YouTube Search Videos Scraper

Search for YouTube videos by keyword. Returns video title, URL, channel name, channel ID, video ID, publication date, description snippet, view count, video length, thumbnail, and a flag for live content. Supports filtering by upload date and fetching up to 10 pages in a single call.

Features

• Real-time YouTube data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
query	string	yes	Search query (max 500 characters)
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch and merge (1-10). Billed per page.
upload_date	string	no	Filter by upload date One of: last_hour, today, this_week, this_month, this_year.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per page of results — $0.005 per page.

• Results come in pages. Use the pages input to choose how many pages to fetch (1–10); more pages means more results.
• You pay $0.005 for each page you fetch, so pages: 3 costs $0.015 and pages: 1 costs $0.005.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "count": 16,
  "pages": 1,
  "posts": [
    {
      "author": "YouFact Tech",
      "channel_id": "UCSWZxpzUTkriCZRe0Nl0UqA",
      "date": "2026-02-03 21:35:11",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "is_live": null,
      "keywords": [],
      "snippet": "We've gathered some truly wild gadgets, including a mirror that estimates your lifespan just by analyzing blood flow, a holographic ...",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fuiJ-3CdU3Q/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNAFEJQDSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLAev9WRIrRFlpYFnrcJt1FV-UFF7A",
      "title": "Coolest New Technologies of 2026",
      "type": "NORMAL",
      "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=fuiJ-3CdU3Q",
      "video_id": "fuiJ-3CdU3Q",
      "video_length": "18:07",
      "views": 301590
    },
    {
      "author": "TechZone",
      "channel_id": "UC6H07z6zAwbHRl4Lbl0GSsw",
      "date": "2025-04-04 21:35:11",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "is_live": null,
      "keywords": [],
      "snippet": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwqyIeElDirBZZwYmmeIYw ...",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dxWb1Vd9aq8/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNAFEJQDSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLDKtEblR7Wiw30NG-_uy0p-LejuMw",
      "title": "20 INVENTIONS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD",
      "type": "NORMAL",
      "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=dxWb1Vd9aq8",
      "video_id": "dxWb1Vd9aq8",
      "video_length": "20:10",
      "views": 1370776
    },
    {
      "author": "Core Insights",
      "channel_id": "UCM8NnqS3-cqgUI1MLrZ8X4A",
      "date": "2026-03-26 21:35:11",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "is_live": null,
      "keywords": [],
      "snippet": "A company that started by selling smartphones, air fryers, and electric scooters
  ... (truncated)

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable YouTube and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.