YouTube Scraper — Extract YouTube Data Automatically
Extract video metadata, channel statistics, comment data, and trending content from YouTube — the world's largest video platform. Our YouTube scraper collects public data including view counts, engagement metrics, subscriber counts, and video transcripts (via auto-captions) — ideal for content research, influencer marketing, and AI training datasets.
What We Extract From YouTube
| Field | What It Contains |
|---|---|
video_title_description_ | Video title, description, and URL |
channel_name_id_ | Channel name, ID, and subscriber count |
view_count_like_count_ | View count, like count, and comment count |
video_upload_date | Video upload date and duration |
video_category | Video category and tags |
thumbnail_image_urls | Thumbnail image URLs |
top_comments_text_author_likes_date_ | Top comments (text, author, likes, date) |
playlist_data_title_video_count_views_ | Playlist data (title, video count, views) |
channel_total_videos | Channel total videos and total view count |
channel_description | Channel description and contact links |
auto_generated_transcript_captions_text | Auto-generated transcript/captions text |
trending_rank_by_country | Trending rank by country and category |
* Custom fields available on request.
Why Businesses Use Our YouTube Scraper
How Our YouTube Scraper Works
Share Requirements
Tell us which YouTube pages to target, what fields you need, and how often.
We Build the Scraper
Our engineers configure the YouTube Scraper with proxy rotation, anti-bot bypass, and data cleaning.
Receive Clean Data
Structured YouTube data delivered in your preferred format — CSV, JSON, API, or database.
DataScraper.in vs Building It Yourself
You're too big for manual copy-paste, too small to justify a full scraping infrastructure team. DataScraper.in is built for exactly that gap.
| Feature | Build Yourself | SaaS Tool | ✓ DataScraper.in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup Time | 2–4 weeks | Minutes | 48 hours |
| Anti-Bot Handling | Manual | Limited | Enterprise proxies |
| Maintenance | You maintain it | Tool updates break it | We maintain |
| Cost | $500–2,000/mo dev | $99–499/month | Starts from $20 |
| Data Quality | Variable | Generic | QA verified |
| Support | None | Email tickets | WhatsApp direct |
| Delivery Time | Weeks | Hours | 48 hours |
YouTube is One of the Most Aggressively Bot-Protected Sites on the Internet. We Handle It Automatically.
Our infrastructure is purpose-built to bypass Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, and reCAPTCHA at scale — so you always get clean data, not block pages. 99.2% success rate across all active scrapers.
Data in Your Preferred Format
See What Your YouTube Data Looks Like
We send a free sample before any payment. Here's what a typical data row looks like — clean, structured, and ready to use.
[
{
"video_title_description_and_url": "YouTube — Sample Record #1",
"channel_name_id_and_subscriber_count": "$49.99",
"view_count_like_count_and_comment_count": 4.7,
"source_url": "https://youtube.com/item/12345",
"scraped_at": "2025-06-28T10:32:00Z"
},
{ "...": "50–100 records in free sample" }
]Free sample of 50–100 records provided before payment. No credit card required.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our web scraping services.
Yes. YouTube auto-generates captions for most videos. We extract the auto-caption text as a structured transcript — useful for AI training data, content analysis, sentiment research, and accessibility compliance audits.
We extract: video title, description, tags, category, view count, like count, comment count, upload date, duration, thumbnail URLs, and for channels: subscriber count, total videos, total views, channel description, and contact links.
Yes. We set up scheduled scrapers (daily or weekly) that track specific channels for new uploads, capturing metadata and engagement metrics — alerting you when competitors release new content.
Yes. YouTube's Data API has strict daily quota limits. Our scraping approach bypasses API quotas entirely, enabling large-scale data collection beyond what the official API allows — useful for research datasets requiring millions of records.
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First 50 records FREE — no credit card required.
Get YouTube Data Delivered in 48 Hours
Free sample dataset before you pay. Tell us what fields you need and we'll build your custom scraper.