YouTube Scraper API – Extract Videos, Comments & Channel Data

The ultimate YouTube API to search videos, extract massive comments, and get real-time channel analytics with ease.

🚀 Features

YouTube Video Search API (Async)

Search YouTube videos by keyword, language, region, duration, upload date, sort by relevance, and views with our robust API.

YouTube Comment Extractor

Extract up to 1,000,000 YouTube comments instantly or in bulk, ideal for sentiment analysis, big data, and automation.

YouTube Channel Analytics API

Get detailed statistics, including subscribers, views, and content data about YouTube channels using just the username.

📦 API Endpoints

YouTube Video Search API (Async)

HTTP Method	Endpoint URL	Endpoint Description
POST	/api/search/videos	Submit YouTube video search (async)
GET	/api/search/result/request_id	Retrieve YouTube search results

YouTube Comment Extractor

HTTP Method	Endpoint URL	Endpoint Description
GET	/api/video/video_id/comments?count=N	Extract instant comments (max 500)
POST	/api/video/video_id/comments	Bulk comments extraction (async, up to 1M)
GET	/api/comments/result/request_id	Retrieve extracted YouTube comments

YouTube Channel Analytics API

HTTP Method	Endpoint URL	Endpoint Description
GET	/api/channel/username	Channel info & analytics by username

💡 API Usage Examples

Video Search — Full API Example

Create YouTube video search API request

curl --request POST   --url https://youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com/api/search/videos   --header 'Content-Type: application/json'   --header 'x-rapidapi-host: youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com'   --header 'x-rapidapi-key: 961f2df57cmshbb7e1b258be746fp102fe8jsn61454cb92cc2'   --data '{"query":"kubernetes tutorial 2025","number_of_results":30,"region":"US","lang":"en","upload":"this_year","duration":"4-20","sort":"views"}'

Sample API response

{
  "request_id": "e1f1cdb1-9a12-4a1c-9a2b-6a0d8b9b1b33",
  "status": "PENDING",
  "message": "Video search request submitted successfully. Use the request_id to check results.",
  "result_endpoint": "/api/search/result/e1f1cdb1-9a12-4a1c-9a2b-6a0d8b9b1b33"
}

Retrieve search result

curl --request GET   --url https://youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com/api/search/result/eab00f11-3109-48df-bebc-b215075bafb9   --header 'x-rapidapi-host: youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com'   --header 'x-rapidapi-key: 961f2df57cmshbb7e1b258be746fp102fe8jsn61454cb92cc2'

When request processing is in progress

{
  "status": "PENDING",
  "progress": "60.00%"
}

When result is ready

{
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "result": [
    {
      "video_id": "TlHvYWVUZyc",
      "title": "Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners [FULL COURSE in 4 Hours]",
      "author": "TechWorld with Nana",
      "username": "TechWorldwithNana",
      "number_of_views": 9300000,
      "video_length": "3:36:55",
      "description": "Grab your free DevOps Roadmap: https://bit.ly/3RUQ7UK Become a DevOps Engineer - full educational program: ... From the video description",
      "published_time": "4 years ago",
      "type": "NORMAL"
    },
    ...
  ],
  "end_page_reached": false
}

Comments Extraction (Sync)

curl -X GET "https://youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com/api/video/VIDEO_ID/comments?count=100" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: YOUR_HOST" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Subscription: BASIC"

Sample API response

{
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "result": [
    {
      "comment_id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
      "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "author": "@YouTube",
      "channel_id": "UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ",
      "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
      "like_count": 104192,
      "published_at": "2025-04-22T19:05:08Z",
      "reply_count": 1000,
      "replies": [
        {
          "comment_id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg.AHE8_QAWJx9AHE9eIiztxR",
          "parent_id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
          "author": "@linganguliguliwatcha",
          "channel_id": "UCjFRISlX-LPxiqViJAE3h6Q",
          "text": "YOUTUBE AND ONE LIKE WOOHAAAAH",
          "like_count": 3782,
          "published_at": "2025-04-22T19:14:32Z"
        }
      ]
    },
     ...
  ],
  "count": 10
}

Comments Extraction (Async)

Initiate async comments extraction

curl --request POST   --url https://youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com/api/video/VIDEO_ID/comments?count=10000   --header 'Content-Type: application/json'   --header 'x-rapidapi-host: youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com'   --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

Sample response (async)

{
  "request_id": "32d2fc3f-9427-4c9b-804e-3817f338a521",
  "status": "PENDING",
  "message": "Comment extraction request submitted successfully. Use the request_id to check results.",
  "result_endpoint": "/api/comments/result/32d2fc3f-9427-4c9b-804e-3817f338a521"
}

Retrieve async comments result

curl --request GET   --url https://youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com/api/comments/result/32d2fc3f-9427-4c9b-804e-3817f338a521   --header 'x-rapidapi-host: youtube-scraper9.p.rapidapi.com'   --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

When request processing is in progress

{
  "status": "PENDING",
  "progress": "60.00%"
}

When result is ready

{
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "result": [
    {
      "comment_id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
      "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "author": "@YouTube",
      "channel_id": "UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmDPdntcQ",
      "text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
      "like_count": 104192,
      "published_at": "2025-04-22T19:05:08Z",
      "reply_count": 1000,
      "replies": []
    },
     ...
  ],
  "count": 10
}

📊 Plans & Limites

Plan	Résultats max/recherche	Commentaires max/requête	Jobs concurrents
BASIC	50	100	1
PRO	100	10 000	3
ULTRA	200	500 000	5
MEGA	500	1 000 000	10

*Quotas mensuels appliqués par RapidAPI.

🔄 Workflow Asynchrone

Soumettre un job → recevoir request_id & result_endpoint
Poller le endpoint résultat jusqu’à COMPLETED
Récupérer les données finales (expire après 24h)

🛠️ Codes d’erreur

Code	Signification
400	Validation ou limite de plan dépassée
401	Header d’abonnement manquant
403	Abonnement ou proxy secret invalide
404	Request ID introuvable ou expiré
429	Limite de débit dépassée
500	Erreur interne serveur

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