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Extract YouTube videos, channels, playlists, Shorts, comments, and transcripts — no API key, no quotas. Includes real like counts, subscriber counts, and comment counts via internal YouTube API enrichment. Priced at $1 per 1,000 results (60% cheaper than competitors).

What it scrapes

• Search — find videos by keyword with sort and date filters
• Channel — scrape all videos from any YouTube channel
• Playlist — extract videos from a playlist URL
• Video — get full metadata for a specific video
• Shorts — extract Shorts from a channel
• Comments — scrape comments from any video
• Subtitles / Transcripts — extract auto-generated or manual captions

Sample output

{
"video_id":"dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title":"Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
"description":"The official video...",
"channel_name":"Rick Astley",
"channel_id":"UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
"channel_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/...",
"view_count":1400000000,
"like_count":16000000,
"comment_count":3200000,
"subscriber_count":4100000,
"subscriber_text":"4.1M subscribers",
"published_at":"2009-10-25",
"duration":"3:33",
"duration_secs":213,
"thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg",
"keywords":["rick astley","never gonna give you up"],
"is_short":false,
"subtitles":null
}

Input

{
"scrapeType":"search",
"queries":["python tutorial for beginners"],
"resultsPerQuery":50,
"sortBy":"relevance",
"uploadDateFilter":"any",
"durationFilter":"any",
"includeSubtitles":false,
"enrichDetails":true,
"minViews":0,
"minLikes":0
}

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Use cases

• Competitor channel analysis with subscriber and engagement data
• Content research: find top videos by topic with real like/comment counts
• Influencer discovery with subscriber and view metrics
• AI/LLM pipelines: bulk extract transcripts for training or summarization
• Social listening: monitor comments on brand-related videos

Notes

• No proxy needed — YouTube allows datacenter IPs
• enrichDetails: true adds ~150ms per video for real engagement stats
• Channel and playlist scraping supports up to 5,000 results via continuation tokens
• Subtitles available for videos with auto-generated or manual captions

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 results — no API key costs, no quota limits. Competitors charge $2.40/1K.