§ 01
Audience & creator discovery
Build lead and creator-discovery pipelines from YouTube public profiles. Filter by follower count, engagement, and region. The JSON is flat enough to drop into a Postgres column without normalisation.
§ The YouTube hub
YouTube
scraper.
No proxy needed. 12 pre-built endpoints, parsed JSON in seconds.
12 endpoints·From $0.003 per call·Median under 2s
§ One call
Send a handle.
Get back JSON.
The channel scraper takes one input: handle. The response carries every public field YouTube exposes.
Request
cURL
curl https://api.hproxy.com/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/collect/by/handle \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HPROXY_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"handle":"ThePatMcAfeeShow"}'POST // 1 call · $0.0030 · <2s
Response200 OK
{
"channelId": "UCxcTeAKWJca6XyJ37_ZoKIQ",
"channel": "http://www.youtube.com/@ThePatMcAfeeShow",
"name": "The Pat McAfee Show",
"avatar": {
"image": {
"sources": [
{
"url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/….jpg",
"width": 72,
"height": 72
}
]
}
},
"subscriberCount": 2750000,
"subscriberCountText": "2.75M subscribers",
"videoCountText": "9,221 videos",
"viewCountText": "2,170,355,382 views",
"joinedDateText": "Joined Aug 23, 2017",
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow",
"instagram": "https://instagram.com/patmcafeeshow",
"country": "United States"
}What comes backparsed fields
YouTube Channel
youtube_channel
channelIdstring
channelurl
namestring
avatarobject
subscriberCountnumber
subscriberCountTextstring
videoCountTextstring
One real call · one structured record
§ Coverage
What you can
actually pull.
§ 01
Channels
Channel metadata: subscriber count, total views, video count, join date, country, and linked social profiles.
§ 02
Videos
Video metadata: title, description, view and like counts, duration, channel reference, publish date, and the thumbnail URL.
§ 03
Transcripts
AI-fallback transcript of any video — audio-to-text when no caption exists, the published captions otherwise.
§ 04
Search
Keyword and query search results with the matched entities and the engagement metadata behind each one.
§ 05
Comments
Every comment on a post or video — including reply trees, author handle, timestamp, and like count — not just the top-level reactions.
§ 06
Trending
Structured trending objects returned as flat, predictable JSON — ready to drop straight into your database.
§ Every endpoint
The full list.
Prices included.
Every line is a live endpoint. Click through for the input schema, response shape, and the curl recipe.
YouTube Channel
/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/collect/by/handle
Channel profile, subscriber count, total videos, total views, social links.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Channel Videos
/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/videos
Paginated list of videos uploaded by a YouTube channel.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Channel Shorts
/v1/scrape/youtube/channel/shorts
List of short-form videos (Shorts) from a YouTube channel.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Video
/v1/scrape/youtube/video/collect/by/url
Full YouTube video metadata, captions, related videos.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Video Transcript
/v1/scrape/youtube/video/transcript
Captions / subtitles / transcript for a YouTube video.
Premium pricing — every call uses AI or heavy data extraction.
$0.0300
per call
YouTube Search
/v1/scrape/youtube/search/by/keyword
Search YouTube by keyword — videos, channels, playlists, shorts.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Video Comments
/v1/scrape/youtube/video/comments
Top-level comments on a YouTube video.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Trending Shorts
/v1/scrape/youtube/trending/shorts
Trending YouTube Shorts — viral short-form videos.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Hashtag Search
/v1/scrape/youtube/search/by/hashtag
Search YouTube for content under a specific hashtag.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Comment Replies
/v1/scrape/youtube/comment/replies
Replies to a specific YouTube comment thread.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Playlist
/v1/scrape/youtube/playlist/by/id
Every video in a YouTube playlist with metadata.
$0.0030
per call
YouTube Community Post
/v1/scrape/youtube/community/post/by/url
Detail of a YouTube community post — text, images, like count.
$0.0030
per call
§ What people build
One YouTube scraper.
Many shapes of work.
§ 02
Brand & trend monitoring
Track every public post mentioning a brand or keyword across YouTube. Pipe captions into sentiment models and chart engagement over time without writing a single parser.
§ 03
Social listening
The comments endpoint carries the full reply tree, so social-listening models see the whole thread — not just top-level reactions. Real conversation data, structured.
§ 04
Search & hashtag intelligence
Query YouTube by keyword or hashtag and get back the matched entities with their engagement metadata attached. Power competitive research and content-gap analysis.
§ Questions
The honest
answers.
The questions that come up before the first call. If yours isn’t here, the founder reads support email himself — just write in.
Do I need proxies to use the YouTube scraper?
No. Every endpoint runs on our residential pool — fifty million IPs sourced through opt-in partner SDKs. You send an HTTP request with your API key; rotation, retries, and anti-bot handling are ours to worry about.
How does HProxy get past YouTube’s rate limits and bot detection?
Each call is routed through a residential session that matches typical organic traffic patterns. We don’t advertise specifics; what matters is the result — a 99%+ success rate on public-data endpoints in real customer traffic.
What does the JSON response look like?
Every endpoint returns a flat top-level wrapper (platform, scraper, data, creditsUsed, elapsedMs, requestId) with the parsed YouTube entity inside data. See the live example near the top of this page for the exact shape.
Is scraping public YouTube data legal?
Public data scraping (no login, no private content, no PII beyond what youtube.com itself publishes) sits within the boundaries set by hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn and similar US/EU precedents. We don’t serve endpoints that touch authenticated content. You’re responsible for your own use of the data under your local data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
What does each call cost?
From $0.003 per call on the standard endpoints. Endpoints that do heavier upstream work — AI transcripts, posts with media archived to R2 — cost more. The exact per-call price shows on each endpoint row below. One call = one charge, never multiplied by record count.
Can I test before signing up?
Yes — the wallet starts with a $2 deposit that’s refundable for 24 hours. That’s plenty of calls to verify the response shape matches what you’re building across all 12 YouTube endpoints.
How fast are the responses?
Median response time across the YouTube endpoints is under 2 seconds. Heavier endpoints (deep comment threads, cursor-paginated lists) can run 4-8 seconds depending on the page depth requested.
§ Try it
Two dollars,
first run.
Sign in with Google, drop $2 in the wallet, fire your first YouTube call against youtube.com. If it doesn’t do what you need, the balance is refundable for 24 hours.