YouTube Scraper

Scrape any YouTube video, channel, search, or hashtag and get the data other scrapers leave on the table — full transcripts, real dislike counts, the most-replayed heatmap as timestamped points, comments with the creator-hearted signal, Content-ID music and songwriters, sponsor segments, and chapters.

Other YouTube scrapers force you to feed one URL at a time and hand back title-and-views. This one auto-detects every input — paste a video, a channel @handle, a search term, or a #hashtag and it figures out each one — pulls a channel's top videos from a single handle, and ships the deep layer most tools call "impossible." No login, no API key, no setup.

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Quick start

{
  "inputs": ["@MrBeast"],
  "maxVideos": 30,
  "includeComments": true
}

One handle → the channel's 30 highest-viewed videos, each with transcript, heatmap, dislikes, and top comments — sorted and ready in under a minute.

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What you get on every video

Transcript & chapters — transcript (full text), transcriptLangs (every available language), chapters (in-video timestamped sections).

Engagement — viewCount, ryd.likes, ryd.dislikes, ryd.rating — real dislike counts, which most scrapers say isn't possible.

Most-replayed — mostReplayed and heatmap: the exact seconds viewers rewatch, as sortable timestamped points.

Comments — comments[] with text, author, likeCount, replyCount, verified / creator flags, and creatorHearted (which comments the creator personally amplified), plus commentCount and creatorHeartedCount.

Music & sponsors — music (Content-ID song, artist, album, songwriters), sponsorSegments + sponsorDensityPct, dearrow (community title / thumbnail corrections).

Suppression & SEO — isCrawlable (shadowban flag), geo-availability, family-safe state, isMonetized, and the creator's private keywords.

Plus thumbnail, url, author, channelId, lengthSeconds, and publishedText.

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What you control

Knob	Default	What it does
inputs	—	video URLs, channel @handles, search terms, or #hashtags — mixed, auto-detected
maxVideos	30	how many videos per channel / search / hashtag (highest-viewed first)
includeTranscript	true	full multi-language transcripts
includeComments	false	top comments + the creator-hearted signal
mode	auto	leave on auto; or force video · channel-bulk · search · hashtag · viral-dna · niche-map · gap-finder
Proxy	Residential	needed for transcripts on small / low-view videos (see below)

Advanced: enrichTop (how many of the listed videos get the full deep-dive), enrichBy (hottest / latest), commentsLimit, bulkTranscripts (transcribe every listed video), tab (videos / shorts / streams), includeNeighbors, and the chain-mode knobs (momentsPerVideo, crawlDepth, country).

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Use it for

Audience research. Pull a video's comments plus the creator-hearted signal — see what fans care about and which comments the creator amplified.

{ "inputs": ["https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"], "includeComments": true, "commentsLimit": 200 }

Competitor sweep. Feed a channel handle, get its top videos with views, real dislikes, and sponsor density in one run.

{ "inputs": ["@veritasium"], "maxVideos": 50 }

Viral teardown. Cross the most-replayed heatmap with the transcript to read the exact words said at the rewatch peak — across a whole channel.

{ "inputs": ["@mkbhd"], "mode": "viral-dna" }

Content-gap finding. Compare search demand against supply to surface underserved topics.

{ "inputs": ["home workout"], "mode": "gap-finder" }

AI / RAG pipelines. Sweep a niche of videos, export transcripts + comments, feed an LLM for summaries, scripts, or sentiment.

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Output

Lands in the default dataset — export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or JSONL. Two pre-built views ship with it:

• Overview — thumbnail, title, views, dislikes, transcript, comment count
• 💬 Comments — one row per comment (commenter, text, likes, creator-hearted) for clean export

Sample row

A real row from dQw4w9WgXcQ — Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up": 1.78B views, 512K real dislikes, a 100-point rewatch heatmap, and a transcript in five languages.

{
  "type": "video",
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video)",
  "author": "Rick Astley",
  "channelId": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "viewCount": 1780516646,
  "lengthSeconds": 213,
  "isCrawlable": true,
  "isMonetized": false,
  "keywords": ["rick astley", "never gonna give you up", "official video"],
  "transcript": "We're no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I...",
  "transcriptLangs": ["en", "de-DE", "ja", "pt-BR", "es-419"],
  "chapters": [{ "timestamp": "0:00", "title": "Intro" }],
  "mostReplayed": [{ "timeSec": 43, "intensity": 1.0 }, { "timeSec": 86, "intensity": 0.71 }],
  "ryd": { "likes": 19143569, "dislikes": 512180, "rating": 4.9 },
  "music": { "song": "Never Gonna Give You Up", "artist": "Rick Astley", "album": "Whenever You Need Somebody" },
  "sponsorSegments": [],
  "sponsorDensityPct": 0,
  "commentCount": 50,
  "creatorHeartedCount": 1,
  "comments": [
    { "author": "@YouTube", "likeCount": 251000, "replyCount": 961, "creatorHearted": true,
      "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up" }
  ],
  "enriched": true
}

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Speed, proxies & limits

Run shape	Time
1 video, full deep-dive	2–4s
1 channel, 30 videos (top 5 deep-dived)	15–30s
1 channel, 30 videos, transcribe all	~1–2 min
Search / hashtag, 50 results enriched	~1–3 min

Why transcripts need the Residential proxy. YouTube gates small / low-view videos on shared datacenter IPs — blanking the transcript and metadata. A residential IP behaves like a home connection, so nothing gets gated (that's why it's the default). Popular / big-channel videos come through fine on No proxy — switch to save cost.

Why a video might be missing a heatmap. YouTube only generates the most-replayed graph once a video has enough watch data; brand-new or low-view videos won't have one yet, and the row says so.

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Built and maintained by [Yakugusa Yumitori]. Custom data work and "can you scrape X?" challenges → logic.deploy@pm.me.

⚠️ Unofficial. This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC. "YouTube" is a trademark of Google LLC, used here for descriptive purposes only.