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.
YouTube URLs to scrape. Supported: channels (https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium, /@handle/shorts, /@handle/streams, /channel/UC…), playlists (/playlist?list=…), single videos (/watch?v=…, youtu.be/…, /shorts/…) and search result pages (/results?search_query=…).
[ { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium" }]Search terms to look up on YouTube, one per line. Each query returns up to "Max videos" results. Leave empty to scrape only the Start URLs.
[]Maximum number of videos to scrape from each channel, playlist or search query. Single video URLs always count as one.
Order in which channel videos are picked. "Newest" = latest uploads first; "Popular" = most viewed first. For search queries, "Popular" prioritizes popularity and "Newest" uses YouTube's relevance order (YouTube no longer offers an upload-date sort for search — combine with "Uploaded after" to get recent results). Playlists keep their own order.
Only return videos published on or after this date. Use an absolute date (2026-01-31) or a relative one ("30 days", "2 weeks", "1 year"). Leave empty for no date filter.
Include the top comments of each video (YouTube's "Top comments" order). Each comment is billed as a comment-scraped event.
Maximum number of top-level comments to collect for each video. Replies are not included (their count is in replyCount).
Include the full transcript (captions) with timestamps for each video, plus a fullText field ready for AI/RAG. Each transcript is billed as a transcript-scraped event.
Preferred transcript languages as ISO codes, in order of preference (e.g. en, es, pt-BR). Human-made captions are preferred over auto-generated ones. If none of the languages exist, YouTube's machine translation into the first language is used when available.
[ "en"]Proxies used to reach YouTube. Apify Proxy works for most runs; if you see many "blocked" errors in the log, switch to the RESIDENTIAL group.
{ "useApifyProxy": true}How many times a failed or blocked request is retried (with a new proxy session and exponential backoff) before giving up.