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YouTube API

YouTube Scraper API for Videos, Comments, Channels & Playlists

Search YouTube videos, extract comments, get channel data, browse playlists, and track trending content through a developer API. Use Scrappa when you need YouTube data without YouTube Data API quota limits, OAuth flows, or Google Cloud billing.

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Structured JSON
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12
Endpoints
800M+
Videos indexed
$0.20
Per 1k requests

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Make one request. Inspect structured JSON.

Use the first endpoint in this API family with a Scrappa API key. Every account includes 500 free monthly credits, so you can validate the response shape before buying credits.

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Request 
curl -X GET "https://scrappa.co/api/youtube/search?query=laravel+tutorial&limit=5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
JSON response 
{
  "results": [
    {
      "video_id": "WbnY9s5fLJg",
      "title": "Laravel 11 Full Tutorial for Beginners",
      "channel": "Traversy Media",
      "channel_id": "UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA",
      "views": 284000,
      "published": "2 months ago",
      "duration": "1:42:15",
      "description": "Complete Laravel 11 tutorial covering...",
      "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/..."
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "page": 1,
    "has_next": true
  }
}

What you can build

Structured data for real applications. Here are some ideas.

Video Research & Analytics

Search and analyze video metadata including view counts, like ratios, publish dates, and engagement metrics. Build content research tools and trend dashboards.

Comment Analysis & Sentiment

Extract video comments at scale for sentiment analysis, audience research, brand monitoring, and community feedback analysis across any channel or topic.

Channel Intelligence

Get detailed channel profiles with subscriber counts, video counts, and descriptions. Monitor competitor channels and track creator growth over time.

Content Discovery & Curation

Search videos by keyword, find related content, browse playlists, and discover trending videos by country. Build content recommendation and curation systems.

Influencer Marketing

Research YouTube creators by niche, analyze their content and engagement, and evaluate channels for influencer marketing partnerships with real data.

Educational Content Tools

Extract video chapters, transcripts, and structured content data to build learning platforms, study tools, and educational content aggregators.

YouTube scraper API

Turn YouTube search, comments, and channel pages into JSON

Scrappa is built for developers searching for a YouTube scraper, YouTube comments API, YouTube video scraper API, or YouTube data API alternative. Start with one API key, test in the playground, and return structured JSON for the public YouTube data your application needs.

Video search returns titles, channel metadata, thumbnails, duration, publish dates, and result pagination for discovery workflows.

Comment endpoints are built for audience research, sentiment analysis, brand monitoring, and moderation dashboards.

Channel, playlist, related video, trending, and suggestion endpoints let you build a complete YouTube intelligence workflow from one provider.

No Google Cloud project, OAuth app, or YouTube Data API quota setup is required before your first request.

Choose the right YouTube API endpoint

Use Search for video discovery

Run keyword searches when your product needs YouTube results for content research, creator discovery, trend monitoring, or competitor analysis.

Open Search docs

Use Comments for audience analysis

Extract paginated comment threads when you need sentiment, feedback, common objections, or community data from public YouTube videos.

Open Comments docs

Use Channel endpoints for creator intelligence

Fetch channel profiles, videos, playlists, and community posts when you need structured data about creators or competitors.

Start with free credits

Every account includes 500 free monthly credits, so you can validate response fields before buying credits or moving a workflow to production.

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Available endpoints

Everything you need in one API.

Scrappa vs YouTube Data API v3

See how Scrappa compares to the official API.

Daily quota
Scrappa: Unlimited
YouTube Data API v3: 10,000 units/day
Video search
Scrappa: $0.20/1k
YouTube Data API v3: 100 units/request
Comment extraction
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3: Limited (quota heavy)
Channel analytics
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3: Requires OAuth
Trending videos
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3:
Related videos
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3: Deprecated
Video chapters
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3:
Community posts
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3:
OAuth required
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3: For most endpoints
Pay-as-you-go credit packs
Scrappa:
YouTube Data API v3:

Key features

Video search with date, duration, and relevance filters
Full video metadata including views, likes, and tags
Comment extraction with pagination and reply threads
Channel profiles with subscriber and video counts
Playlist browsing with full video metadata
Trending videos by country and category
Video chapters with timestamps
Search autocomplete suggestions
No YouTube Data API quotas or OAuth required
No Google Cloud account needed

Frequently asked questions

The official YouTube Data API v3 has strict daily quota limits (10,000 units/day by default), requires OAuth for many endpoints, and doesn't provide some data like video chapters or community posts. Scrappa has no quota limits, no OAuth flows, and provides more data types — all with simple API key authentication.

Yes. The Comments endpoint returns paginated comments with author info, like counts, reply threads, and timestamps. There are no quota limits, so you can extract all comments from any video regardless of count.

No. Scrappa is a standalone API. You don't need a Google Cloud project, OAuth consent screen, or YouTube Data API quota approval. Sign up, get your API key, and start querying YouTube data immediately.

Yes. The Trending endpoint accepts a country parameter (ISO country code) and category filter, returning currently trending videos for that market with full metadata including views, likes, and channel info.

You can search videos, get detailed video metadata (views, likes, tags, description, chapters), extract comments with replies, browse channel profiles and their videos/playlists/community posts, get related videos, trending content, playlist contents, and search suggestions — all in structured JSON.

Yes. Every Scrappa account gets 500 free credits per month with no credit card required. This lets you test all 12 YouTube endpoints before committing any budget — unlike the official API where quota limits can block you during development.

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