YouTube Keyword & Tag Suggestions Scraper (No API Key)

Find the exact keywords, video tags and title ideas that real people type into YouTube search — straight from YouTube's own autocomplete. This actor turns a handful of seed keywords into hundreds of ranked long-tail suggestions using A-Z expansion, with no API key, no login, and datacenter-proxy-friendly requests.

Perfect for YouTube SEO, video tag research, content ideation and title research for creators, agencies and channel managers.

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Why use this actor

• No API key, no OAuth — nothing to configure, runs out of the box.
• A-Z expansion USP — every seed is also queried as seed a … seed z, surfacing long-tail keyword and tag ideas most tools miss.
• Real YouTube search data — pulled from YouTube's live autocomplete endpoint, ranked exactly as YouTube ranks them.
• Localized — control language (hl) and country (gl) for market-specific keywords.
• Cheap & fast — datacenter proxies are enough; typical runs cost around $0.5 per 1,000 suggestions.

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Use cases

• YouTube SEO — discover the phrases your audience actually searches for.
• Video tags — build high-relevance tag lists for every upload.
• Content ideas — mine long-tail topics for your next 100 videos.
• Title research — validate and A/B different title angles before recording.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	suggest	Scraping mode (autocomplete + optional A-Z expansion).
keywords	array	["minecraft","how to"]	Seed keywords / phrases to expand.
language	string	en	Suggestion language (YouTube hl).
country	string	US	Two-letter country code (YouTube gl).
alphabetExpansion	boolean	true	Also query seed a … seed z for long-tails.
maxItems	integer	500	Max unique suggestions (hard cap 5000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "suggest",
  "keywords": ["minecraft", "how to tie a tie"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "alphabetExpansion": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output

Each dataset item is one suggestion:

{
  "keyword": "minecraft horror",
  "seed": "minecraft",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "rank": 2,
  "source": "youtube",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T14:46:00+00:00"
}

Results are de-duplicated by (keyword, seed).

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Pricing

Roughly $0.5 per 1,000 suggestions, depending on A-Z expansion and platform compute. Turn off alphabetExpansion for fast, cheap single-query lookups.

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Related actors

• YouTube Channel Scraper
• Google Keyword Suggestions Scraper
• Amazon Keyword Scraper
• Bing Keyword Scraper

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Keywords

youtube keyword tool, youtube tag generator, youtube seo, video tags, youtube autocomplete, keyword suggestions, youtube search suggestions, content ideas, video title research, long-tail keywords, youtube keyword research, tag scraper.