How to Scrape YouTube Search — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull YouTube Search data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the YouTube Search Scraper - Scrape Videos by Keyword, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no YouTube Search login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

resultType
title
channelTitle
viewCount
publishedTime
duration
url
query
videoId
channelId
playlistId
viewCountText
subscriberCount
subscriberCountText

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/youtube-search-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install apify-youtube-search-scraper

const scrape = require("apify-youtube-search-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install youtube-search-scraper

from youtube_search_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`searchQueries`	array	Search queries
`type`	string	Result type
`sortBy`	string	Sort by
`uploadDate`	string	Upload date
`duration`	string	Duration
`country`	string	Country
`language`	string	Language
`maxResultsPerQuery`	integer	Max results per query
`maxResults`	integer	Max results (all queries)

Common use cases

Build a fresh YouTube Search dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed YouTube Search records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date YouTube Search data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.