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YouTube Search Scraper

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Search YouTube and export video title, URL, channel, views, duration, thumbnail, and publish time. Filters for date, type, duration, sort, HD, live, and captions.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 search results

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Developer

datacortex

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

3 days ago

Last modified

What you get

Field	Example
`title`	How to Make a Website in 10 Minutes
`url`	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK9XuImr8Xg
`videoId`	LK9XuImr8Xg
`channelName`	Web Dev Simplified
`channelUrl`	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC…
`views`	1200000
`duration`	10:32
`publishedTime`	2 weeks ago
`thumbnailUrl`	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/…/hq720.jpg

Standard search returns up to 20 results per query. Turn on Deep search for up to 700.

How to run

Open the Actor in Apify Console.
Enter one search term per line under Search queries.
Optional: set country, upload date, type, duration, sort, HD / live / captions.
Click Start. Open the Output tab when the run finishes.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["how to make a website"],
  "deep": false,
  "maxResults": 20,
  "sortBy": "relevance"
}

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datacortex~youtube-search-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries":["how to make a website"],"deep":false}'

Replace YOUR_TOKEN with an Apify API token.

Use with MCP / agents

This is a normal Apify Actor. Agents call it through Apify MCP — you do not run a separate MCP process.

Pin this Actor as a tool (after it is public):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=datacortex/youtube-search-scraper"
    }
  }
}

The agent should fetch-actor-details on datacortex/youtube-search-scraper, then run it with the same JSON as Example input above. Running Actors requires an Apify token (OAuth in the client, or Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>).

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 results + $0.001 per run.

Event	When it fires	Price
`apify-actor-start`	Once when the run starts	$0.001
`apify-default-dataset-item`	Once per dataset row (usually one video)	$0.0005 ($0.50 / 1,000)

Job	Rows	You pay
1 query, standard (~20 videos)	20	$0.001 + $0.010 = $0.011
10 queries, standard	~200	$0.001 + $0.100 = $0.101
1 query, deep (~700 videos)	700	$0.001 + $0.350 = $0.351

Set a max total charge per run so a deep search cannot overrun budget. The Actor stops when that limit is reached.

Input reference

Field	Required	Default	Notes
`queries`	yes	—	One term per line, max 1,000
`deep`	no	`false`	`true` → up to 700 results / query
`maxResults`	no	all	Hard cap across every query
`geoLocation`	no	—	e.g. `United States`
`uploadDate`	no	—	`last_hour`, `today`, `this_week`, `this_month`, `this_year`
`resultType`	no	—	`video`, `channel`, `playlist`, `movie`
`duration`	no	—	`<4`, `4-20`, `>20`
`sortBy`	no	`relevance`	`relevance`, `upload_date`, `view_count`, `rating`
`hd` / `live` / `subtitles`	no	`false`	YouTube quality filters

Limitations

This Actor searches YouTube. It does not download video files, transcripts, or comments.
View counts and “published X ago” are what YouTube shows on the search page, not live analytics.
Failed queries write one type: "error" row so you can see which term failed.

Local development

python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env
apify run --input-file=apify_input.json --purge

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

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