YouTube Music Song Scraper 🎵

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Scrape detailed song information from YouTube Music search results. This actor helps you gather comprehensive music data including song titles, artists, albums, play counts, and more.

Features ✨

• 🔍 Search for songs using keywords
• 📊 Get detailed song metadata
• 🎨 Multiple thumbnail sizes
• 🔗 Complete URLs for songs, artists, and albums
• ⏱️ Duration and play count information
• 📅 Timestamp for when data was scraped

Use Cases 💡

• Music trend analysis
• Artist popularity tracking
• Playlist creation and management
• Music catalog building
• Research and data analysis

Output 📋

The actor provides detailed information for each song, including:

• Song title and video ID
• Artist name and channel ID
• Album name and ID
• Thumbnail images in different sizes
• Song duration
• Play count statistics
• Complete URLs for all entities
• Timestamp of data collection

Input Parameters 🎛️

Tips 💡

• Use specific keywords for more targeted results
• Adjust maxItems based on your data needs
• Consider rate limiting for large-scale scraping

Limitations ⚠️

• Results depend on YouTube Music's search algorithm
• Some songs might have incomplete data
• Play counts are approximate values

Need help or have questions? Feel free to reach out through Apify's platform!

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
"keywords":[
"u2"
],
"maxItems":100
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
{
"keyword":"u2",
"data":{
"title":"With Or Without You",
"videoId":"oNvWDP_GkiY",
"thumbnails":[
{
"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wJlCrdtCtp9vkjWNFurUqhxrppYKGcDcN0ZpwP0CC3z-dhtjw1yMQkFszwe4SZTMiukr7YSvWZ6Sh9Ec=w60-h60-l90-rj",
"width":60,
"height":60
},
{
"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wJlCrdtCtp9vkjWNFurUqhxrppYKGcDcN0ZpwP0CC3z-dhtjw1yMQkFszwe4SZTMiukr7YSvWZ6Sh9Ec=w120-h120-l90-rj",
"width":120,
"height":120
}
],
"artist":{
"name":"U2",
"id":"UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ",
"url":"https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCqIQRxCUGi7hyJisyzv9zYQ"
},
"album":{
"name":"The Joshua Tree (Super Deluxe)",
"id":"MPREb_Q8UrZ760tV6",
"url":"https://music.youtube.com/browse/MPREb_Q8UrZ760tV6"
},
"duration":"4:56",
"plays":"487M plays",
"url":"https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvWDP_GkiY"
},
"scrapedAt":"2025-02-09T12:17:04.580Z"
},
 ...
]

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