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⚡ YouTube Trending Scraper — Top Videos by Topic (No Login, No API Key)

Find the most-viewed (viral) YouTube videos for any topic — without a key, a login, or a cookie. Give it a list of topics or keywords and get back the top-performing videos for each: title, view count, channel, published time, duration and full-resolution thumbnail. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, call it from the API, or have results delivered straight to Notion. Billed per video returned — empty or failed runs cost nothing.

No OAuth. No Data API quota to manage. No browser to babysit. Paste a topic and run.

Why this scraper wins

• 🔓 Truly keyless — talks to YouTube's internal InnerTube API directly. You never supply a Google account, API key, or cookies.
• 📈 Sorted by views — results come back ranked by view count, so the first rows are the actual trending/viral videos for each topic (YouTube retired the old standalone Trending feed; this is the reliable keyless replacement).
• 🧹 Clean, flat output — one tidy record per video, ready for spreadsheets, dashboards or LLM pipelines. No nested InnerTube soup.
• 🔁 Auto-dedupe — the same video is never returned (or charged) twice in a run.
• 📬 Built-in delivery — optionally push every run straight into Notion via Apify connectors, no extra code.
• 🚦 Honest errors — if a topic is blocked or returns nothing, you get a clear diagnostic row (NO_RESULTS, NETWORK, etc.) instead of silent emptiness.
• 💸 Pay per result — only charged for videos actually returned.

What you can collect

Input

Output (one record per video)

{
"ok":true,
"videoId":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title":"Top Music Video of the Week",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"channelName":"Example Channel",
"channelId":"UCabc123XYZ",
"viewCountText":"128,452,901 views",
"publishedTimeText":"3 weeks ago",
"lengthText":"4:21",
"thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
"mode":"trending"
}

If a topic fails or returns nothing, you get a diagnostic row instead, e.g. { "ok": false, "errorCode": "NO_RESULTS", ... }.

Pricing

$0.40 per 1,000 videos ($0.0004 per video, pay-per-event). You are only charged for videos actually returned — failed or empty runs cost nothing.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or YouTube Data API key? No. The actor is fully keyless — no account, no OAuth, no quota.

Why topic search instead of a "Trending" tab? YouTube retired its standalone Trending feed. Searching a topic sorted by view count is the reliable keyless way to surface the most-viewed/viral videos, and lets you target any niche.

Why are view counts text ("128,452,901 views")? That's exactly what YouTube's frontend returns. Parse to a number with a quick replace(/\D/g, "") if you need an integer.

Can I get results in Notion? Yes — supply a notionConnector (and optional notionParentId) and every run is delivered automatically via Apify connectors.

A topic returned an errorCode row — why? That's the actor telling you exactly what happened (e.g. NO_RESULTS, NETWORK) instead of failing silently. Retry, rephrase the topic, or switch proxy country.