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YouTube Music Albums Scraper

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Search current YouTube Music album results and retrieve rich album and optional track metadata through YouTube Music's first-party youtubei endpoints.

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from $2.99 / 1,000 albums

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recordType

Optional

Normal dataset record discriminator.

Type:string | null

Example:

youtube_music_album

searchQuery

Optional

Search query that produced this album candidate, when the source was a search.

Type:string | null

Example:

Adele album

browseId

Optional

YouTube playlist or Music album browse identifier.

Type:string | null

Example:

PLxgEqpZ1Pdg9qG-7bLycTPgINtzneUk_N

title

Optional

Album or playlist title visible on the public page.

Type:string | null

Example:

Adele - 30

albumType

Optional

Conservative classification derived from public album or playlist metadata.

Type:string | null

Example:

Playlist

Options:

AlbumEPSinglePlaylist

contentType

Optional

Source-provided content type when the public search result exposes it.

Type:string | null

Example:

MUSIC_ALBUM

isOfficialAlbum

Optional

Whether the public data contains explicit official-album evidence.

Type:boolean | null

Example:

false

sourceKind

Optional

Source classification for the record.

Type:string | null

Example:

user_playlist

Options:

official_albumuser_playlist

classificationEvidence

Optional

Public renderer or identifier evidence used for the source classification.

Type:string | null

Example:

direct_playlist_url

artist

Optional

Artist or playlist owner text visible on the source page.

Type:string | null

Example:

Adele

creatorName

Optional

Public playlist owner or channel name.

Type:string | null

Example:

AdeleVEVO

creatorId

Optional

Public YouTube channel identifier for the creator, when exposed.

Type:string | null

Example:

UCsRm2K7aY0J5w4b7j8o3g1Q

creatorUrl

Optional

Public YouTube channel URL for the creator.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRm2K7aY0J5w4b7j8o3g1Q

year

Optional

Release year copied from explicit official release metadata; not inferred from a title.

Type:string | null

Example:

2021

releaseYear

Optional

Explicit official release year exposed by the public Music album page.

Type:string | null

Example:

2021

releaseDate

Optional

Explicit official release date text exposed by the public Music album page.

Type:string | null

Example:

November 19, 2021

titleYearHint

Optional

Year-looking text found in the title; retained as a hint and never promoted to releaseYear.

Type:string | null

Example:

2021

releaseMetadataSource

Optional

Provenance label for release metadata or the absence of verified official metadata.

Type:string | null

Example:

unverified_playlist_metadata

albumUrl

Optional

Canonical public YouTube playlist or Music album URL.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxgEqpZ1Pdg9qG-7bLycTPgINtzneUk_N

musicUrl

Optional

Public YouTube Music URL for the playlist or album.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxgEqpZ1Pdg9qG-7bLycTPgINtzneUk_N

description

Optional

Description text visible on the public album or playlist page.

Type:string | null

Example:

The complete album playlist.

descriptionLength

Optional

Character count of the normalized description.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

releaseMetadata

Optional

Normalized public metadata and statistics text retained for reconciliation.

Type:string | null

Example:

12 videos · 1,234 views

totalTrackCount

Optional

Track count reported by the public page, when present.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

totalTrackCountText

Optional

Original normalized public track-count text.

Type:string | null

Example:

12 videos

totalViewCount

Optional

View count reported by the public page, when present.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

1234

totalViewCountText

Optional

Original normalized public view-count text.

Type:string | null

Example:

1,234 views

updatedText

Optional

Public last-updated text, when exposed.

Type:string | null

Example:

Last updated on Jan 10, 2025

thumbnailUrl

Optional

Largest normalized public album thumbnail URL exposed by the page.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example/hqdefault.jpg

thumbnailCount

Optional

Number of distinct public album thumbnails retained.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

thumbnails

Optional

Distinct public album thumbnails with source dimensions when exposed.

Type:object[] | null

Example:

[
  {
    "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example/hqdefault.jpg",
    "width": 480,
    "height": 360
  }
]

trackCount

Optional

Number of visible track records retained after maxTracks is applied.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

rawTrackCount

Optional

Number of distinct track renderers seen on the initial public page before the maxTracks cap.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

tracks

Optional

Bounded visible track metadata from the public playlist page.

Type:object[] | null

initialItemsExposed

Optional

Number of track renderer instances exposed on the initial page.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

continuationDetected

Optional

Whether the public page exposed continuation metadata.

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

continuationCount

Optional

Bounded count of continuation markers observed; continuation requests are not replayed.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Example:

source

Optional

Input source type that produced this record.

Type:string | null

Example:

startUrl

Options:

searchstartUrl

sourceUrl

Optional

Public search or playlist URL associated with this record.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxgEqpZ1Pdg9qG-7bLycTPgINtzneUk_N

searchUrl

Optional

Public search URL used to find this record, for search-sourced rows only.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Adele+album&hl=en&gl=US

rank

Optional

Rank of the candidate within its source page.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:1

Example:

page

Optional

Public page number represented by this record. This Actor currently uses the initial page only.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:1

Example:

sourceRenderer

Optional

Public renderer family used for the album candidate.

Type:string | null

Example:

public-playlist-renderer

sourceTransport

Optional

Public HTML transport used for the source page.

Type:string | null

Example:

public-rendered-html-via-apify-proxy

Options:

public-rendered-html-directpublic-rendered-html-via-apify-proxy

extractionMethod

Optional

Bounded extraction method used for public embedded page data.

Type:string | null

Example:

youtube-public-page-embedded-initial-data

Options:

youtube-public-page-embedded-initial-data

metadataSource

Optional

Public page source for the enriched album metadata.

Type:string | null

Example:

youtube-public-playlist-page

Options:

youtube-public-playlist-page

metadataEnriched

Optional

Whether the public detail page was fetched and merged into the record.

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

albumPageAvailable

Optional

Whether a public album or playlist detail page was successfully parsed.

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

requestedMaxItems

Optional

Global maxItems value used for the run.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:1

Maximum:50

Example:

requestedMaxSearchItems

Optional

Per-search maxSearchItems value used for the run.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:1

Maximum:50

Example:

requestedMaxStartItems

Optional

Direct-URL maxStartItems value used for the run.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:1

Maximum:50

Example:

requestedMaxPages

Optional

Configured page bound recorded for the run; continuation pages are not requested.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:1

Maximum:3

Example:

requestedMaxTracks

Optional

Per-record maxTracks value used for the run.

Type:integer | null

Minimum:0

Maximum:200

Example:

includeTracks

Optional

Whether visible track rows were retained.

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

languageCode

Optional

Lowercase language context used for public page URLs and headers.

Type:string | null

Example:

countryCode

Optional

Uppercase two-letter country context used for public page URLs and headers.

Type:string | null

Example:

scrapedAt

Optional

UTC timestamp when the dataset row was emitted.

Type:string | null

Example:

2026-09-08T12:00:00.000Z

url

Optional

Public URL associated with a diagnostic record.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Adele+album&hl=en&gl=US

error

Optional

Sanitized diagnostic message explaining a blocked, empty, or failed public page operation.

Type:string | null

Example:

Public YouTube page reported an access block.

errorCode

Optional

Stable diagnostic category. Diagnostic rows contain only url, error, errorCode, and scrapedAt.

Type:string | null

Example:

ALBUM_ACCESS_BLOCKED

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