YouTube Music Artist Scraper 🎵

Automatically scrape artist information from YouTube Music search results. This actor helps you gather detailed information about music artists, including their names, subscriber counts, channel details, and more.

Features ✨

• 🔍 Search for artists using keywords
• 📊 Get detailed artist information including:
  • Artist name
  • Subscriber count
  • Channel ID
  • Channel URL
  • Profile thumbnails
  • Artist type
• ⚡ Fast and efficient scraping
• 🤖 Uses stealth techniques to avoid detection
• 📅 Includes timestamp for each scraped record
• 🎯 Configurable maximum items limit

Use Cases 💡

• Music industry research and analysis
• Artist discovery and tracking
• Competitive analysis
• Music marketing research
• Database enrichment
• Talent scouting

Input Parameters 📝

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• keywords (Array): List of search terms to find artists
• maxItems (Number): Maximum number of results to scrape per keyword

Tips 💪

• Use specific keywords for better results
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs
• Consider rate limiting for large-scale scraping

Limitations ⚠️

• Results depend on YouTube Music's search algorithm
• Some artists might not have complete information
• Rate limiting may apply for very large searches

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "love"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 70
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "keyword": "love",
4        "data": {
5            "name": "Love",
6            "thumbnails": [
7                {
8                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xSBZrzpGEb69n7bGX6S6liVoWFVM6IO1mpmlkfWmkvhcP53RxvdtuvZ18XeLmL0GiRVoG2AB-zh8ye4S=w60-h60-p-l90-rj",
9                    "width": 60,
10                    "height": 60
11                },
12                {
13                    "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xSBZrzpGEb69n7bGX6S6liVoWFVM6IO1mpmlkfWmkvhcP53RxvdtuvZ18XeLmL0GiRVoG2AB-zh8ye4S=w120-h120-p-l90-rj",
14                    "width": 120,
15                    "height": 120
16                }
17            ],
18            "channelId": "UCEjBSuqvwI9a1p-7PA2YxBg",
19            "subscribers": "8.64K subscribers",
20            "type": "Artist",
21            "channelUrl": "https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCEjBSuqvwI9a1p-7PA2YxBg"
22        },
23        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-09T13:40:52.917Z"
24    },
25    ...
26]

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