YouTube Scraper — Videos, Comments & Transcripts for AI
Pricing
from $2.68 / 1,000 videos
Scrape YouTube channels, playlists, videos and search results: full metadata, top comments and timestamped transcripts in one run. Built for AI, RAG and LLM pipelines. No API key or login needed.
All notable changes to this Actor are documented here. Format: Keep a Changelog ; versions follow the Apify major.minor build versions.
fullText and wordCount.actor-start $0.01, video-scraped $0.002, comment-scraped $0.0005, transcript-scraped $0.005 (source of truth: .actor/pay_per_event.json).uploadedAfter (absolute or relative dates), sortBy (newest / popular), transcript language preference list.STATS key-value record, logged every 30 s) with categorized error counters and budgetReached./browse, /search, /next, /player, /navigation/resolve_url) using the WEB client context and the API key / client version / visitor data read from the live page's ytcfg at start-up (with built-in fallbacks if that page is blocked).tlang) is attempted; because YouTube rate-limits translation aggressively, a failed translation falls back to the original-language track (isTranslated: false).sortBy: popular maps to "Prioritize: Popularity"; sortBy: newest uses relevance order for search (channels still sort newest-first). Documented in the input schema and README.maxVideos instead of maxResults. The repo convention asks for maxResults (default 50); this Actor's specification defines maxVideos (default 20, per source) as the result limit, so maxResults is intentionally not added to avoid two overlapping limits.proxyConfiguration defaults to { useApifyProxy: true } (datacenter) per repo convention; blocked/rate-limited requests rotate sessions, and the README tells users to switch to RESIDENTIAL if blocks persist.uploadedAfter (by its exact publish date), its slot is refilled from the listing's backlog / next page, except for newest-first channel listings where everything after is older anyway.ERROR instead of discarding the whole video.publishedTimeText keeps the original).replyCount).