YouTube scrapers compared
Which YouTube scraper should you use? We rank 1981 ready-made tools by how many people actually used them and how often their runs succeeded in the last 30 days, from official Apify Store statistics updated daily.
Quick answer
Short answer (Apify Store data, 2026-10-25): the most used YouTube scraper is YouTube Scraper — 15,490 users in the last 30 days, 99.1% of runs succeeded, listed at $4.00 per 1,000 billed “video” events. Most reliable with 300+ runs: YouTube Thumbnail Downloader (100.0%).
- Most used — YouTube Scraper: 15,490 users in 30 days, 99.1% of runs succeeded, Selected billing event: video (
result); $4.00 per 1,000 selected events; run start: unavailable (not fully recorded); 4 additional listed charge events · billing evidence (listed rates only). - Most reliable (300+ runs) — YouTube Thumbnail Downloader: 238 users in 30 days, 100.0% of runs succeeded, Selected billing event: dataset items (
apify-default-dataset-item); $10.00 per 1,000 selected events; run start: <$0.001; 0 additional listed charge events · billing evidence (listed rates only).
At a glance: 1981 tools; 60 of 60 displayed tools have recorded 30-day run completion (20+ public runs); the current usage pick accounts for 27% of all reported users. Dataset file date: 2026-10-25; individual observation dates vary or are unknown.
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| Tool | Users 30d | Observed run completion 30d | Runs 30d | USD / 1,000 primary events | USD / run start | Review count (rating shown) | Last run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube Scraper streamers/youtube-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 15,490 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.1% | 2,758,665 | $4.00Selected event: Video (result)4 additional listed charge eventsEach video written to the dataset.
| Unavailable | 198 reviews · rating 4.8 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Scraper API johnvc/YoutubeTranscripts Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 3,924 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 188,112 | $0.010Selected event: Dataset item stored (apify-default-dataset-item)2 additional listed charge eventsPlatform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.
| <$0.001 | 11 reviews · rating 4.8 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video Transcript starvibe/youtube-video-transcript Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 3,915 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 422,357 | $5.00 | Unavailable | 23 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Comments Scraper streamers/youtube-comments-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 3,371 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.5% | 99,613 | $2.00Selected event: Comment (result)Event detailsCost per comment returned. | Unavailable | 42 reviews · rating 4.9 | 2026-10-24 |
| Fast YouTube Channel Scraper streamers/youtube-channel-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 3,173 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.3% | 1,718,501 | $1.30Selected event: video (result)Event detailsSingle video in the default dataset. | Unavailable | 41 reviews · rating 4.7 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Transcript Scraper pintostudio/youtube-transcript-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 2,680 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 82.2% | 510,886 | $10.00 | Unavailable | 49 reviews · rating 3.7 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Shorts Scraper streamers/youtube-shorts-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 2,252 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.5% | 86,576 | $4.00Selected event: Short (result)1 additional listed charge eventsEach short written to the dataset.
| Unavailable | 22 reviews · rating 4.4 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Channel Video Scraper grow_media/youtube-channel-video-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 1,516 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 74,989 | $1.00 | <$0.001 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video Downloader streamers/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 1,362 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 94.0% | 275,651 | $6.00Selected event: Video download of 1MB (downloadMb)1 additional listed charge eventsEach 1 MB downloaded.
| Unavailable | 28 reviews · rating 4.3 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Transcript Scraper - $0.7 per 1k supreme_coder/youtube-transcript-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 1,122 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 96.2% | 120,296 | $1.00 | <$0.001 | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Transcripts karamelo/youtube-transcripts Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 924 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 62,186 | $7.00 | Unavailable | 15 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Scraper Pro (Captions + AI Fallback) codepoetry/youtube-transcript-ai-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 745 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.1% | 31,612 | $1.00Selected event: Transcript Extracted (transcript_scraped)1 additional listed charge eventsCharged per video where a transcript was successfully retrieved. Not charged for failed or skipped videos.
| $0.003 | 1 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-25 |
| YouTube Comments Scraper API - Extract Video Comments Fast apidojo/youtube-comments-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 732 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 95,176 | $0.50Selected event: Dataset Item (dataset-item)1 additional listed charge eventsCharged per comment returned in results
| Unavailable | 12 reviews · rating 4.8 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Search Scraper ($0.25/1000 results) api-ninja/youtube-search-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 729 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 37,435 | $2.50 | $0.010 | 38 reviews · rating 4.9 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Scraper (Pay Per Result) apidojo/youtube-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 · alternatives | 656 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 87.1% | 207,050 | $0.50 | Unavailable | 21 reviews · rating 3.3 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Search Api grow_media/youtube-search-api Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 652 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.8% | 42,379 | $1.00 | <$0.001 | 4 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Best Youtube Transcripts Scraper scrape-creators/best-youtube-transcripts-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 642 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 95.1% | 87,755 | $1.00 | Unavailable | 13 reviews · rating 4.5 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video Downloader - MP4 & MP3 marielise.dev/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 611 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 54,530 | $0.010Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)8 additional listed charge eventsSingle result in the default dataset.
| <$0.001 | 9 reviews · rating 4.6 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Shorts API johnvc/youtube-shorts-api Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 577 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 91.6% | 4,132 | $0.010Selected event: Dataset item stored (apify-default-dataset-item)2 additional listed charge eventsPlatform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.
| <$0.001 | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Fast YouTube Channel Scraper API | Profiles, Subs & Stats apidojo/youtube-channel-information-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 567 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.8% | 22,462 | $0.50Selected event: Dataset Item (dataset-item)2 additional listed charge eventsCharged per channel returned in results
| Unavailable | 8 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video, Shorts, Audio & Transcript Downloader datapipe/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 482 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 96.6% | 7,215 | $0.010Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)2 additional listed charge eventsSingle result in the default dataset.
| <$0.001 | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Video Downloader - No Platform Costs! No Proxy Costs! epctex/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 464 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.6% | 79,535 | $0.15Selected event: 360p one second (yt-download-360p)5 additional listed charge events360p video price per second
| Unavailable | 27 reviews · rating 2.2 | 2026-10-24 |
| Traffic Generator (Youtube, Web, Etsy, Behance and many more!) epctex/traffic-generator Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 398 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 47.0% | 36,976 | $0.90 | <$0.001 | 25 reviews · rating 4.3 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Ninja ⚡️🥷⚡ topaz_sharingan/Youtube-Transcript-Scraper-1 Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 340 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 41,228 | $10.00 | Unavailable | 27 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Channel & Video Scraper eiv/youtube-channel-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 325 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 83.5% | 1,363 | $4.00Selected event: Channel scrape (channel-scraped)1 additional listed charge eventsCharged once per channel successfully profiled, covering the handle lookup and the channel header. Handles that do not resolve, and channels that are terminated or region-blocked, are never charged. A handle and its UC id are recognised as the same channel and charged once.
| $0.005 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Search Scraper - Videos & Shorts by Keyword delicious_zebu/youtube-video-scraper-by-keyword Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 276 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.5% | 5,718 | $1.20 | <$0.001 | 30 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Bulk Scraper - Channel and Playlist dami_studio/youtube-transcript-bulk-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 240 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.7% | 3,716 | $0.40Selected event: Transcript (transcript-scraped)Event detailsOne video transcript delivered as a dataset row. Videos with no captions, private or deleted videos, and channel or playlist listing are never charged. | <$0.001 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Thumbnail Downloader moving_beacon-owner1/my-actor-73 Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 238 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 583 | $10.00 | <$0.001 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Scraper seemuapps/youtube-transcript-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 234 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 97.2% | 4,438 | UnavailableBilling unit unavailable.1 additional listed charge eventsEvent description unavailable.
| <$0.001 | 1 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Scraper - Subtitles & Timestamps scrapersdelight/youtube-transcript-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 222 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.8% | 2,754 | $0.80Selected event: Per video transcript returned (transcript-scraped)Event detailsCharged once for each video row delivered: the transcript as plain text and as timestamped segments, its language and whether it is auto-generated, every other caption language the video offers, plus the video's title, channel, duration, views, likes, publish date, category, description, keywords and thumbnail. Videos are deduplicated across playlists, channels and searches before billing, so the same video is never charged twice in one run. | Unavailable | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Comments Scraper supreme_coder/youtube-comment-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 192 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 5,240 | $0.25 | <$0.001 | 3 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Channel Search Scraper maximedupre/youtube-channel-search-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 185 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 88.3% | 11,622 | $1.00Selected event: Channel (youtube-channel-search-result)Event detailsOne eligible public channel saved to your dataset. | Unavailable | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video Downloader api-ninja/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 178 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 97.1% | 4,907 | $80.00Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)1 additional listed charge eventsSingle result in the default dataset.
| $0.050 | 13 reviews · rating 4.9 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Audio Downloader utils/youtube-link Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 174 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 94.2% | 8,317 | $5.00Selected event: Audio Failed (AUDIO_FAILED)Event detailsDownload failed or input invalid — work done, no file delivered | Unavailable | 1 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube to MP3 Audio Downloader lurkapi/youtube-to-mp3-audio-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 159 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 94.6% | 3,307 | $2.00Selected event: Minute Downloaded (minute-downloaded)Event detailsCharged per minute of audio downloaded | <$0.001 | 1 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video Downloader — MP4/MP3, Subtitles, Bulk memo23/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 152 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 80.6% | 3,971 | $30.00Selected event: Video download 720p (video-download-hd)6 additional listed charge eventsOne successful 720p MP4 download. Failed downloads are never charged.
| $0.020 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-25 |
| Youtube Video Details Scraper thenetaji/youtube-video-details-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 132 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.3% | 111,986 | $0.95 | <$0.001 | 1 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Transcript Scraper topaz_sharingan/Youtube-Transcript-Scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 125 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 46,833 | $5.00 | $0.010 | 14 reviews · rating 4.9 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Search Scraper - Videos by Keyword, Date & Duration seemuapps/youtube-search-scraper Carried forward · Observed: 2026-10-23 | 120 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.8% | 462 | $3.00Selected event: Video scraped (video-result)Event detailsCharged once per YouTube video returned, including engagement counts, duration, tags and channel details. | <$0.001 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-22 |
| Youtube Channel Scraper grow_media/youtube-channel-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 114 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 38,269 | $1.00 | <$0.001 | 11 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube Shorts Transcriber tictechid/anoxvanzi-Transcriber Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 109 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 23,672 | $1.80Selected event: Seconds of Video Transcribed (transcription-second)1 additional listed charge eventsCharged per second of video length, rounded to the nearest second. Example: a 10-minute video = 600 seconds.
| Unavailable | 10 reviews · rating 4.1 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Download API: Video and Audio (MP4, MP3, M4A) johnvc/youtube-download-api Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 88 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 96.9% | 4,049 | $0.010Selected event: Dataset item stored (apify-default-dataset-item)6 additional listed charge eventsPlatform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.
| <$0.001 | 3 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Channel Scraper ($0.4/1000 results) api-ninja/youtube-channel-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 82 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 5,062 | $5.00 | $0.010 | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Scraper automation-lab/youtube-transcript Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 82 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.3% | 10,081 | $3.00Selected event: Transcript extracted (transcript)1 additional listed charge eventsCost per YouTube video transcript successfully extracted
| $0.003 | 1 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Comments Scraper solidcode/youtube-comments-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 81 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.7% | 6,085 | $0.35 | <$0.001 | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Channel Videos & Stats Scraper lurkapi/youtube-channel-videos-stats-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 79 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.7% | 5,441 | $1.00Selected event: Video Scraped (video-scraped)1 additional listed charge eventsCharged for each video returned in the output
| <$0.001 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Channel Scraper gentle_cloud/youtube-user-channel-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 76 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 92.4% | 5,414 | $0.50 | Unavailable | 3 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Scraper api-ninja/youtube-transcript-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 74 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.0% | 194 | $15.00 | $0.010 | 5 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Transcript dz_omar/youtube-transcript-metadata-extractor Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 73 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.4% | 4,212 | $15.00Selected event: Basic Video Metadata (metadata-item)Event detailsCharge per successfully scraped video. Includes transcripts, title, views, likes, channel info, and thumbnail URL. | $0.009 | 15 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Comments Scraper ($0.40/1000 results) api-ninja/youtube-comments-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 73 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 95.3% | 548 | $4.00 | $0.010 | 8 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Fast YouTube Scraper API - Extract Videos, Channels, Playlists apidojo/youtube-scraper-api Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 71 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.9% | 17,805 | $0.50Selected event: YouTube Video Item (dataset-item)7 additional listed charge eventsCharged for each video extracted beyond the free videos included per query.
| Unavailable | 6 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Youtube Video/Shorts Details Scraper Pro - Fast beyondops/youtube-metadata-scraper-pro-v2 Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 70 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 91.5% | 4,083 | $0.010 | <$0.001 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Shorts Scraper makework36/youtube-shorts-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 68 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 96.3% | 405 | $3.00 | <$0.001 | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Video Frame Extractor - YouTube, TikTok & MP4 to Images seemuapps/video-frame-extractor Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 67 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 90.9% | 1,899 | $10.00Selected event: Video processed (video-processed)3 additional listed charge eventsEach video opened and processed.
