YouTube scrapers compared

Each video written to the dataset.

• Add-on: Date range for channels (date-filter)
• Add-on: AI description (ai-video-description)
• Add-on: AI summary (ai-video-summary)
• Add-on: Transcript minute (transcribeMinute)

Platform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.

• Video Processed (videoprocessed)
• Extended video metadata (videometadata)

Cost per comment returned.

Single video in the default dataset.

Each short written to the dataset.

• Date filter (date-filter)

Each 1 MB downloaded.

• Add-on: transcript (transcribeMinute)

Charged per video where a transcript was successfully retrieved. Not charged for failed or skipped videos.

• AI Transcription Minute (ai_transcription_min)

Charged per comment returned in results

• Video Query (query-event)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Minute at 720p (minute-720p)
• Minute at 360p (minute-360p)
• Minute at 480p (minute-480p)
• Minute at 1080p (minute-1080p)
• Minute at mp3 (minute-mp3)
• Minute at 1440p (minute-1440p)
• Minute at 2160p (minute-2160p)
• Residential Proxy MegaByte (residential-megabyte)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Video Downloaded (VIDEO_DOWNLOADED)
• Subtitles Downloaded (SUBTITLES_DOWNLOADED)

360p video price per second

• 480p one second (yt-download-480p)
• 720p one second (yt-download-720p)
• 1080p one second (yt-download-1080p)
• 1440p one second (yt-download-1440p)
• 2160p one second (yt-download-2160p)

Charged per channel returned in results

• Keyword Search (keyword-search-event)
• Channel URL Query (single-url-event)

Charged 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.

• Video scrape (video-scraped)

One video transcript delivered as a dataset row. Videos with no captions, private or deleted videos, and channel or playlist listing are never charged.

Event description unavailable.

• Transcript Extracted (transcript-extracted)

Charged 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.

One eligible public channel saved to your dataset.

Single result in the default dataset.

• Persistent Cloud Storage (per MB per Day) (storage_usage)

Charged per minute of audio downloaded

Download failed or input invalid — work done, no file delivered

One successful 720p MP4 download. Failed downloads are never charged.

• Video download 360p/480p (video-download-sd)
• Video download 1080p (video-download-fhd)
• Video download best quality (video-download-best)
• MP3 audio download (audio-download)
• Subtitles (VTT) (subtitles-download)
• Metadata-only item (metadata-item)

Charged once per YouTube video returned, including engagement counts, duration, tags and channel details.

Charged per second of video length, rounded to the nearest second. Example: a 10-minute video = 600 seconds.

• Videos Transcribed (base-pay)

Platform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.

• Audio minute (audio-minute)
• Video minute, SD (video-minute-sd)
• Video minute, HD (video-minute-hd)
• Video minute, Full HD (video-minute-fhd)
• Video minute, 2K and 4K (video-minute-uhd)
• External storage, per MB (external-storage-megabyte)

Cost per YouTube video transcript successfully extracted

• Run start (start)

Charge per successfully scraped video. Includes transcripts, title, views, likes, channel info, and thumbnail URL.

Charged for each video extracted beyond the free videos included per query.

• YouTube Channel Query (query-event)
• YouTube Search Query (search-query)
• YouTube Playlist Query (playlist-query)
• YouTube Trending Query (get-trending-event)
• YouTube Shorts Query (include-shorts-event)
• YouTube Single Video Query (single-item-query)
• YouTube Live Streams Query (include-live-streams-event)

Charged for each video returned in the output

• Video Stats (video-stats)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Additional data (additional-data)
• Video details (watch-depth)
• Video summary (ai-summary)

Platform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.

• Short (result)
• Date filter (date-filter)

Each video opened and processed.

• Frame extracted (frame-extracted)
• Minute scanned (minute-scanned)
• Megabyte downloaded (megabyte-downloaded)

Each 1 MB of media actually delivered. Failed or skipped downloads are not charged.

Charged per minute of audio actually transcribed, rounded up.

Charged once per query for a search, user lookup, or profile base lookup (the resolved profile summary).

• Historical data (history-data)
• Growth data (growth-data)

One 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.

• Proxy-assisted video result (video-result-proxy)