GET youtube.com HTTP 2002.4 s3.6 KB$0.000069 captured Aug 7, 2026
youtube.com, as data
One API turns any youtube.com page into markdown, structured JSON, its link graph or a screenshot, and crawls the whole site the same way. The panel shows the real response we captured.
- Render mode
- Plain HTTP, no browser needed
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 2.4 s
- Page size
- 3.6 KB of markdown, 24 lines
- Fields
- Video title, Channel name, View count, Like count and 4 more
- Captured
- Aug 7, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This youtube.com page cost $0.000069 to fetch.
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Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
2.4 s · $0.000069Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
Rendered capture
Real Chromium, full-page PNG. The same call also returns the rendered HTML.
- Rendering
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Full SPA rendering
Renders YouTube's React interface in full, including lazy-loaded comments, recommendations, and infinite scroll.
- Scale
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Channel-level scraping
Process entire channels, playlists, and search results with automatic pagination and scroll.
- Data
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Rich video metadata
Structured JSON with video stats, channel info, comments, transcripts, and engagement metrics.
The call behind the panel
This request produced the response above. Paste it with your key and you get the same bytes.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFgquLnL59akA2PflFpeQG9L01VFg90wS", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFgquLnL59akA2PflFpeQG9L01VFg90wS", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFgquLnL59akA2PflFpeQG9L01VFg90wS", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What youtube.com costs
Multiplied from the measured 3.6 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
1 GB of transfer costs $1, plus $0.001 per CPU minute, and failed requests cost $0. Crawling daily? The Unlimited plan is a flat monthly rate.
What teams build with youtube.com data
Content Research
Analyze top-performing video titles, descriptions, and tags to optimize your own YouTube content strategy.
Influencer Analytics
Track channel growth, upload frequency, view-to-subscriber ratios, and engagement trends for creator partnerships.
Competitor Monitoring
Monitor competitor channels for new uploads, view velocity, and audience engagement patterns.
Trend Detection
Track trending videos, rising channels, and popular topics across categories and regions.
Common questions
Can I scrape YouTube comments?
Yes. Spider renders the full video page and scrolls the comment section to extract comment text, authors, likes, timestamps, and reply threads.
Does Spider extract YouTube video transcripts?
Spider can access auto-generated and manually uploaded captions/transcripts when available on public videos.
What YouTube data can I extract?
Video titles, descriptions, view counts, likes, upload dates, durations, channel names, subscriber counts, comments, and playlist data.
Can I scrape YouTube search results?
Yes. Spider renders YouTube search pages and extracts video results, channels, and playlists for any search query.
How does Spider handle YouTube infinite scroll?
Spider programmatically scrolls the page in a real Chrome browser, waiting for new content to load before extracting results.
Point this at the rest of youtube.com.
The capture above took 2.4 s and cost $0.000069. The same call takes any URL on youtube.com.