YouTube Hashtag Scraper

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Scrape YouTube videos and Shorts by hashtag. Provide one or more hashtags and extract all tagged videos including title, channel info, view counts, publish time, duration, and more — without needing cookies or a browser.

Features

• Scrape videos from any YouTube hashtag page (youtube.com/hashtag/<tag>)
• Supports both regular videos and Shorts
• Filter by content type: All, Videos only, or Shorts only
• Paginate through all available results up to your configured limit
• Multi-market support (US, UK, Germany, India, Japan, Brazil, France, Spain, South Korea, Russia)
• HTTP-only approach — no browser overhead, fast and cost-efficient
• Clean output with no null fields

Input

Output

Each row in the dataset represents one video or Short:

Fields that cannot be populated are omitted from the output rather than returned as null.

Example Output

[
{
"hashtag":"programming",
"position":1,
"videoId":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title":"Learn Python in 10 Minutes",
"channelName":"Code Academy",
"channelId":"UC1234567890",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@codeacademy",
"viewCountText":"2.4M views",
"publishedTimeText":"1 month ago",
"durationText":"10:42",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg",
"isShort":false,
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-19T10:00:00+00:00"
},
{
"hashtag":"programming",
"position":2,
"videoId":"abcde12345",
"title":"#coding life 🖥️",
"viewCountText":"58K views",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abcde12345/hqdefault.jpg",
"isShort":true,
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-19T10:00:00+00:00"
}
]

FAQ

Do I need cookies or a YouTube account? No. YouTube hashtag pages are fully public. This actor uses HTTP requests only — no browser, no login, no cookies required.

Why are some fields missing from Shorts? YouTube's Shorts cards don't expose channel info, duration, or publish time in the same way as regular videos. The scraper only outputs fields that actually contain data — no null/empty placeholders.

How many results can I get per hashtag? Up to 500 per hashtag. YouTube typically loads around 24 videos per page; the scraper automatically paginates using YouTube's InnerTube API to collect more.

What does the market setting do? It sets the gl (country) and hl (language) parameters on the request, which changes the regional ranking and language of results. Use US for English results.

Can I scrape multiple hashtags at once? Yes — just add multiple entries to the hashtags list. The actor scrapes each hashtag sequentially and combines all results in the output dataset.

What content types are available?

• all — Scrapes the "All" tab (regular videos) plus the "Shorts" tab.
• videos — Scrapes only the "All" tab, skipping Shorts.
• shorts — Fetches only the "Shorts" tab content.

What if a hashtag has no videos? The actor logs a warning and continues to the next hashtag — it won't crash the run.

YouTube Scraper Suite

This actor is part of a complete YouTube data extraction toolkit. Explore the full suite: