResults": { "title": "Maximum videos per source", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap on the number of regular videos to fetch per channel / search / playlist URL. For a single video URL this is ignored.", "default": 10 }, "maxResultsShorts": { "title": "Maximum Shorts per channel", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Only applies when scraping a channel URL — sets the cap on the /shorts tab.", "default": 0 }, "maxResultStreams": { "title": "Maximum streams per channel", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Only applies when scraping a channel URL — sets the cap on the /streams tab.", "default": 0 }, "includeShorts": { "title": "Include Shorts on a channel scrape", "type": "boolean", "description": "Shortcut. When ON and `Maximum Shorts per channel` is 0, we copy the regular-videos cap onto Shorts.", "default": false }, "maxItems": { "title": "Maximum total items (global cap)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 1000000, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard cross-source ceiling on the dataset size. 0 means unlimited.", "default": 0 }, "sortVideosBy": { "title": "Channel tab sort", "enum": [ "NEWEST", "POPULAR", "OLDEST" ], "type": "string", "description": "Sort buttons on a channel's Videos / Shorts / Streams tabs.", "default": "NEWEST" }, "sortingOrder": { "title": "Sort search results by", "enum": [ "relevance", "rating", "date", "views" ], "type": "string", "description": "Only applies when scraping search keywords / a /results URL." }, "dateFilter": { "title": "Upload date", "enum": [ "hour", "today", "week", "month", "year" ], "type": "string", "description": "Restrict search results to videos uploaded within this window." }, "videoType": { "title": "Type", "enum": [ "video", "movie" ], "type": "string", "description": "Limit results to regular videos or full-length movies." }, "lengthFilter": { "title": "Duration", "enum": [ "under4", "between420", "plus20" ], "type": "string", "description": "Limit results to videos shorter or longer than the given bucket." }, "isHD": { "title": "Only HD", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only videos available in HD (720p or higher).", "default": false }, "is4K": { "title": "Only 4K", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only videos available in 4K (2160p).", "default": false }, "isHDR": { "title": "Only HDR", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only videos available in HDR.", "default": false }, "is3D": { "title": "Only 3D", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only stereoscopic 3D videos.", "default": false }, "is360": { "title": "Only 360°", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only 360° videos.", "default": false }, "isVR180": { "title": "Only VR180", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only VR180 videos.", "default": false }, "isLive": { "title": "Only Live", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only live streams.", "default": false }, "hasSubtitles": { "title": "Only with subtitles", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only videos that have subtitles / CC available.", "default": false }, "hasCC": { "title": "Only Creative Commons", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only videos uploaded under a Creative Commons licence.", "default": false }, "hasLocation": { "title": "Only with location tag", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only videos that have a geographic location tagged.", "default": false }, "isBought": { "title": "Only purchased", "type": "boolean", "description": "Match only videos that have been purchased by the YouTube user.", "default": false }, "downloadSubtitles": { "title": "Download subtitles", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch subtitles for every scraped video. ⚠️ This triggers a per-video /watch fetch even on search/channel sources.", "default": false }, "subtitlesLanguage": { "title": "Preferred subtitles language", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter language code (en, ru, de, …). Use `any` to grab whatever's available.", "default": "en" }, "preferAutoGeneratedSubtitles": { "title": "Prefer auto-generated tracks", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pick the ASR (auto-generated) track over manually uploaded subtitles when both exist.", "default": false }, "subtitlesFormat": { "title": "Output format", "enum": [ "srt", "vtt", "xml", "plaintext" ], "type": "string", "description": "How subtitles should be encoded in the dataset.", "default": "srt" }, "saveSubsToKVS": { "title": "Save subtitles to key-value store", "type": "boolean", "description": "Instead of embedding the SRT in the dataset, write it to the run's key-value store and keep a `keyValueStoreKey` reference. Useful for very long videos.", "default": false }, "downloadComments": { "title": "Scrape comments", "type": "boolean", "description": "Walk the /youtubei/v1/next continuation chain. Triggers a /watch fetch even on listing-only sources.", "default": false }, "maxComments": { "title": "Comments per video", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of comments to scrape per video. Only used when `Scrape comments` is enabled.", "default": 100 }, "gl": { "title": "Country", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter country code (us, gb, de, ru, …). Affects which results YouTube returns AND which residential-proxy country we route through.", "default": "us" }, "hl": { "title": "Interface language", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter language code (en, ru, de, …). Drives YouTube interface texts and the `Accept-Language` header.", "default": "en" }, "includeStreamingData": { "title": "Include streamingData (mp4 / adaptive formats)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Attach the raw `playerResponse.streamingData` block. ⚠️ Off by default because the payload can be 100s of KB per video, and most format URLs are signature-protected (you still need to run a JS decipher).", "default": false }, "concurrency": { "title": "Concurrent requests", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 32, "type": "integer", "description": "How many HTTP requests run in parallel. The actor scales well up to ~16; defaults to 5 for proxy-friendliness.", "default": 5 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```