Youtube Video Scraper by Hashtag

What is YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag?

YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that allows you to extract data from YouTube videos that use a particular hashtag. Using this YouTube hashtag extractor, you will be able to get data on:

How to scrape YouTube with YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag?

YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag is designed to be user-friendly, even for those who have never extracted data from the web before! Here’s how you can use this YouTube Hashtag extractor to get the data you need:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag
3. Add one or more YouTube hashtags to scrape data.
4. Click the “Start” button and wait for the data to be extracted.
5. Download your data in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

🔼Input sample

To run this Actor, just put your desired hashtags in the input tab. For adding more hashtags at once, use the Bulk edit button. See example here:

You can also write the input in JSON:

1{
2    "hashtags": [
3        "ai"
4    ],
5    "maxResults": 10,
6    "scrapeShortsOnly": false
7}

🔽Output sample

The scraped results will be shown as a dataset which you can find in the Storage tab. Note that the output is organized as a table for viewing convenience, but it doesn’t show all the fields:

You can preview all the fields and download the file with the hashtag for YouTube video data in various formats (JSON, CSV, Excel, and more).

Here’s a little JSON example:

1{
2    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dRPNp7mcAMI/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwE1CKgBEF5IVfKriqkDKAgBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG8AEB-AG2CIACgA-KAgwIABABGGUgVyhKMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAdl5PPEqaj0sSmXoQFkGvNsp8pOg",
3    "title": "ARE THEY ROBOTS OR REAL PEOPLE!!😳🤖 #shorts #ai #robot #scary #artificialintelligence",
4    "id": "dRPNp7mcAMI",
5    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRPNp7mcAMI",
6    "viewCount": 42015657,
7    "type": "video",
8    "hashtagCategoryData.categoryInfoText": "5.1M videos • 978K channels"
9  },

How can I use the data extracted from Youtube Video Scraper by Hashtag?

✨ Conducting sentiment analysis

👩‍🔬 Obtaining data for research and social listening experiments

🦠 Analyzing trends, and viral campaigns

🥸 Identifying unverified content and inaccurate information with high public value

📚 Preparing for or analyzing a YouTube marketing campaign

🧛 Doing lead generation research

Integrate YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag and automate your workflow

Last but not least, YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform.

These include:

• Make
• Zapier
• Slack
• Airbyte
• GitHub
• Google Drive
• and much more.

Alternatively, you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag successfully finishes a run.

Scrape any YouTube data you need with dedicated scrapers

If you want to extract specific YouTube data, you can use one of the specialized scrapers below:

Not your cup of tea? Build your own scraper.

YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag doesn’t exactly do what you need?

You can always build your own! Use one of scraper templates in Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript to get started.

Alternatively, you can write it from scratch using our open-source library Crawlee. You can keep the scraper to yourself or make it public by adding it to Apify Store and start making money on it.

Or let us know if you need a custom scraping solution.

Your feedback

We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console.

❓FAQ

How much does it cost to use YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag?

YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag uses the Pay-per-result pricing model, so your costs can be easily calculated: it will cost you $2 to scrape 1,000 results, so $0.002 per item. Apify provides you with $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan, so you can get 2,500 results from YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag for free.

But if you need to extract data regularly, you should get an Apify subscription. We recommend our $49/month Starter plan — that one could get you over 24,500 results from YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag every month.

How can I use YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag with the Apify API?

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

You can use the apify-client NPM package to access the API using Node.js, or the apify-client PyPI package to access the API using Python.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details or click on the API tab for code examples.

Is it legal to scrape YouTube data with YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag?

Our YouTube scrapers, YouTube Video Scraper by Hashtag included, are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They can only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. However, you should be aware that your results might contain personal data.

Personal data is protected by GDPR in the European Union and other laws and regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you’re unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping and ethical scraping.