| Unavailable | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Search & Video Metrics [Only $0.9💰] Scraper memo23/youtube-search-results-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 65 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.8% | 495 | $0.90Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)3 additional listed charge eventsSingle result in the default dataset.
| $0.007 | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| Search Similar YouTube Channels by Content, Not Keywords dataovercoffee/youtube-channel-lookalike-finder Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 64 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 98.5% | 406 | $120.00 | Unavailable | 12 reviews · rating 3.8 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video Downloader - MP4, Audio & Subtitles dami_studio/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 64 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 99.5% | 10,253 | $5.00Selected event: Megabyte downloaded (megabyte-downloaded)Event detailsEach 1 MB of media actually delivered. Failed or skipped downloads are not charged. | $0.004 | 2 reviews · rating 5.0 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Transcript Scraper x402farm/youtube-transcript-scraper Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 61 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 100.0% | 317 | $4.00Selected event: Minute of audio transcribed (audio-minute)Event detailsCharged per minute of audio actually transcribed, rounded up. | Unavailable | 0 reviews · rating 0.0 | 2026-10-23 |
| Youtube Channel Scraper newbs/Youtube-Channel Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 55 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 93.3% | 344 | $0.50Selected event: Direct video result (video-result)1 additional listed charge eventsOne successful video whose extraction and source collection did not use proxy. Includes metadata, channel information, links and available captions. Failed and partial rows are free. Charged instead of the proxy-assisted event.
| Unavailable | 8 reviews · rating 4.3 | 2026-10-24 |
| YouTube Video Downloader thenetaji/youtube-video-downloader Fetched · Observed: 2026-10-25 | 55 Interval crosses a Store-wide count revision on 2026-10-23. | 77.5% | 1,930 | $10.00Selected event: Video (apify-default-dataset-item)2 additional listed charge eventsOne normalized video record saved to the default dataset.
| <$0.001 | 14 reviews · rating 3.7 | 2026-10-24 |
Download the YouTube comparison CSV (60 displayed tools). The source URL (url) is preserved for provenance; vendor_url is the approved buying destination, blank when unavailable. Affiliate vendor links may earn ScraperWatch a commission, disclosed per row in affiliate_disclosure. Includes snapshot_date (the dataset file date, not tool observation), observed_on (blank when unknown), observation_status (fetched, carried_forward or unknown), carried_forward, usage, recorded runs and reviews (blank when unavailable; 0 means recorded zero), success rate (0–1), pricing model (pricing_model), exact selected billing-event key (event), listed USD per 1,000 selected events (per_k), and USD per recorded run start (start). These are listed rates, not a workload quote: event units differ and additional event or platform charges may apply. Unknown model/event, charges and success rates are blank; numeric zero is recorded zero, and FREE identifies an explicit free pricing model.
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How to read this data
Success rate is the share of public runs that finished successfully in the last 30 days. Summed reported actor users: 57,744. Users may overlap across tools; this is not a count of unique people or buyers, or search volume.
Carried forward means retained from an earlier fetch; pricing and usage may have changed, or the listing may be absent from today's fetch. Unknown observation dates remain unknown. Dataset file dates and tool build dates are not tool observation dates.
Most used: YouTube Scraper (15,490 users in 30 days).
Most reliable with 300+ runs: YouTube Thumbnail Downloader (100.0% of 583 runs succeeded).
Current recommendations use only tools fetched in this dataset with a known observation date. Carried-forward and unknown-date records remain in comparisons but cannot be current picks.
Pricing coverage among 60 displayed tools: 59 with a recorded primary-event rate; 1 with an unavailable primary-event rate; 0 with an explicit FREE model. Primary-event rates use the recorded billing units below; different events are not equivalent results.
Success rate is shown only for tools with 20+ runs in 30 days; below 90% is highlighted. Prices use recorded list-tier event amounts (explicit FREE tier when tiered); other plan rates are not inferred. Rates are per 1,000 primary events in the recorded unit named beside each rate; an unavailable billing unit is labeled explicitly. Different billing events do not imply equivalent results. Run-start and additional charges, plus your workload, determine total cost. Unavailable means the snapshot did not provide the value; an explicit FREE model is separate from a zero listed event rate. You are responsible for complying with YouTube's terms and applicable law. How we measure.
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Dataset file date: 2026-10-25; this does not date each tool’s recorded price. See tool observations in the table. Quantities refer to the selected tool’s billing event, not a result count. Changing tools clears both quantities; enter a workload for the new unit.
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