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from $0.50 / 1,000 video (listing only)s

YouTube Scraper

⚡ 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.

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from $0.50 / 1,000 video (listing only)s

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📥 Paste what you have

targets

Optional

One item per line: video URLs, Shorts URLs, @handles, channel IDs, playlist IDs, video IDs, search result URLs, hashtags, or plain keywords.

Type:array

Example:

[
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwSzpaTHyS8",
  "@NASA",
  "web scraping tutorial"
]

🎯 Choose result package

scenario

Optional

Inputs are auto-detected. Leave Complete selected to collect everything from videos, channels, playlists, search URLs, IDs, handles, hashtags, and keywords.

Type:string

Default:complete

Example:complete

Options:

completequick_metadataresearch_insightscomments_monitoringcreator_leadstranscripts_for_aimedia_audit

📦 Choose size

runSize

Optional

One size controls breadth and depth: items per source, comments per video, replies, related videos, live chat, and lead-enrichment depth.

Type:string

Default:small

Example:small

Options:

testsmallmediumlargeunlimited

🧩 API add-ons

extraData

Optional

Hidden API compatibility field. Console users should choose a result package instead.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

🎚️ Items per source (optional)

maxResults

Optional

Exact override for run size. Leave empty unless you need a precise per-channel, per-playlist, or per-keyword cap.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

🛑 Total items cap (optional)

maxItems

Optional

Exact override for run size. 0 means no global cap. Leave empty to use the selected run size.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:1000000

📝 Transcripts / subtitles

downloadSubtitles

Optional

Fetch public captions/transcripts for each video. AI transcript workflows enable this automatically.

Type:boolean

Default:false

💬 Comments

downloadComments

Optional

Fetch comments for each video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

↪️ Comment replies

includeCommentReplies

Optional

Open reply threads under comments. Useful for analysis, but it adds extra requests.

Type:boolean

Default:false

📧 Emails / websites / socials

extractContacts

Optional

Extract public emails, websites, social links, and contact links from videos and channels.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🧠 Keywords / sentiment / topics

enableContentInsights

Optional

Add lightweight insights: keywords, topics, sentiment, and detected language.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🎬 Include Shorts

includeShorts

Optional

Also collect Shorts when scraping channels. If Shorts per channel is 0, the main Items per source limit will be used.

Type:boolean

Default:false

📣 Community posts

downloadCommunityPosts

Optional

Also collect public community posts when scraping channels.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🧭 Related videos

downloadRecommendations

Optional

Extract recommended/related videos from each public watch page.

Type:boolean

Default:false

⏱️ SponsorBlock segments

downloadSponsorSegments

Optional

Fetch sponsor, intro, outro, self-promo, and other segments from SponsorBlock when available.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🎞️ Media formats

includeDownloadFormats

Optional

Add compact video/audio format metadata: quality, codec, bitrate, best audio, and best video.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔴 Live chat / replay

downloadLiveChat

Optional

Best-effort live chat or replay chat scraping when YouTube exposes a public continuation token.

Type:boolean

Default:false

💬 Override comments per video

maxComments

Optional

Exact override for the selected size. Leave empty so Test/Small/Medium/Large/Maximum controls this automatically.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

🏆 Sort comments

commentsSortBy

Optional

How comments should be sorted before scraping.

Type:string

Default:top

↪️ Override replies per comment

maxRepliesPerComment

Optional

Exact override for the selected size. Leave empty so Test/Small/Medium/Large/Maximum controls this automatically.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10000

🧾 Comments output

commentsOutput

Optional

Flat means one row per comment. Nested means comments stay inside the video row. Both returns both shapes.

Type:string

Default:auto

🆕 Only new comments/videos

dedupeAcrossRuns

Optional

For monitoring: store seen IDs and return only new items in later runs.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔑 Monitoring key

stateKey

Optional

Optional. Use the same key for repeated monitoring runs. If empty, the key is derived from sources and settings.

Type:string

Default:

🌐 Transcript language

subtitlesLanguage

Optional

Caption language to try first. Use any to accept the first available public caption track.

