Video search monitoring
Use YouTube endpoints to turn video search monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Build creator intelligence, video research, transcript, and audience-comment workflows without maintaining YouTube scrapers.
Collect YouTube video, channel, playlist, search, transcript, and comments data through documented Crawlora API endpoints.
Endpoint families
6
Documented params
47
Examples
13
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
13
Methods
GET
Required params
26
Schema refs
13
{
"platform": "YouTube",
"endpoint": "youtube-video",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/youtube/video/{id}",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Showcase proof
Explore structured examples generated from public YouTube videos. See how Crawlora turns transcripts, comments, metadata, topics, and summaries into JSON for creator intelligence, RAG, content research, and monitoring workflows.
Transcript, comment, summary, topic, and metadata records for public AI videos.
Open examplesStructured public podcast and interview examples for searchable video research.
Open examplesFounder, market, and operator video examples for public business intelligence workflows.
Open examplesCreator and audience intelligence examples built from public transcripts, metadata, and comments.
Open examplesOpen the full Crawlora YouTube video intelligence showcase library.
Open examplesUse cases
Collect YouTube video, channel, playlist, search, transcript, and comments data through documented Crawlora API endpoints.
Use YouTube endpoints to turn video search monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use YouTube endpoints to turn creator and channel research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use YouTube endpoints to turn transcript and comments analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Each Crawlora platform API is designed around a specific data surface. Instead of exposing a generic fetch endpoint, Crawlora combines endpoint-specific request logic, managed infrastructure, parsing, normalization, billing, and Playground-tested examples.
Request behavior is tuned for the target platform and endpoint type.
Supported endpoints can use managed proxy routing to improve reliability and reduce infrastructure work.
Dynamic pages can be routed through managed browser instances where JavaScript rendering is required.
Challenge pages and unusable upstream responses are detected and surfaced clearly.
Results are returned as documented JSON instead of raw HTML.
Test the same route from Docs and Playground before production integration.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/youtube/channel/{id}/videos
/youtube/transcript/{id}
/youtube/captions/{id}
/youtube/comments/{id}
/youtube/playlist/{id}
/youtube/profile/{id}
Featured endpoints
/youtube/video/{id}Returns title, description, stats, and captions for a YouTube video ID.
/youtube/transcript/{id}Returns transcript segments for a YouTube video using YouTube's native player captions. Set `format=text`, `format=srt`, or `format=vtt` to receive plain-text output instead of the standard response envelope.
/youtube/comments/{id}Returns a page of comments for a specific YouTube video.
/youtube/searchReturns normalized YouTube search results using YouTube's InnerTube search API. Pass `continuation_token` from a previous response to retrieve the next page. Use `q` as the primary query parameter; `search_query` is accepted as an alias.
/youtube/profile/{id}Returns full profile details for a YouTube channel.
/youtube/playlist/{id}Returns playlist metadata, normalized video items, and an optional continuation token for pagination.
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How to scrape YouTube
YouTube holds transcripts, comments, and channel data that power research and AI pipelines. Crawlora's YouTube endpoints return them as structured JSON — including full transcripts.
A video, a channel, a video's full transcript, or its comment threads.
Pass the video or channel URL/ID to Crawlora's YouTube endpoint.
Receive title, views, likes, channel stats, the full transcript, and comment threads as clean JSON.
Pipe transcripts into LLMs and vector stores, or re-run to track views and new comments.
FAQ
Send a YouTube video or channel URL to Crawlora's YouTube endpoint and get structured JSON — title, views, likes, channel stats, full transcript, and comments — no API quota to manage. Collect public data and respect YouTube's terms.
Yes — Crawlora returns the full transcript for videos that have captions, ideal for RAG and content research. You can also try it instantly with the free YouTube Transcript Extractor at /tools/youtube-transcript-extractor.
Collecting publicly accessible video, transcript, and comment data is generally permissible if you respect YouTube's terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law. This is for public data you're authorized to collect.