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● High-Throughput YouTube Scraper Gateway

Scrape YouTube data
without IP bans or bot traps.

Retire your fragile Puppeteer scripts, residential proxy rotation pools, and yt-dlp workers. Extract transcripts, comments, and channels through an enterprise REST API with 99.9% uptime.

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Datacenter ASN Blocks

YouTube immediately blacklists requests from AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Hetzner IPs with HTTP 429 and bot challenges.

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Expensive Proxy Bandwidth

Residential proxy pools cost $5 to $15 per GB. Scraping video pages and heavy JavaScript assets burns budgets fast.

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Brittle DOM Selectors

YouTube changes frontend polymer DOM tags and JavaScript bundles weekly, breaking HTML scrapers and regular expression hacks.

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High Server Memory Usage

Running headless Chrome instances (Puppeteer / Playwright) consumes 300MB+ RAM per concurrent tab, crippling server capacity.

Zero Maintenance Scraping

Clean JSON Output, Zero DOM Parsing

Stop debugging broken CSS selectors. Every endpoint returns normalized, type-safe JSON with timestamps, like counts, and continuation tokens.

curl -s -X GET "https://api.youtubeapi.io/v1/youtube/comments?video_id=dQw4w9WgXcQ&sort_by=top&limit=50" \
  -H "x-api-key: yt_live_your_api_key"
Targeted Endpoints

Everything You Need to Scrape from YouTube

GET /v1/youtube/transcript

Timed Subtitles & Transcripts

Extract milliseconds timestamps and pre-merged full text for LLM summarization. From $1.00/1K transcripts.

GET /v1/youtube/comments

Top & Newest Comments

Scrape user sentiment, reply threads, and author metadata with cursor pagination. From $0.10/1K comments.

GET /v1/youtube/search

Keyword & Topic Monitoring

Search YouTube videos and Shorts by relevance, date, or view count with continuous cursor paging. From $0.10/1K items.

Switch from brittle scrapers to reliable API

Save hundreds of engineering hours spent repairing broken selectors and proxy rotations.