Type:string

Default:en

🔁 Language fallback

subtitlesLanguages

Optional

Fallback language order, for example: en, es, any.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

📄 Transcript format

subtitlesFormat

Optional

Transcript format in the dataset or key-value store.

Type:string

Default:srt

⏱️ Timestamped segments

includeTranscriptSegments

Optional

Return transcript segments with start, end, duration, and text. Useful for RAG, quotes, and clip analysis.

Type:boolean

Default:true

🗄️ Save large transcripts to KVS

saveSubsToKVS

Optional

Keep the dataset compact by writing large transcript payloads to the key-value store and returning a key.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🌍 Translate transcript to

translateSubtitlesTo

Optional

Optional YouTube timedtext translation target language. Empty means no translation.

Type:string

Default:

🤖 Prefer auto-generated captions

preferAutoGeneratedSubtitles

Optional

Choose YouTube ASR captions before manual captions when both are available.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔍 Find words in transcripts

transcriptSearchTerms

Optional

Words or phrases to search inside transcript text. Matching segments are returned with timestamps.

Type:array

🎚️ Transcript match

transcriptSearchMode

Optional

Match any term or require all terms.

Type:string

Default:any

🎯 Only videos with matches

onlyMatchedTranscripts

Optional

Skip videos whose transcript does not contain the requested terms.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔎 Search sort

sortingOrder

Optional

Applies only to search keywords and YouTube /results URLs.

Type:string

🧩 Search result types

searchResultTypes

Optional

Run each keyword as separate searches for the selected types. For Search intelligence, videos + channels + playlists is usually best.

Type:string[]

📅 Upload date

dateFilter

Optional

Restrict search results by upload date.

Type:string

⏳ Duration

lengthFilter

Optional

Restrict search results by video duration.

Type:string

🎥 Single search type

videoType

Optional

Hidden legacy search type. Use Search result types instead.

Type:string

isHD

Optional

Search filter: only HD videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

is4K

Optional

Search filter: only 4K videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

HDR

isHDR

Optional

Search filter: only HDR videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔴 Live

isLive

Optional

Search filter: live videos or streams.

Type:boolean

Default:false

hasSubtitles

Optional

Search filter: videos with subtitles or captions.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🎬 Shorts per channel

maxResultsShorts

Optional

Maximum Shorts to collect from each channel. 0 means skip Shorts unless a preset enables them.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

Default:0

📡 Streams per channel

maxResultStreams

Optional

Maximum streams or live replays to collect from each channel.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

Default:0

📣 Posts per channel

maxCommunityPosts

Optional

Maximum community posts to collect from each channel.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

Default:0

↕️ Channel sort

sortVideosBy

Optional

Sorting for channel tabs: Videos, Shorts, and Streams.

Type:string

Default:NEWEST

🧭 Override related videos per video

maxRecommendations

Optional

Exact override for the selected size. Leave empty so Test/Small/Medium/Large/Maximum controls this automatically.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:1000

🧠 Insight keywords

maxInsightKeywords

Optional

Maximum keyword terms to return in contentInsights.keywords.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:100

Default:20

🌐 Crawl linked websites

crawlExternalLinks

Optional

Visit external websites found in descriptions or about links to discover more emails, socials, and contact links.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔗 Override external pages per item

maxExternalPagesPerChannel

Optional

Exact override for the selected size when creator lead enrichment crawls linked public websites.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:20

✅ Email validation

emailValidation

Optional

Validate extracted emails. Domain DNS checks are slower but more useful for lead lists.

Type:string

Default:none

⏱️ SponsorBlock categories

sponsorBlockCategories

Optional

SponsorBlock categories to request.

Type:string[]

📥 Bulk URL import (optional)

startUrls

Optional

Optional Apify URL editor for CSV, Google Sheets, or bulk imports. For manual runs, use the Targets field above.

