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YouTube Scraper

Collect YouTube video and channel data from search terms or URLs, including titles, views and publication dates.

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From web pages to a dataset

What you can do

Find videos matching your research topics.

Compare video metadata and public engagement.

Build a structured catalogue for reporting.

Set your sources

Open the scraper and enter your own URLs, search terms and limits.

Review & run

Check the cost estimate and confirm the task. Follow its progress in your account.

Use your data

Explore saved results and export CSV, JSON or XLSX. Downloads of saved results are free.

Know what to expect

Sample data & output fields

Illustrative example

These example values demonstrate the data shape; they are not a live scraper result. Available fields depend on the source, selected options and upstream data.

JSON · illustrative result

[
  {
    "title": "Example title",
    "id": "example-001",
    "url": "https://example.com/result",
    "viewCount": 100,
    "date": "2026-01-15T12:00:00Z"
  }
]

Field	Type	Description
`title`	string	The title of the YouTube video
`id`	string	The unique YouTube video ID
`url`	string	The full URL of the video
`viewCount`	number	The number of views on the video
`date`	string	The publish date of the video

Start with a real configuration

Example input

This is the configured parser input. Replace the example sources with your own and review all limits before running.

JSON · example input

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "web scraping tutorials"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "maxResultsShorts": 5,
  "maxResultStreams": 0,
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    }
  ],
  "transcriptionAndSubtitle": "NONE",
  "subtitlesLanguage": "en",
  "subtitlesFormat": "srt",
  "sortingOrder": "relevance",
  "dateFilter": "month",
  "videoType": "video",
  "lengthFilter": "between420",
  "oldestPostDate": "2024-01-01",
  "sortVideosBy": "NEWEST",
  "aiVideoDescription": false,
  "aiVideoSummary": false
}

Explore input fields

Field	Type	Notes
`searchQueries`	array	Enter search terms just like you would enter it in YouTube's search bar.
`maxResults`	integer	Limit the number of videos you want to crawl. If you scrape a channel, acts as a limit for regular videos.
`maxResultsShorts`	integer	Limit the number of Shorts videos you want to crawl.
`maxResultStreams`	integer	Limit the number of Stream videos you want to crawl.
`startUrls`	array	Enter a link to a YouTube video , channel , playlist , hashtag or search results page . You can also import a CSV file or Google Sheet with a list of URLs. Note: Input from Search term will be ignored when using this option. If you only want to scrape…
`transcriptionAndSubtitle`	string	Choose whether to download subtitles, transcribe the video using speech-to-text AI, or both. Leave empty to skip subtitles and transcription. Subtitles are added to the dataset items, while transcripts are stored in the key-value store
`subtitlesLanguage`	string	Language to download subtitles in. Note: a subtitle-downloading option must be selected in Transcription & subtitles for this to work.
`subtitlesFormat`	string	Select in what format you want to download subtitles
`sortingOrder`	string	Select Youtube sorting parameter for search
`dateFilter`	string	Select Youtube upload date filter for search
`videoType`	string	Select Youtube video type filter for search
`lengthFilter`	string	Select Youtube video length filter for search
`oldestPostDate`	string	Only posts uploaded after or on this date will be scraped. Alternatively, specify how old the scraped videos should be in days. Putting 1 day will get you only today's posts, 2 days - yesterday's and today's, and so on. Note, that if you select this,…
`sortVideosBy`	string	Maps to the sorting buttons on the top of the channel's 'Videos', 'Shorts' and 'Live' pages.
`aiVideoDescription`	boolean	If enabled, uses AI to generate a time-segmented description of the video, covering both visual and audio content for each segment.
`aiVideoSummary`	boolean	If enabled, uses AI to generate a concise conceptual summary of the video covering both visual and audio content.

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Run through the API

Create an API key in your account, send the input to the queued endpoint and use the returned task ID to retrieve results. Sending a live request uses credits.

cURL · queue a task

curl --request POST 'https://extracto.cloud/api/v1/parsers/youtube-scraper/queue' \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: ext_your_api_key' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --data-binary @- <<'JSON'
{
  "input": {
    "searchQueries": [
      "web scraping tutorials"
    ],
    "maxResults": 10,
    "maxResultsShorts": 5,
    "maxResultStreams": 0,
    "startUrls": [
      {
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
      }
    ],
    "transcriptionAndSubtitle": "NONE",
    "subtitlesLanguage": "en",
    "subtitlesFormat": "srt",
    "sortingOrder": "relevance",
    "dateFilter": "month",
    "videoType": "video",
    "lengthFilter": "between420",
    "oldestPostDate": "2024-01-01",
    "sortVideosBy": "NEWEST",
    "aiVideoDescription": false,
    "aiVideoSummary": false
  }
}
JSON

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