YouTube Video & Channel Scraper
YouTube video metadata and channel data by URL, ID or @handle — view counts, duration, publish date, category, keywords, caption languages; channel subscriber…
Community: Submitted by a user or imported; check the owner before granting accessOnlineAPI key requiredGlobalFreeCan modify data
What it can do
- Get Actor Run: Get detailed information about a specific Actor run. Returns run result: status, storages (datasets/keyValueStores alias map), stats, summary, nextStep. - summary describes the past (e.
- Get Dataset Items: Get items (rows) from a dataset — the output/results produced by an Actor run. Returns the rows themselves, not dataset metadata, counts, or a schema. When the user provides a datas
- Get Key Value Store Record: Get the value stored under a specific key in a key-value store — a single record, not a listing of all keys. Requires the exact key name. The response preserves the origina
What data it sees
Do you need an account
An API key from the service settings is required
YouTube video metadata and channel data by URL, ID or @handle — view counts, duration, publish date, category, keywords, caption languages; channel subscriber counts and recent video lists; filters by views, duration, date and title applied before the page is fetched. No YouTube Data API key, no quota, no login. Runs on Apify; you pay per result ($0.015/video, $0.005/channel) at the same price on every plan, and only for rows that actually came back. Bring your Apify token (free account works).
Cannot do: transcripts/subtitle text, comments, search, exact like counts (YouTube hides them from logged-out clients).
Server tool list (5)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| get-actor-run | Get detailed information about a specific Actor run. Returns run result: status, storages (datasets/keyValueStores alias map), stats, summary, nextStep. - summary describes the past (e.g. "SUCCEEDED in 22s. 47 items; 3 fields available."). - nextStep prescribes one primary follow-up action with identifiers interpolated (e.g. "Use get-dataset-items with datasetId=..."). - waitSecs (0–45, default 30) waits up to that many seconds for terminal status before returning. USAGE: - Use to check the status of a run started by any Actor-running tool. - Pass waitSecs > 0 to block until terminal (or until the cap elapses). USAGE EXAMPLES: - user_input: Show details of run y2h7sK3Wc - user_input: Wait for run y2h7sK3Wc to finish |
| get-dataset-items | Get items (rows) from a dataset — the output/results produced by an Actor run. Returns the rows themselves, not dataset metadata, counts, or a schema. When the user provides a datasetId and asks to retrieve results, output, data, or rows, call this tool directly. Default limit is 20. Use clean=true to skip empty items and hidden fields. USAGE: - Use when you need to read data from a dataset (all items or only selected fields). USAGE EXAMPLES: - user_input: Retrieve results from dataset abc123 - user_input: Get only metadata.url and title from dataset username~my-dataset |
| get-key-value-store-record | Get the value stored under a specific key in a key-value store — a single record, not a listing of all keys. Requires the exact key name. The response preserves the original Content-Encoding; most clients handle decompression automatically. USAGE: - Use when you need to retrieve a specific record (JSON, text, or binary) from a store. USAGE EXAMPLES: - user_input: Get record INPUT from store abc123 - user_input: Get record data.json from store username~my-store |
| abort-actor-run | Abort an Actor run that is currently starting or running. For runs with status SUCCEEDED, FAILED, ABORTING, ABORTED, or TIMED-OUT, this call has no effect. The results will include the updated run details after the abort request. USAGE: - Use when you need to stop a run that is taking too long or misconfigured. USAGE EXAMPLES: - user_input: Abort run y2h7sK3Wc - user_input: Gracefully abort run y2h7sK3Wc |
| nick-dot-cheng--youtube-video-channel-scraper | This tool calls the Actor "nick.cheng/youtube-video-channel-scraper" and retrieves its output results. Use this tool instead of the "call-actor" if user requests this specific Actor. Actor description: Scrape YouTube video metadata and channel data by URL, ID or @handle — view counts, subscriber counts, video lists, duration, category, keywords. Filter by views, duration, date or title before paying. A no-API-key alternative to the YouTube Data API. No login. Charged only for results returned. |