Type:array

Default:

[]

🔥 Try YouTube Trending

getTrending

Optional

Best effort. YouTube often hides /feed/trending without login. For reliable trend research, use Search intelligence with sort by views and upload date today.

Type:boolean

Default:false

📅 Published after

publishedAfter

Optional

Exact date filter for watch records, format YYYY-MM-DD. Forces per-video fetch on listings.

Type:string

📅 Published before

publishedBefore

Optional

Exact date filter for watch records, format YYYY-MM-DD. Forces per-video fetch on listings.

Type:string

🌎 Country

Optional

Two-letter country code such as us, gb, de, or jp. Affects YouTube results and residential proxy country.

Type:string

Default:us

🗣️ Language

Optional

Two-letter interface language such as en, es, de, ja, or ru.

Type:string

Default:en

⚡ Speed

concurrency

Optional

How many HTTP requests run in parallel. Higher is faster, but may produce more proxy or YouTube retries.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:32

Default:5

🔴 Override live chat messages

maxLiveChatMessages

Optional

Exact override for the selected size. Leave empty so Test/Small/Medium/Large/Maximum controls this automatically.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

🧩 Raw streamingData

includeStreamingData

Optional

Attach raw playerResponse.streamingData. Usually not needed because it can make dataset rows much larger.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔗 Media format URLs

includeFormatUrls

Optional

Include direct format URLs when YouTube exposes them. Some formats still require signature deciphering.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔁 Return comment continuation token

includeContinuationTokens

Optional

Return commentsNextContinuation so a client can continue comment paging later.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🔁 Start from comment token

commentsContinuationToken

Optional

Advanced: continue comments from a token returned by a previous run.

Type:string

Default:

🗄️ State store

stateStoreName

Optional

Named key-value store used for dedupe state across runs.

Type:string

Default:youtube-scraper-state

🔎 Legacy search keywords

searchQueries

Optional

Hidden compatibility field for API callers. In Console, use Targets or search keywords.

Type:array

Default:

[]

📺 Legacy channel handles

youtubeHandles

Optional

Hidden compatibility field for API callers. In Console, use Targets or search keywords.

Type:array

Default:

[]

🎥 Legacy video IDs

videoIds

Optional

Hidden compatibility field for API callers. In Console, use Targets or search keywords.

Type:array

Default:

[]

📺 Legacy channel IDs

channelIds

Optional

Hidden compatibility field for API callers. In Console, use Targets or search keywords.

Type:array

Default:

[]

📚 Legacy playlist IDs

playlistIds

Optional

Hidden compatibility field for API callers. In Console, use Targets or search keywords.

Type:array

Default:

[]

⚙️ Legacy scrape mode

scrapeMode

Optional

Hidden compatibility field for API callers. Console users should choose a result package.

Type:string

Default:metadata

🧾 Include run metadata

includeRunMetadata

Optional

Hidden default: attach scrapedAt, runId, sourceType, sourceUrl, and source indexes.

Type:boolean

Default:true

🧰 Include raw legacy fields

includeRawFields

Optional

Hidden compatibility option for API users. Leave disabled for a clean Output tab without duplicate aliases.

Type:boolean

Default:false

🧯 Push diagnostic errors

pushErrorItems

Optional

Hidden default: failed direct inputs create diagnostic dataset rows.

Type:boolean

Default:true

🗄️ Stored seen IDs

maxStateItems

Optional

Hidden default: maximum seen IDs retained for monitoring dedupe state.

Type:integer

Minimum:1000

Maximum:1000000

Default:200000

is3D

Optional

Hidden rare YouTube search filter: stereoscopic 3D videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

360

is360

Optional

Hidden rare YouTube search filter: 360-degree videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

VR180

isVR180

Optional

Hidden rare YouTube search filter: VR180 videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Creative Commons

hasCC

Optional

Hidden rare YouTube search filter: Creative Commons videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Location tag

hasLocation

Optional

Hidden rare YouTube search filter: videos with a public location tag.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Purchased

isBought

Optional

Hidden compatibility search filter for purchased videos.

Type:boolean

Default:false

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