Social

YouTube Social Scraper

Extract video metadata, channel statistics, comments, and playlist data from YouTube pages. Powered by spider-browser .

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youtube.com target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

youtube-social-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.youtube.com/@NASA/videos");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const videos = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("ytd-rich-item-renderer").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("#video-title")?.textContent?.trim();
    const views = el.querySelector("#metadata-line span:first-child")?.textContent?.trim();
    const date = el.querySelector("#metadata-line span:last-child")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("a#thumbnail")?.getAttribute("href");
    if (title) videos.push({ title, views, date, link });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: videos.length, videos: videos.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from youtube.com with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/youtube.com/

Video titleChannelViewsLikesCommentsUpload date

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/youtube.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/youtube.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/youtube.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction