Social & Creator Platforms13 active endpointsapiKey

YouTube scraping API

Build creator intelligence and video research workflows without maintaining YouTube scrapers.

Collect YouTube video, channel, playlist, search, and transcript data through documented Crawlora API endpoints.

Endpoint families

6

Documented params

47

Examples

13

Live catalog snapshot

YouTube coverage

Active endpoints

13

Methods

GET

Required params

26

Schema refs

13

Channel4
Transcript2
Captions1
Comments1
{
  "platform": "YouTube",
  "endpoint": "youtube-captions",
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/youtube/captions/{id}",
  "auth": "apiKey"
}

Use cases

Workflows that fit YouTube

Collect YouTube video, channel, playlist, search, and transcript data through documented Crawlora API endpoints.

Video search monitoring

Use YouTube endpoints to turn video search monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.

Creator and channel research

Use YouTube endpoints to turn creator and channel research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.

Playlist and transcript extraction

Use YouTube endpoints to turn playlist and transcript extraction into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.

Coverage map

Know what the API can collect before integrating

These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.

4 endpoints

Channel

/youtube/channel/{id}/playlists

GETapiKey
2 endpoints

Transcript

/youtube/transcript/{id}

GETapiKey
1 endpoints

Captions

/youtube/captions/{id}

GETapiKey
1 endpoints

Comments

/youtube/comments/{id}

GETapiKey
1 endpoints

Playlist

/youtube/playlist/{id}

GETapiKey
1 endpoints

Profile

/youtube/profile/{id}

GETapiKey

Featured endpoints

YouTube API endpoints

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GETapiKeyexample
/youtube/captions/{id}
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Retrieve auto-generated or human captions

Returns the caption cues for a specific YouTube video.

id:pathlang:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/youtube/channel/{id}/playlists
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Retrieve the playlists tab for a YouTube channel

Returns normalized playlist items from a channel's Playlists tab and an optional continuation token.

id:pathcontinuation_token:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/youtube/channel/{id}/search
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Search within a YouTube channel

Returns normalized video search items scoped to a specific channel, including the resolved top-level `query`.

id:pathq:querycontinuation_token:query+1 more
GETapiKeyexample
/youtube/channel/{id}/shorts
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Retrieve the shorts tab for a YouTube channel

Returns normalized short-form video entries from a channel's Shorts tab.

id:pathx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/youtube/channel/{id}/videos
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Retrieve the videos tab for a YouTube channel

Returns normalized video items from a channel's Videos tab and an optional continuation token.

id:pathcontinuation_token:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/youtube/comments/{id}
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Retrieve video comments (top-level & replies)

Returns a page of comments for a specific YouTube video.

id:pathcontinuation_token:queryx-api-key:header

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Test YouTube endpoints against the same catalog used by Docs.