How to Scrape Youtube Data: Video and Channel Details (Code & No Code)

Introduction

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos.

In this article, you will read about the easiest way to web scrape Youtube data with Page2API.

You will find code examples for Ruby, Python, PHP, NodeJS, cURL, and a No-Code solution that will import Youtube channel videos into Google Sheets.

In this article, we will learn how to:

Scrape Youtube Video Details
Scrape Youtube Channel Details
Export Youtube Channel Videos to Google Sheets

Prerequisites

To start scraping Youtube, you will need the following things:

A Page2API account
A Youtube channel you want to scrape, for example PlanetNoCode
A Youtube video you want to scrape, in our case it will be the video that explains how to scrape data from another website into Bubble.io with Page2API

How to scrape Youtube Video Details

The first thing you need is to open the youtube video we are interested in.

In our case the URL will be:

  
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOQumXj0kg

The page will look like the following one:

From this page, we will scrape the following attributes:

Title
Likes
Views
Uploaded
Channel name
Channel URL
Channel subsccribers

Let's define the selectors for each attribute.

Youtube Video Details selectors

  
    /* Title: */
    meta[name=title]

    /* Likes: */
    #segmented-like-button span[role=text]

    /* Views: */
    .ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(1)

    /* Uploaded: */
    .ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(3)

    /* Channel name: */
    .ytd-channel-name a

    /* Channel URL: */
    .ytd-channel-name a

    /* Channel subscribers: */
    #owner-sub-count

The payload for our scraping request will be:

  
    {
      "api_key": "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOQumXj0kg",
      "real_browser": true,
      "premium_proxy": "us",
      "wait_for": "#segmented-like-button",
      "parse": {
        "title": "meta[name=title] >> content",
        "likes": "#segmented-like-button span[role=text] >> text",
        "views": ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
        "uploaded": ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(3) >> text",
        "channel_name": ".ytd-channel-name a >> text",
        "channel_url": ".ytd-channel-name a >> href",
        "channel_subscribers": "#owner-sub-count >> text"
      }
    }

Running the scraping request

      
    require 'rest_client'
    require 'json'

    api_url = "https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape"
    payload = {
      api_key: "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOQumXj0kg",
      real_browser: true,
      premium_proxy: "us",
      wait_for: "#segmented-like-button",
      parse: {
        title: "meta[name=title] >> content",
        likes: "#segmented-like-button span[role=text] >> text",
        views: ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
        uploaded: ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(3) >> text",
        channel_name: ".ytd-channel-name a >> text",
        channel_url: ".ytd-channel-name a >> href",
        channel_subscribers: "#owner-sub-count >> text"
      }
    }

    response = RestClient::Request.execute(
      method: :post,
      payload: payload.to_json,
      url: api_url,
      headers: { "Content-type" => "application/json" },
    ).body

    result = JSON.parse(response)

    print(result)

      
    import requests
    import json

    api_url = 'https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape'
    payload = {
      "api_key": "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOQumXj0kg",
      "real_browser": True,
      "premium_proxy": "us",
      "wait_for": "#segmented-like-button",
      "parse": {
        "title": "meta[name=title] >> content",
        "likes": "#segmented-like-button span[role=text] >> text",
        "views": ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
        "uploaded": ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(3) >> text",
        "channel_name": ".ytd-channel-name a >> text",
        "channel_url": ".ytd-channel-name a >> href",
        "channel_subscribers": "#owner-sub-count >> text"
      }
    }

    headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}
    response = requests.post(api_url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
    result = json.loads(response.text)

    print(result)

      
    <?php

    $api_url = "https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape";
    $payload = [
      "api_key" => "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url" =>  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOQumXj0kg",
      "real_browser" =>  true,
      "premium_proxy" =>  "us",
      "wait_for" =>  "#segmented-like-button",
      "parse" =>  [
        "title" =>  "meta[name=title] >> content",
        "likes" =>  "#segmented-like-button span[role=text] >> text",
        "views" =>  ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
        "uploaded" =>  ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(3) >> text",
        "channel_name" =>  ".ytd-channel-name a >> text",
        "channel_url" =>  ".ytd-channel-name a >> href",
        "channel_subscribers": "#owner-sub-count >> text"
      ]
    ];

