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Youtube Data Scraping API

Fetch, extract, analyze, and integrate real-time public Youtube data at scale. The fastest and most reliable Youtube crawling API.


Youtube Scraper API Features

Here's what makes EnsembleData's Youtube API different from running your own scraper or dealing with flaky third-party tools.

Scrape Youtube data without an account

You don't need a Youtube account to use our API. All endpoints fetch public data, so there's no session management, and no risk of getting your account flagged.

Access followers, comments, hashtags & engagement metrics

Get profiles, follower lists, posts, videos, hashtags, likes, shares, and comments, all returned as clean JSON. Works with Python, JavaScript, PHP, or any language that can make an HTTP request.

Enterprise level data scraper API endpoints

Our Youtube data scraping infrastructure is robust to platform changes, IP blocks, and anti-bot measures. Gain access to public Youtube data for analytics, business intelligence, and research.

Real-time Youtube public data crawl API

Get instant access to trending content, viral hashtags, fresh user profiles, and engagement metrics. Our low-latency Youtube data feed API delivers quick results, great for dashboards, real-time alerts, and trend discovery tools.

Youtube analytics API & actionable insights

The data comes back structured and ready to use. You can build things like influencer trackers, competitor monitors, audience research tools, and AI training pipelines on top of it. There are infinite use cases for it!

Flexible Youtube API for every use case

Whether you're a solo developer or running a large data pipeline, the API fits. And if you need a custom endpoint or specific field, please reach out to us, we've done several adaptations to the API for specific customer needs before.

Use Cases for the Youtube Scraper API

Influencer Marketing

Scrape Influencer Profiles, Posts, Followers, Engagement Rates & Creator Growth

Social Listening

Real-Time Brand Mention Monitoring, Comments & Audience Sentiment Extraction

Brand Monitoring

Track Brand Mentions, Hashtags, Keywords, Trending topics & Reputation Signals Automatically

Talent Agencies

Discover Creators, Build Influencer Databases & Monitor Performance

Social Intelligence

Extract Audience Insights, Trend Data & Platform Analytics at Scale

Competitor Analysis

Benchmark Competitors, Follower Growth & Engagement Metrics

Everything you can extract

Crawl Youtube Data via our API

Here's a breakdown of what you can pull from Youtube using our API, all public data, returned as JSON:

  • User info
  • Video info
  • Author info
  • View count
  • Follower count
  • New Videos
  • Thumbnails
  • Hashtags
  • Shorts
  • Times/dates
  • Short likes

Browse All Youtube API Endpoints

Using our Youtube scraping API, you can pull user profiles, posts, comments, hashtags, music data, follower counts, engagement data, and more.
If you're a developer or working on a data project that needs consistent access to public Youtube data, you're in the right place.

Get complete YouTube channel profiles via API including subscriber growth, view totals, and engagement metrics, everything you need for benchmarking without manual lookup.
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Collect all videos from any channel in one go with our YouTube videos API, useful for content audits, trend tracking, and competitive analysis.
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Get short-form video data at scale with our Shorts API including view counts, like ratios, and comment activity, all through a simple API call.
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Get real-time engagement data for YouTube streams with our live streams API, useful for benchmarking live content and tracking streamer performance.
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Retrieve comment sections in bulk with our YouTube comments API, useful for understanding audience sentiment, tracking feedback, and building research datasets.
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Our music posts API connects audio tracks to the YouTube Shorts they power, useful for music marketers tracking how songs perform in video content.
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Crawl ranked video results and channel data for any search term with our YouTube keyword search API, useful for SEO research and video content strategy.
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Scrape videos, view totals, and engagement signals for any YouTube tag with our hashtag search API, useful for campaign tracking and content discovery.
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EnsembleData Youtube API Documentation

Youtube Unofficial API

Extract public data from Youtube without needing an official API access: perfect for developers, marketers, and researchers seeking alternative data solutions. Our Youtube API docs cover every endpoint: parameters, response fields, and code samples in Python, JavaScript, and more. There's no JS rendering, no captcha solving, and no proxy setup involved, fast and simple to integrate. Our Youtube API covers a wide range of endpoints: user posts and profile statistics for influencer marketing, keyword and hashtag search APIs for social listening and trend tracking, music tracking APIs, and much more, all in one platform.
EnsembleData Youtube Posts API Documentation

