# YouTube Gaming Trends Scraper (`w3crawler/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper`) Actor

Collect current videos from the YouTube Gaming page, preserving YouTube's page sections and ordering. Includes renderer-sourced video, channel, view, duration and live metadata.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/w3crawler/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [w3crawler](https://apify.com/w3crawler) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 gaming videos

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## YouTube Gaming Trends Scraper

Collect ranked video cards from the public YouTube Gaming page. The actor reads the public HTML response and embedded initial data only; it does not use private YouTube client APIs, stealth, CAPTCHA solving, or browser fingerprint spoofing.

### Input

| Field | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `maxItems` | `50` | Maximum unique video cards, from 1 to 200. |
| `countryCode` | `US` | Two-letter region for the public Gaming page. |
| `locale` | `en-US` | Page locale in language-country form. |
| `includeDiagnostics` | `true` | Emit exact four-field diagnostics for blocked or unusable pages. |
| `enableProxyFallback` | `true` | Try standard account-authorized Apify Proxy after direct access fails. |
| `maxRetries` | `2` | Bounded retries per route, from 0 to 3. |
| `requestDelayMs` | `250` | Bounded pacing setting. |
| `requestTimeoutSecs` | `60` | Public-page timeout, from 15 to 180 seconds. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | — | Standard Apify Proxy or credential-free HTTP/SOCKS proxy configuration. |

### Output

Each video record includes rank and section, canonical video URL/ID, title and description, description length, thumbnail URL and all public thumbnail variants, channel identity and URL, displayed and parsed views, publication text, duration and parsed seconds, live state, badges, public rich metadata, game/category labels when YouTube supplies them, region/locale, source-page URL, extraction method, metadata source, and timestamp. Optional values are omitted when the public page does not expose them.

Diagnostics contain exactly `url`, `error`, `errorCode`, and `scrapedAt`. The `OUTPUT` key-value record summarizes counts, failures/blocks, proxy state, locale, and duration.

### Verification

```text
npm test
npx apify validate-schema .actor/input_schema.json
npx apify run --purge --input-file qa-inputs/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper/local-validation.json
npm run validate-dataset
npx apify actors call <ACTOR_ID> --build latest --input-file qa-inputs/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper/cloud-validation.json --timeout 300 --json
```

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/w3crawler/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum unique public Gaming page videos to save.

## `countryCode` (type: `string`):

Two-letter region used by the public Gaming page, such as US, GB, or IN.

## `locale` (type: `string`):

Public page locale in language-country form, such as en-US or hi-IN.

## `includeDiagnostics` (type: `boolean`):

Emit exact four-field diagnostics when the public Gaming page is blocked or lacks usable embedded data.

## `enableProxyFallback` (type: `boolean`):

Try the configured account-authorized Apify Proxy route after direct access fails.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Bounded retry attempts for each public transport route.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Pacing delay reserved for future page expansion; bounded to protect the public route.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Timeout for one public Gaming page request.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional standard Apify Proxy or credential-free HTTP/SOCKS proxy configuration. Proxy state is summarized in OUTPUT only.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "countryCode": "US",
  "locale": "en-US",
  "includeDiagnostics": true,
  "enableProxyFallback": true,
  "maxRetries": 2,
  "requestDelayMs": 250,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `keyValueStore` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 50,
    "countryCode": "US",
    "locale": "en-US",
    "includeDiagnostics": true,
    "enableProxyFallback": true,
    "maxRetries": 2,
    "requestDelayMs": 250,
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("w3crawler/youtube-gaming-trends-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "maxItems": 50,
    "countryCode": "US",
    "locale": "en-US",
    "includeDiagnostics": True,
    "enableProxyFallback": True,
    "maxRetries": 2,
    "requestDelayMs": 250,
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("w3crawler/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "countryCode": "US",
  "locale": "en-US",
  "includeDiagnostics": true,
  "enableProxyFallback": true,
  "maxRetries": 2,
  "requestDelayMs": 250,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call w3crawler/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,w3crawler/youtube-gaming-trends-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/wPguafrxbegPaPopB/builds/HbO8PgO0Sn0d2cqGk/openapi.json