YouTube Scraper

Apify

Collect public YouTube videos, channels and search results with video metadata.

Capability: YouTube content research
Current price: $0.0056/result
Availability: Ready to run

What this API does

Search YouTube and return a bounded set of public video metadata.

Agents select this operation with tool ID apify.streamers-youtube-scraper, then check its current inputs and price before a run.

Inputs and outputs

Input

inputobject · optional

Provider-specific public source, URL or search criteria.

maxItemsnumber · optional

Maximum number of records to return.

Output

channelNamestring

Returned channel name value.

channelUrlstring

Returned channel url value.

datestring

Returned date value.

durationstring

Returned duration value.

hashtagsarray

Returned hashtags value.

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idstring

Returned id value.

inputstring

Provider-specific public source, URL or search criteria.

titlestring

Returned title value.

typestring

Returned type value.

urlstring

Returned url value.

Example request and output

Inspect returns this reviewed example, its estimated cost and the current input schema. Run calculates the estimate for your actual input.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "apify.streamers-youtube-scraper",
  "input": {
    "input": {
      "maxResults": 2,
      "searchQueries": [
        "Crawlee"
      ],
      "maxResultStreams": 0,
      "maxResultsShorts": 0
    },
    "maxItems": 2
  }
}

Output

{
  "id": "g1Ll9OlFwEQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ll9OlFwEQ",
  "date": "2022-08-22T15:26:13.000Z",
  "type": "video",
  "input": "Crawlee",
  "title": "Crawlee, the web scraping and browser automation library",
  "duration": "00:03:14",
  "hashtags": [
    "#webscraping",
    "#crawlee"
  ],
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@Apify",
  "channelName": "Apify"
}

Errors and limitations

No listing-specific teaching errors are published. Inspect the tool before running to receive the current schema and error guidance.