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YouTube Scraper — Videos, Channels, Shorts & Search

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Scrape YouTube search results (with filters), channel info, a channel's videos, Shorts and live streams, playlists and full video details (likes, tags, chapters, exact date). No API key. From $1.50 per 1,000 results.

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from $0.90 / 1,000 results

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Developer

Zee Lex

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Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

3 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Videos

Social media

Lead generation

Search queries

searchQueries

Optional

Optional. Search terms, one per line, exactly as you would type them into YouTube's search box. Each query is scraped up to "Max results per query".

Type:array

Search for

searchType

Optional

What search queries return: videos (including Shorts), channels or playlists.

Type:string

Default:video

Options:

videochannelplaylist

Upload date

uploadDate

Optional

YouTube's upload date filter for search queries.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyhourtodayweekmonthyear

Duration

duration

Optional

YouTube length filter for search queries: short = under 3 minutes, medium = 3–20 minutes, long = over 20 minutes.

Type:string

Default:any

Options:

anyshortmediumlong

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

Order of search results. YouTube's search now only supports Relevance and Popularity; to get recent videos, use the Upload date filter (e.g. Last hour, Today, This week).

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevanceviews

Features

features

Optional

Optional search filters: live = live now, 4k, hd, subtitles = has subtitles/CC, cc = Creative Commons licence.

Type:string[]

Max results per query

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

Maximum results saved per search query (and per search-results URL in Start URLs).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:5000

Default:50

Start URLs

startUrls

Optional

Optional. Any mix of video URLs (watch, youtu.be, /shorts/, /live/), channel URLs (@handle, /channel/UC…, /c/…, /user/…, optionally ending in /videos, /shorts or /streams), playlist URLs and search-result URLs (youtube.com/results?search_query=…).

Type:array

Channel tabs

channelTabs

Optional

Which tabs to scrape for channel URLs: Videos, Shorts and/or Live (past and current streams). A channel URL that ends in /shorts, /videos or /streams uses only that tab.

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "videos"
]

Max videos per channel tab

maxVideosPerChannel

Optional

Maximum items saved from each selected tab of each channel (newest first). With Videos + Shorts selected you can get up to twice this number per channel.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10000

Default:50

Max videos per playlist

maxVideosPerPlaylist

Optional

Maximum videos saved from each playlist, in playlist order.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10000

Default:50

Include channel info

includeChannelInfo

Optional

For channel URLs, also save one channel item: subscribers, total videos, total views, joined date, description, country, links, verified badge, avatar and banner.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Published after

publishedAfter

Optional

Optional ISO date (e.g. 2026-10-01). Skips channel and search results older than this and stops paging channel tabs (and date-sorted searches) once older videos appear. Approximate: lists only show "3 weeks ago". Shorts have no date in lists; with "Include video details" they are filtered by their exact date. Not applied to playlists or direct video URLs.

Type:string | null

Include video details

includeVideoDetails

Optional

Open each video's page for full details: description, tags, exact publish date, likes, comment count, category, chapters, captions, family-safe flag. Slower and charged as an extra "video-details" event per video. Off = list data only (faster, cheaper).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max concurrency

maxConcurrency

Optional

Parallel requests. Lower it if RUN_SUMMARY shows many blocks.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:50

Default:10

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify datacenter proxy by default. Blocked requests are retried on a new session with backoff and, from the 2nd retry, on RESIDENTIAL proxy (if your plan includes it). Max 4 retries.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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