Scrape YouTube Channel Data, Videos & Shorts in Real Time

With our Youtube Developer API call you can pull posts, videos, photos, captions, thumbnails, and engagement numbers (likes, shares, views) for any public Youtube account. It's handy whether you're building a dataset, running competitive research, feeding a machine learning pipeline, or just keeping tabs on what's being posted. With a single API call, developers can retrieve full content histories for any public account, no scraping infrastructure to maintain on your end, the API handles it.
EnsembleData Youtube User Info API Documentation

Scrape followers, statistics and more with the Youtube API

Beyond posts, the API gives you account-level data: follower counts, following lists, subscriber numbers, bios, and contact info when it's publicly visible. Useful for tracking how an account grows over time, comparing engagement rates across creators, or building an influencer discovery tool. You get the raw numbers, what you do with them is up to you.
EnsembleData Youtube Hashtag/Keyword Search API Documentation

Youtube Hashtag & Keyword Search API

Search Youtube by hashtag or keyword and get back a list of matching posts, along with all the metadata you'd expect: engagement stats, timestamps, author info, and more. Good for tracking trends, monitoring what people are saying around a topic, or doing keyword research without manually scrolling through the platform. Very useful for media monitoring, social listening, brand monitoring, and competitive analysis.
EnsembleData Youtube Comments API Documentation

Youtube Comment Scraping API

Pull comments from any public Youtube post: text, author info, timestamps, reply counts, likes. Whether you're doing sentiment analysis, training a moderation model, or just want to understand how people are reacting to a piece of content, this endpoint gives you the raw material. Works across posts, videos, and reels depending on the platform.
EnsembleData Youtube Music API Documentation

Youtube Music Scraping API

If you need to work with music data on Youtube, track usage, find which songs are trending in videos, or look up what content is tied to a specific audio, this endpoint covers it. You can search by track, pull posts that use a given sound, and get metadata like artist info and play counts. Handy for music industry teams, marketers, or anyone building tools around audio trends on the platform.
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Youtube API Pricing

Pricing is straightforward, no hidden fees, no surprise overages. There's a free tier to get started, and paid plans scale with your usage. Whether you're a solo developer testing something out or a team running large-scale data jobs, there's a plan that fits. High-volume customers can also reach out about custom arrangements. You always know what you're paying for.

Scale Your Youtube Data Operations

Scaling is just a matter of making more requests, no extra infrastructure on your side.

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Simple REST API integration

One HTTP request returns clean JSON data. No proxies, no headless browsers, no captchas to solve, just fast, reliable data.

Get started with our Python SDK
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Real-time data in under 3 seconds

Every request triggers a live scrape, you receive fresh, up-to-the-second data in under 3 seconds. No caches, no delays.

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Tailored to your needs

Need a custom endpoint or specific data field? Our team works directly with you to adapt the API to your exact use case and data volume.

Frequently Asked Questions

EnsembleData's Youtube data REST API is a scalable, web scraping platform for fetching public Youtube data - including user profiles, posts, comments, hashtags, and engagement metrics, used for business intelligence, research, AI training, and automation. You make an HTTP request, you get back JSON. No browser automation, no captchas, no scraping infrastructure to manage. Only publicly visible data is returned.

Yes! Sign up for a 7-day free trial (no credit card needed) on our dashboard and start scraping Youtube data with our API (no commitments required). Every endpoint has a built-in "Try the API" button so you can test it live before writing a single line of code.

User profiles, follower and following lists, images, captions, posts, videos, URLs, comments, replies, likes, shares, views, hashtag data, keyword search results, and trending content. If it's publicly visible on Youtube, there's a good chance we have an endpoint for it.

We only access publicly available Youtube data. There are no fake accounts, no bypassing authentication, and no scraping of private or restricted content. Everything we collect is public-facing and non-personal.

Yes. The API distinguishes Shorts from long-form videos, so you can track Shorts performance and engagement on their own.

Yes. The keyword search endpoint returns matching public videos with metadata like view counts, channel info, and publish dates, useful for trend tracking and content research.

The comments endpoint paginates through a video's public comments, returning author, text, timestamp, and like count for each one, no browser automation required.

Start Scraping Youtube Data in Minutes

No proxies, no browsers, no account management. Just an API key and clean JSON data, ready to plug into your stack.

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Create an account in seconds, no credit card needed. You'll get an API token right away and can make your first call immediately.

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Questions about pricing, rate limits, custom endpoints, or integration? We're happy to help, just get in touch.

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