# Youtube Ads Realtime Scraper (`saswave/youtube-advertisers-scraper`)

Youtube ads scraper, from a list of youtube video, extract youtube advertisers from youtube ads showing on youtube videos. Extract the list of advertisers with multiple data. Is ad skipable, ad duration, ad CTA, ad description, ad video url, advertiser name, website CTA ..

- **URL**: https://beta-securitybyobscurity.apify.com/saswave/youtube-advertisers-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SASWAVE](https://beta-securitybyobscurity.apify.com/saswave) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 32 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 5 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$29.00/month + usage

To use this Actor, you pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period.
You also pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher Apify subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#rental-actors

# README

### Youtube Advertisers scraper

From a list of youtube video, extract youtube advertisers from youtube ads showing on youtube videos

### Input

- List of youtube video you want to extract ads from
- max number of results per run
- default concurrency is 5 (5 urls will be scrapped at once until reaching the max number of results)

### What are the data i can expect

- ad reference number
- video url
- video title
- video number of views
- video channel name
- video category
- video length in seconds
- is video family safe
- video publication date
- video thumbnail
- advertiser company (name or website domain)
- ad CTA url
- advertiser wesbite domain
- ad length in seconds
- is ad skipable
- number of seconds after you can skip ad
- ad position (for exemple if it is 1st or 2nd out of 2 consecutive ads)
- ad video url

### Output exemple

```json
{
  "ad_ref": "fQMEAR9TRMPuRh7E",
  "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8jByZLvT3M&ab_channel=CNBCTelevision",
  "video_title": "New data shows the labor market may not be as resilient as previously thought: LinkedIn's Kantega",
  "video_viewcount": "3814",
  "video_channel_name": "CNBC Television",
  "video_category": "News & Politics",
  "video_length_seconds": "6673",
  "video_is_family_safe": true,
  "video_publish_date": "2024-08-02T16:13:03-07:00",
  "video_thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O8jByZLvT3M/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "company": "aquasana.com",
  "cta_url": "https://www.aquasana.com/?discountcode=LIVEHEALTHY&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0Kr0m4zZhwMVgOYoBR1pTi_tEAEYASAAEgLKzvD_BwE",
  "domain": "www.aquasana.com",
  "ad_length_seconds": 15,
  "is_ad_skipable": true,
  "ad_skip_after_seconds": 5,
  "ad_position": "1/2",
  "ad_video": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VlLghor6rM"
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `start_urls` (type: `array`):

The list of youtube videos you want to fetch advertisers paying to be seen

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

The higher, the longer the runtime. (We do have concurrency of 5 if more needed, you can create an issue and we will create the possibility to config concurrency number

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

The best option is usually residential proxy. But you can also use your own proxies

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "start_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8jByZLvT3M&ab_channel=CNBCTelevision"
    }
  ],
  "max_results": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "start_urls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8jByZLvT3M&ab_channel=CNBCTelevision"
        }
    ],
    "max_results": 2,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("saswave/youtube-advertisers-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "start_urls": [{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8jByZLvT3M&ab_channel=CNBCTelevision" }],
    "max_results": 2,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("saswave/youtube-advertisers-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "start_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8jByZLvT3M&ab_channel=CNBCTelevision"
    }
  ],
  "max_results": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call saswave/youtube-advertisers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=saswave/youtube-advertisers-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Youtube Ads Realtime Scraper",
        "description": "Youtube ads scraper, from a list of youtube video, extract youtube advertisers from youtube ads showing on youtube videos. Extract the list of advertisers with multiple data. Is ad skipable, ad duration, ad CTA, ad description, ad video url, advertiser name, website CTA ..",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "jX0hyBazj7HHf2zzv"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/saswave~youtube-advertisers-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-saswave-youtube-advertisers-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/saswave~youtube-advertisers-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-saswave-youtube-advertisers-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/saswave~youtube-advertisers-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-saswave-youtube-advertisers-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "start_urls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "start_urls": {
                        "title": "List of youtube videos (tips: provide 4 different url (or more) because we run 4 concurrent scraper at once)",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "The list of youtube videos you want to fetch advertisers paying to be seen",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "max_results": {
                        "title": "Maximum advertisers number per run",
                        "minimum": 2,
                        "maximum": 2000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "The higher, the longer the runtime. (We do have concurrency of 5 if more needed, you can create an issue and we will create the possibility to config concurrency number"
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration highly recommended: residential",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "The best option is usually residential proxy. But you can also use your own proxies"
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
