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Turn YouTube into clean, analysis-ready data in minutes.

This Apify Actor extracts public data from YouTube videos, channels, playlists, and search results, with optional subtitle capture for deeper content analysis.

Features

• Start fast: scrape by URL (video, channel, playlist, search page) or by search term
• Stay in control: set independent limits for regular videos, Shorts, and live streams
• Refine channel results: filter by date range and sort by Newest, Popular, or Oldest
• Narrow search intent: apply sorting and upload-date filters to target the right content
• Go deeper with subtitles: download tracks as SRT, WEBVTT, XML, or plain text, and optionally persist to key-value store
• Debug with confidence: errors are pushed as explicit dataset items (via the error field), never hidden failures

Input

{
"startUrls":[
{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl"},
{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7gfrTlr0Y"}
],
"searchQueries":["lofi hip hop"],
"maxResults":10,
"maxResultsShorts":10,
"maxResultStreams":10,
"sortingOrder":"relevance",
"dateFilter":"week",
"oldestPostDate":"2 months",
"sortVideosBy":"NEWEST",
"downloadSubtitles":false,
"saveSubsToKVS":false,
"subtitlesLanguage":"en",
"subtitlesFormat":"srt",
"preferAutoGeneratedSubtitles":false
}

Output

Video item

{
"title":"Stromae - Santé (Live From The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)",
"id":"CW7gfrTlr0Y",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7gfrTlr0Y",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CW7gfrTlr0Y/maxresdefault.jpg",
"viewCount":35582192,
"date":"2021-12-21",
"likes":512238,
"location":null,
"channelName":"StromaeVEVO",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@StromaeVEVO",
"numberOfSubscribers":6930000,
"duration":"00:03:17",
"commentsCount":14,
"text":"...",
"descriptionLinks":[],
"hashtags":[],
"subtitles":null,
"comments":null,
"isMonetized":true,
"commentsTurnedOff":false
}

Channel item

{
"id":"HV6OlMPn5sI",
"title":"Raimu - The Spirit Within 🍃 [lofi hip hop/relaxing beats]",
"duration":"29:54",
"channelName":"Lofi Girl",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow",
"date":"10 months ago",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6OlMPn5sI",
"viewCount":410458,
"channelDescription":"...",
"numberOfSubscribers":13100000,
"channelTotalVideos":409,
"channelTotalViews":"1,710,167,563",
"channelJoinedDate":"Mar 18, 2015",
"channelLocation":"France",
"inputChannelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl/about"
}

Search / playlist item

{
"id":"CwRMBKk8St0",
"title":"LET'S ARGUE: Beyoncé Fails the Bechdel Test!",
"duration":"13:48",
"channelName":"fantano",
"channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/@fantano",
"date":"5 years ago",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwRMBKk8St0",
"viewCount":635379,
"fromYTUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bechdel+test"
}

Error item

{
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/@somechannel",
"input":"somechannel",
"error":"CHANNEL_DOES_NOT_EXIST",
"note":"Channel does not exist"
}

Error codes