    $postdata = json_encode($payload);
    $ch = curl_init($api_url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    echo $result;

    ?>

      
    const axios = require('axios');
    const api_url = "https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape";
    const payload = {
      api_key: "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOQumXj0kg",
      real_browser: true,
      premium_proxy: "us",
      wait_for: "#segmented-like-button",
      parse: {
        title: "meta[name=title] >> content",
        likes: "#segmented-like-button span[role=text] >> text",
        views: ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
        uploaded: ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(3) >> text",
        channel_name: ".ytd-channel-name a >> text",
        channel_url: ".ytd-channel-name a >> href",
        channel_subscribers: "#owner-sub-count >> text"
      }
    };

    axios.post(api_url, payload)
      .then((res) => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(res.data, null, "  "));
      }).catch((err) => {
         console.error(err);
      });

      
    curl -XPOST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{
      "api_key": "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOQumXj0kg",
      "real_browser": true,
      "premium_proxy": "us",
      "wait_for": "#segmented-like-button",
      "parse": {
        "title": "meta[name=title] >> content",
        "likes": "#segmented-like-button span[role=text] >> text",
        "views": ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
        "uploaded": ".ytd-watch-metadata span[dir=auto]:nth-of-type(3) >> text",
        "channel_name": ".ytd-channel-name a >> text",
        "channel_url": ".ytd-channel-name a >> href",
        "channel_subscribers": "#owner-sub-count >> text"
      }
    }' 'https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape' | python3.10 -mjson.tool

The result

  
    {
      "result": {
        "title": "How to Scrape Data From Another Website Into Bubble.io | Bubble Tutorials | Planetnocode.Com",
        "likes": "49",
        "views": "4.3K views",
        "uploaded": "6 months ago",
        "channel_name": "PlanetNoCode",
        "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104",
        "channel_subscribers": "1.04K subscribers"
      } ...
    }

How to scrape Youtube Channel Details

First, we need to open the Youtube and search for the desired channel.

In our case it will be: PlanetNoCode

  
    https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104

The page we see must look similar to the following one:

From this page, we will scrape the following attributes:

Channel Details

Title
Subscribers
Thumbnail

Latest videos

Title
Badge
URL
Views
Uploaded

Channel details selectors

  
    /* Title: */
    #text-container .ytd-channel-name

    /* Subscribers: */
    #subscriber-count

    /* Thumbnail: */
    img#img

Latest videos selectors

  
    /* Parent: */
    #content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer

    /* Title: */
    #video-title

    /* Badge: */
    .badge

    /* URL: */
    a#thumbnail

    /* Views: */
    #metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1)

    /* Uploaded: */
    #metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2)

Now, let's handle the pagination.

To load more videos, we simply need to scroll to the bottom:

  
    document.querySelectorAll("#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer").forEach(e => e.scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'}))

Now let's build the request that will scrape all videos that the Youtube channel page returned.

The following examples will show how to scrape 2 pages of videos from Youtube's channel page.

The payload for our scraping request will be:

  
    {
      "api_key": "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104/videos",
      "real_browser": true,
      "premium_proxy": "us",
      "parse": {
        "title": "#text-container .ytd-channel-name >> text",
        "subscribers": "#subscriber-count >> text",
        "thumbnail": "img#img >> src",
        "latest_videos": [
          {
            "_parent": "#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer",
            "badge": ".badge >> text",
            "title": "#video-title >> text",
            "url": "a#thumbnail >> href",
            "views": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
            "uploaded": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2) >> text"
          }
        ]
      },
      "scenario": [
        { "wait_for": "#text-container .ytd-channel-name" },
        {
          "loop": [
            { "execute_js": "document.querySelectorAll('#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer').forEach(e => e.scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'}))" },
            { "wait": 1 }
          ],
          "iterations": 2
        },
        { "execute": "parse" }
      ]
    }

