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Youtube Scraper API

The YouTube Scraper API enables users to extract video metadata, search for content, retrieve comments and transcripts. The API provides multiple methods for discovering and collecting video data.

Key features

  • Keyword search: Search for videos using keywords. The initial discovery results contain partial metadata. To retrieve full video details, including transcripts and comments, discovered videos must be processed separately.

  • Channel scraping: Extract all available videos from a specified YouTube channel by providing the channel URL. To retrieve full video details, including transcripts and comments, discovered videos must be processed separately.

  • Video metadata extraction: Input a specific video URL to collect its full metadata, including engagement metrics, captions, descriptions, and comments.

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Authorization

You will need to authorize your requests by sending your API key in the x-api-key header.

You can use a valid Review Scraper API subscription to use this API .

Rate limiting

You can make up to 10 requests per second.

Once you go over your rate limit you will receive a 429 Too Many Requests error and will need to wait for the next time window to make more requests.