YouTube Search Scraper

Yes — public videos and channel stats are public data. Titles, view counts and subscriber numbers sit in the open for anyone who visits, and we take nothing else. The details are in our guide to the legality of web scraping.

No login required. No account, no cookie, no session to sync, nothing to install. Type a keyword or paste a URL and the run starts — the same results you would get yourself, minus the scrolling and the copy-pasting.

A plain keyword or almost any YouTube URL. Type it exactly as you would in the search bar, or paste a search, hashtag, playlist or channel URL — a channel's Videos, Shorts, Live or Playlists tab included. A single video URL comes back as one row.

40 data points per row. Title, URL, thumbnail, description, hashtags, publish date, duration, views, likes, comment count, category, live and upcoming markers, the captions on offer and their languages, plus the channel's name, handle, subscribers, country and join date.

Around 200 videos a minute for a plain listing. Switch on enrichment, comments or transcripts and it slows down — transcripts most of all, so save those for a shortlist rather than ten thousand search results.

Every filter the YouTube search bar offers. Content type, upload date, length, live broadcasts only, sort by relevance or views, and features such as subtitles, HD, 4K, HDR, 360°, VR180, 3D and Creative Commons. A pasted search URL keeps the filters it already carries.

As many as YouTube will serve for that query. No cap by default — it works through every page of results until they stop. Set a maximum per search, or one for the whole run, when a long keyword list needs keeping on a leash.

Yes — switch on Get Comments and Get Subtitles. Comments come back up to 10 per video with author, votes and posting date; Subtitles pulls the transcript in the language you pick. On a search or a listing, both want Enrich Results switched on too.

1 credit per video for a plain listing. Enrich Results, Get Comments and Get Subtitles are 1 extra credit per video each, so a video with all three switched on costs 4 credits. Leave them off and a big keyword sweep stays cheap.

Wherever you already work. Google Sheets, Make, n8n, Amazon S3, email and webhooks — plus our MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can kick off a run and read the results itself. CSV, Excel and JSON downloads too. See all integrations.

URL, such as scrape leads from google maps. Paste thousands at once or upload a CSV; duplicate inputs are skipped. 19 settings shape the run: see them in the playground.

40 data attributes per video, each with its description and an example: see the full list.

No. Duplicates are removed, and you only pay for unique results.

As fresh as your run: each run collects the data from the site at the moment it runs, nothing comes from a stored database.

CSV, Excel or JSON from the dashboard, through the API, or sent after every run to Google Sheets, Amazon S3, an SFTP server, a webhook or by email.

7 days on the free plan, 45 days on Starter and Pro, 90 days on Team and Business. Then they can no longer be downloaded. Download or deliver what you want to keep.

Around 200 videos a minute for one squid. Your plan's slots run several squids at the same time.

99.02% of its runs had no incident over the last 90 days (7 incidents, 100% fixed). Every day is on this page.

Our team fixes the scraper: every scraper on lobstr.io is built and maintained by us. Over the last 90 days, the median time to fix this one was 16h 1min. How we measure.

Yes, on paid plans: every hour, every day, every weekday or on a custom schedule, in your time zone.

Yes: set the most results per task and per run in the settings. The run stops there and so does the bill.

1 credit per result. The playground shows the price as you pick them.

Yes. The free plan gives 100 credits every month, 100 results with this scraper, exported in full.

Every month a plan gives credits, which pay for results, and slots, which set how many squids run at the same time. Starter: $20 for 10,000 credits; Pro: $100 for 100,000 credits; Team: $500 for 1,000,000 credits. Upgrades start right away and are prorated; downgrades and cancellations take effect at the end of the cycle.

No. Your credits refresh every month with your plan.

You choose, per squid: pause and pick up where it stopped, or end the run. To keep going, upgrade or reset your billing cycle: your plan renews right away and your credits come back. Auto Billing Reset does it for you when your usage crosses a threshold you set.

Yes: paying yearly takes 20% off every plan.

A monthly plan: within 10 days of the charge, if no credit was used in that period. A yearly plan: within 30 days, in full if no credit was used, otherwise minus one month. Cancel from your billing page, then write to contact@lobstr.io. The details are in the terms of use.

Collecting publicly available data is generally allowed, but you choose what you collect and you are responsible for how you use it. Our terms of use (article 6) ask every user to respect the rights of the sites, not to extract substantial parts of a database, not to access confidential data and to follow personal data law such as the GDPR. This is not legal advice.

When results contain personal data, you are the data controller and lobstr.io, a French company, processes them on your behalf, under our personal data agreement. You need a lawful basis for what you collect, must inform the people concerned and honor their requests.

Results: 7 days on the free plan, 45 days on Starter and Pro, 90 days on Team and Business, then they can no longer be downloaded; you can delete them sooner. Your account data: see the privacy notice.

Yes, through the REST API at https://api.lobstr.io/v1, with your key from the dashboard. The playground’s Code tab writes the calls for your settings, in cURL and Python. The documentation has the full reference.

Yes. Add our MCP server, https://mcp.lobstr.io/mcp, to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client and sign in with lobstr.io. Your agent shows the cost and asks you before a run spends credits. The playground’s Agent tab gives you a prompt.

No. Credits pay for results, not for requests.

Yes. Point a webhook at your server and lobstr.io calls it when a run succeeds or fails.

Yes, per endpoint: 120 requests a minute on squids and runs, 90 on tasks, 2 a second on results. Above that the API answers 429 with a Retry-After header.