YouTube Search Scraper – Bulk Keywords, Videos & Shorts

What does YouTube Search Scraper do?

YouTube Search Scraper gives you YouTube's search results for any keyword as clean rows: title, URL, views, channel, upload date, length, thumbnail and a Shorts flag. Put in one keyword or a hundred, and every row tells you which keyword it came from.

No YouTube API key, no Google Cloud project and no 10,000-units-a-day quota. It runs on Apify, so you can schedule it, call it from the API, or send the results straight to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.

What people use it for

• Keyword and SEO research: see which videos and channels own a search term before you make a video about it.
• Rank tracking: run the same keywords every day or week and watch who moves up.
• Competitor research: find out who keeps showing up for your niche's keywords, and how many views they pull.
• Finding creators: build a list of channels to sponsor or reach out to, sorted by views.
• Feeding other tools and AI pipelines: get video URLs in bulk, then pull transcripts, comments or full details with the related tools below.
• Shorts research: keep only Shorts, or drop them, depending on what you're studying.

Why use this one?

• Bulk keywords in one run: up to 100 queries per run, each searched separately, with a query field on every row.
• Filters that run before you pay: Shorts only or no Shorts, min/max length, upload date (24 h, week, month, year), and sort by relevance or views. Videos filtered out never become rows.
• Clean, flat rows: the same fields every time, ready for CSV or Excel without cleanup.
• Fast: a normal search comes back in seconds.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Type one or more keywords in Search queries.
3. Set Max Results per keyword (1 to 100, default 10).
4. Optionally add filters: Shorts, length, upload date, sort order.
5. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab.

Input

{
  "queries": ["python tutorial for beginners", "ai news this week"],
  "max_results": 20,
  "upload_date_filter": "last_month",
  "exclude_shorts": true
}

Field	Type	Description	Default
queries	array	Keywords or phrases, each searched separately (up to 100)	required
query	string	Single query (older field, still works; merged with queries)	—
max_results	integer	Max videos per query, 1 to 100	10
shorts_only / exclude_shorts	boolean	Keep only Shorts, or drop them (not both)	false
min_duration / max_duration	integer	Length limits in seconds	—
upload_date_filter	string	last_24h, last_week, last_month or last_year	any
sort_by	string	relevance or view_count. YouTube removed sorting by date and rating in 2025, so those two give relevance order; use the upload date filter for recent videos	relevance

Output

One row per video. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it from the API.

{
  "query": "python tutorial for beginners",
  "title": "Python Tutorial for Beginners - Full Course",
  "video_id": "example",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example",
  "uploader": "Programming with Mosh",
  "uploader_id": "@programmingwithmosh",
  "upload_date": "20250115",
  "duration": 22440,
  "view_count": 4200000,
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example/hqdefault.jpg",
  "short": false
}

Field	Type	Description
query	string	The search query this row came from
title	string	Video title
video_id	string	YouTube video ID
url	string	Full YouTube URL
uploader / uploader_id	string	Channel name and handle
upload_date	string	Upload date (YYYYMMDD), worked out from YouTube's "3 days ago" text, so older videos are approximate (to the month or year)
duration	number	Length in seconds
view_count	number	View count
thumbnail	string	Thumbnail image URL
short	boolean	true for Shorts

Shorts rows: YouTube lists Shorts as cards with only the title, views and thumbnail, so uploader, upload_date and duration are empty on those rows.

How many results will I get?

You pay per result, so the bill follows the number of rows. Your plan's rates are on the Pricing tab.

Input	Results
1 query, max results 50	Up to 50 rows
3 queries, max results 50	Up to 150 rows
100 queries, max results 100	Up to 10,000 rows

You can get fewer than the max when YouTube has fewer results for a keyword, or when your filters drop some. Filtered-out videos aren't charged.

Tips

• Keep Max Results small (10–20) for rank tracking. The top results are what matter, and it keeps scheduled runs cheap.
• For "what's new on this topic", use the upload date filter. YouTube no longer sorts by date.
• To find big channels in a niche, sort by View Count and set a minimum length to skip Shorts and clips.
• Got the URLs? Send them to YouTube Video Details, Transcript & Comments Scraper for likes, tags, chapters, transcripts and comments.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube account or API key? No. It reads YouTube's public search results, the same ones you see in a browser.

How many results can I get per keyword? Up to 100 per query. For more coverage, add variations of the keyword as extra queries ("python tutorial", "learn python", "python course").

Can I search a specific country or language? Not yet. Results come from YouTube's English (US) interface, but videos in any language show up when your keyword is in that language.

Does it get channels or playlists? No, videos and Shorts only.

Is it maintained? Yes, I use it and fix it. If something breaks, open an issue in the Issues tab and I'll look at it.

Need a custom feature? Open an issue or message me on Discord: maged03211

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