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YouTube Scraper API

Scrape YouTube comments and profies. Collect YouTube data such as: comment_id, comment_text, likes, replies,  URL, handle, and much more. Maintain full control, flexibility, and scale without worrying about infrastructure, proxy servers, or getting blocked.

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Detecting data structures and patterns to ensure efficient, targeted extraction of data.

Bulk Request Handling

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Data Parsing

Efficiently converts raw HTML into structured data, easing data integration and analysis.

Data validation

Ensure data reliability and save time on manual checks and preprocessing.

CODE EXAMPLES

Easily scrape YouTube data without worrying about being blocked.

Input
JSON 
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '[{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU"},{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09839DpTctU"}]' "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/trigger?dataset_id=gd_lk9q0ew71spt1mxywf&format=json&uncompressed_webhook=true"
Output
JSON 
[
  {
    "timestamp": "2024-12-06",
    "comment_id": "Ugxy3Lwd8dJfhlrDA0B4AaABAg",
    "comment_text": "Comment for the algorithm. Tour content deserves more eyes on it. You\u0027re my favorite history guy on YouTube.",
    "likes": 2,
    "replies": 1,
    "username": "@He***ksf***",
    "username_md5": "8c7bdadf6dd5dd5837bb52facf4ec7d8",
    "user_channel": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Heidiksf1"
  },
  {
    "timestamp": "2024-12-06",
    "comment_id": "UgxDd3YVyCLZqFC8L654AaABAg",
    "comment_text": "Proud York resident 🎉",
    "likes": 2,
    "replies": 1,
    "username": "@mr***ito***5",
    "username_md5": "af2d90a7df48c99d01115ac9b529a0bd",
    "user_channel": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@mr.briton365"
  }
]
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Put your scraping on auto-pilot using production-ready APIs, saving resources and reducing maintenance.

Unlimited Scalability

Effortlessly scale your scraping projects to meet data demands, maintaining optimal performance.

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API for Seamless YouTube Data Access

Comprehensive, Scalable, and Compliant YouTube Data Extraction

FLEXIBLE

Tailored to your workflow

Get structured data in JSON, NDJSON, or CSV files through Webhook or API delivery.

SCALABLE

Built-in infrastructure and unblocking

Get maximum control and flexibility without maintaining proxy and unblocking infrastructure. Easily scrape data from any geo-location while avoiding CAPTCHAs and blocks.

STABLE

Battle-proven infrastructure

Bright Data’s platform powers over 20,000+ companies worldwide, offering peace of mind with 99.99% uptime, access to 72M+ real user IPs covering 195 countries.

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Industry leading compliance

Our privacy practices comply with data protection laws, including the EU data protection regulatory framework, GDPR, and CCPA – respecting requests to exercise privacy rights and more.

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Scraped data is ethically obtained and compliant with all privacy laws.

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A dedicated team of data professionals is here to help.

Complete Data Coverage

Access 72 million+ global IPs to scrape data from any website.

Unmatched Data Quality

Advanced technologies and validation methods for quality data.

Powerful Infrastructure

Scrape high-volume data without getting blocked.

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YouTube Scraper FAQs

Proxies are important for scraping YouTube because it allows the scraper to remain anonymous, avoid IP blocking, access geo-restricted content, and improve scraping speed.

Having an unblocking solution when scraping YouTube is important because many websites have anti-scraping measures that block the scraper’s IP address or require CAPTCHA solving. The unblocking solution implemented within Bright Data’s web scraping solutions are designed to bypass these obstacles and continue gathering data without interruption.

When scraping YouTube , you may only scrape publicly available data. Due to our commitment to privacy laws, we do not allow scraping behind log-ins.

Our privacy practices comply with data protection laws, including the EU data protection regulatory framework, GDPR, and CCPA – respecting requests to exercise privacy rights and more.