Code examples

      
    require 'rest_client'
    require 'json'

    api_url = "https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape"
    payload = {
      api_key: "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      url: "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104/videos",
      real_browser: true,
      premium_proxy: "us",
      parse: {
        title: "#text-container .ytd-channel-name >> text",
        subscribers: "#subscriber-count >> text",
        thumbnail: "img#img >> src",
        latest_videos: [
          {
            _parent: "#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer",
            badge: ".badge >> text",
            title: "#video-title >> text",
            url: "a#thumbnail >> href",
            views: "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
            uploaded: "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2) >> text"
          }
        ]
      },
      scenario: [
        { wait_for: "#text-container .ytd-channel-name" },
        {
          loop: [
            { execute_js: "document.querySelectorAll('#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer').forEach(e => e.scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'}))" },
            { wait: 1 }
          ],
          iterations: 2
        },
        { execute: "parse" }
      ]
    }

    response = RestClient::Request.execute(
      method: :post,
      payload: payload.to_json,
      url: api_url,
      headers: { "Content-type" => "application/json" },
    ).body

    result = JSON.parse(response)

    puts(result)

      
    import requests
    import json

    api_url = "https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape"
    payload = {
      "api_key": "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104/videos",
      "real_browser": True,
      "premium_proxy": "us",
      "parse": {
        "title": "#text-container .ytd-channel-name >> text",
        "subscribers": "#subscriber-count >> text",
        "thumbnail": "img#img >> src",
        "latest_videos": [
          {
            "_parent": "#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer",
            "badge": ".badge >> text",
            "title": "#video-title >> text",
            "url": "a#thumbnail >> href",
            "views": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
            "uploaded": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2) >> text"
          }
        ]
      },
      "scenario": [
        { "wait_for": "#text-container .ytd-channel-name" },
        {
          "loop": [
            { "execute_js": "document.querySelectorAll('#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer').forEach(e => e.scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'}))" },
            { "wait": 1 }
          ],
          "iterations": 2
        },
        { "execute": "parse" }
      ]
    }

    headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}
    response = requests.post(api_url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
    result = json.loads(response.text)

    print(result)

      
    <?php

    $api_url = "https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape";
    $payload = [
      "api_key" => "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url" => "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104/videos",
      "real_browser" => true,
      "premium_proxy" => "us",
      "parse" => [
        "title" => "#text-container .ytd-channel-name >> text",
        "subscribers" => "#subscriber-count >> text",
        "thumbnail" => "img#img >> src",
        "latest_videos" => [
          "0" => [
            "_parent" => "#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer",
            "badge" => ".badge >> text",
            "title" => "#video-title >> text",
            "url" => "a#thumbnail >> href",
            "views" => "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
            "uploaded" => "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2) >> text"
          ]
        ]
      ],
      "scenario" => [
        [ "wait_for" => "#text-container .ytd-channel-name" ],
        [
          "loop" => [
            [ "execute_js" => "document.querySelectorAll('#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer').forEach(e => e.scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'}))" ],
            [ "wait" => 1 ]
          ],
          "iterations" => 2
        },
        [ "execute" => "parse" ]
      ]
    ];

    $postdata = json_encode($payload);
    $ch = curl_init($api_url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    echo $result;

    ?>

      
    const axios = require('axios');
    const api_url = "https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape";
    const payload = {
      api_key: "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      url: "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104/videos",
      real_browser: true,
      premium_proxy: "us",
      parse: {
        title: "#text-container .ytd-channel-name >> text",
        subscribers: "#subscriber-count >> text",
        thumbnail: "img#img >> src",
        latest_videos: [
          {
            _parent: "#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer",
            badge: ".badge >> text",
            title: "#video-title >> text",
            url: "a#thumbnail >> href",
            views: "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
            uploaded: "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2) >> text"
          }
        ]
      },
      scenario: [
        { wait_for: "#text-container .ytd-channel-name" },
        {
          loop: [
            { execute_js: "document.querySelectorAll('#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer').forEach(e => e.scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'}))" },
            { wait: 1 }
          ],
          iterations: 2
        },
        { execute: "parse" }
      ]
    };

    axios.post(api_url, payload)
      .then((res) => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(res.data, null, "  "));
      }).catch((err) => {
         console.error(err);
      });

