Scrape.ly pricing: YouTube channel video API
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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 videosWe haven't run Scrape.ly through our YouTube channel video API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 184 plans for YouTube channel video APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.052 per 1,000 videos or less.TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 videos. TranscriptAPI's $5 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many videos as TranscriptAPI's rate limit allows.TubeLab's $39 monthly plan (/
Plan: Free one of Scrape.ly's 5 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $19 monthlyStarter$2.55 per 1,000
- $199 monthlyScale$2.21 per 1,000
- $999 monthlyBusiness$2.04 per 1,000
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Call:
POST / Scrape.ly's only call for this APIAPI: YouTube channel video API one of Scrape.ly's 11 APIs
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About this item
- Live. You get the videos from YouTube when you call the API.
- 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
- Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for about 1,470 results. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
- One call. You call
POST /. You sendv2/ actors/ echofield~ youtube-scraper/ run-sync-get-dataset-items maxResultsand one ofsearchQueriesorstartUrls. The call returns the videos of each channel you send. - Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Scrape.ly: YouTube channel video API alternatives
Scrape.ly alternatives: other YouTube channel video API providers by price
The table starts with Scrape.ly's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 videos closest to Scrape.ly's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Scrape.ly, $999 monthly | QuanticData, $79 monthly | Bright Data, top-up | lobstr.io, $20 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, YouTube Search Scraper | DataBlue, $299 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 videos | $2.04 | $1.011 | $1.50 | $2.00 | $2.08 |
| Completeness | 83% | 67% | 83% | 83% | 67% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | pay first | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $999 | $79 | any amount | $20 | $299 |
| Enough for | about 489,705 results a month | 78,125 results a month | as many as you pay for | 10,000 results a month | 143,750 results a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity | anyone, for an organisation, someone authorised to bind it | anyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon | professionals, not consumers | anyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Text
- Media
- Engagement
- Analytics
- Author
- Audience, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 videos | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | result |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 587 other calls |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Scrape public YouTube videos, channels, playlists, hashtags, and search results: titles, views, likes, durations, upload dates, descriptions, and channel details. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | You decide what you collect and for what purpose, and you are solely responsible for Your Content, for having all rights, permissions and legal bases, and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites your runs access. [...] Some Actors find or collect information about people, if you use them you are the controller of the results and must meet your duties to the people concerned. You must not use them to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or benefits, to stalk, harass or expose anyone, or for any other unlawful purpose. [...] If you run Actors that find information about people, you must have a lawful purpose for each run and must not use the results to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or benefits (or for any other purpose that makes them a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar law), to stalk, harass, intimidate, dox or locate anyone against their will, for illegal surveillance, to discriminate, or for unsolicited marketing. [...] You must not use the Services to: 1. break any law, or infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, database, trademark and trade-secret rights, 2. create, store or distribute child sexual abuse material, terrorist content or other illegal content, 3. commit or support fraud, phishing, scams, identity theft or money laundering, 4. send spam or unsolicited bulk messages, or create fake accounts, engagement, reviews or traffic, 5. run malware, ransomware, spyware, backdoors or keyloggers, or any code designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system, 6. carry out denial-of-service attacks, or scan or test systems you are not authorised to test, 7. mine cryptocurrency, or use our resources for purposes unrelated to the Actors you run, 8. engage in a practice prohibited by Article 5 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), such as manipulative or exploitative techniques, social scoring, or building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of facial images, 9. breach sanctions or export control law, 10. probe, scan, attack or overload our infrastructure, escape the run environment, or access other users' data, runs or accounts, 11. avoid or manipulate billing, usage limits, spending caps or rate limits, including by misusing an Actor's charging mechanism, 12. hold more than one free account per person or organisation, or use fake identities or other methods to obtain free or promotional credit, 13. resell, sublicense or provide access to the Services as a service to third parties, except by running Actors to deliver your own products and services, or with our written consent, 14. manipulate Store rankings, ratings, reviews, usage statistics or bookmarks, or post false reviews or issues, 15. impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation, or 16. help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | $5 a month |
| Enough for | about 1,470 results a month |
| Per second | 16.67 |
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| Concurrent | 5 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | maxResults, one of searchQueries or startUrls. Optional: dateFilter, videoType, lengthFilter, isHD, hasSubtitles, hasCC, isLive, isBought, hasLocation, isHDR, oldestPostDate, sortingOrder, sortVideosBy, maxResultsShorts, maxResultStreams, transcriptionAndSubtitle, subtitlesLanguage, subtitlesFormat, preferAutoGeneratedSubtitles, saveSubsToKVS |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v2/actors/echofield~youtube-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity |
The 29 fields the plan's answer can hold
video ID, video URL, video type, title, view count, date, video duration, thumbnail, author name, channel URL, author username, author ID, text, hashtags, like count, comment count, tags, family safe, is unlisted, is live, is upcoming, live start time, author subscribers, author bio, author joined, author videos count, author picture, author banner image, author verified