      
    curl -XPOST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{
      "api_key": "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104/videos",
      "real_browser": true,
      "premium_proxy": "us",
      "parse": {
        "title": "#text-container .ytd-channel-name >> text",
        "subscribers": "#subscriber-count >> text",
        "thumbnail": "img#img >> src",
        "latest_videos": [
          {
            "_parent": "#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer",
            "badge": ".badge >> text",
            "title": "#video-title >> text",
            "url": "a#thumbnail >> href",
            "views": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1) >> text",
            "uploaded": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2) >> text"
          }
        ]
      },
      "scenario": [
        { "wait_for": "#text-container .ytd-channel-name" },
        {
          "loop": [
            { "execute_js": "document.querySelectorAll(\"#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer\").forEach(e => e.scrollIntoView({behavior: \"smooth\"}))" },
            { "wait": 1 }
          ],
          "iterations": 2
        },
        { "execute": "parse" }
      ]
    }' 'https://www.page2api.com/api/v1/scrape' | python3.10 -mjson.tool

The result

  
    {
      "result": {
        "title": "PlanetNoCode",
        "subscribers": "1.05K subscribers",
        "thumbnail": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/eZ2I1ah_TfO4Go8oagPCmbwSdplTY6O0663Yjxney_fpBLngPJD6nN3fMrAb_OBMjQABY2vBxg=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
        "latest_videos": [
          {
            "badge": "Bubble Tutorials Library",
            "title": "3 ways to edit calendar events in Bubble.io | Bubble.io Tutorials | Planetnocode.com",
            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RGgw0lSPM0",
            "views": "149 views",
            "uploaded": "2 weeks ago"
          },
          {
            "badge": "Bubble Tutorials Library",
            "title": "Add a calendar to a Bubble.io app | Bubble.io Tutorials | Planetnocode.com",
            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpoUBqUiXkc",
            "views": "212 views",
            "uploaded": "3 weeks ago"
          },
          {
            "badge": "Bubble Tutorials Library",
            "title": "Using split by and database triggers in Bubble.io | Bubble.io Tutorials | Planetnocode.com",
            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XR9YA1n2cQ",
            "views": "199 views",
            "uploaded": "3 weeks ago"
          },
      }, ...
    }

How to export Youtube channel videos to Google Sheets

In order to be able to export the videos to a Google Spreadsheet we will need to slightly modify and simplify our request to receive the data in CSV format instead of JSON.

According to the documentation, we need to add the following parameters to our payload:

  
    "raw": {
      "key": "videos", "format": "csv"
    }

Now our payload will look like:

{ "api_key": "YOUR_PAGE2API_KEY", "raw": { "key": "videos", "format": "csv" }, "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@planetnocode9104/videos", "real_browser": true, "wait_for": "#text-container .ytd-channel-name", "premium_proxy": "us", "parse": { "videos": [ { "_parent": "#content.style-scope.ytd-rich-item-renderer", "badge": ".badge >> text", "title": "#video-title >> text", "url": "a#thumbnail >> href", "views": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(1) >> text", "uploaded": "#metadata-line .inline-metadata-item.style-scope.ytd-video-meta-block:nth-of-type(2) >> text" } ] } }

Now, edit the payload above if needed, and press Encode →

Encode

The URL with encoded payload will be:

  Press 'Encode'

Note: If you are reading this article being logged in - you can copy the link above since it will already have your api_key in the encoded payload.

The final part is adding the IMPORTDATA function, and we are ready to import channel videos into a Google Spreadsheet.

  Press 'Encode'

The result must look like the following one:

Final thoughts

Collecting the data from Youtube manually can be a bit overwhelming and hard to scale.
However, a Web Scraping API can easily help you overcome this challenge and perform Youtube scraping in no time.
With Page2API you can quickly get access to the data you need, and use the time you saved on more important things!

How to Scrape Youtube Data: Video and Channel Details (Code & No Code)

Introduction

Prerequisites

How to scrape Youtube Video Details

How to scrape Youtube Channel Details

How to export Youtube channel videos to Google Sheets

Final thoughts

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