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One or more.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "channels": { "title": "📺 Channels", "type": "array", "description": "Channel names, @handles, or channel URLs — pulls all their videos with full data. Great for creator analytics. One or more.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "startUrls": { "title": "🔗 Start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "YouTube video, channel, playlist or search URLs. One or more. (Hashtags go in the Hashtags field below.)", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "hashtags": { "title": "#️⃣ Hashtags", "type": "array", "description": "Hashtags to scrape, like \"lofi\", \"#lofi\" or https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/lofi — the videos on YouTube’s hashtag page (Max items per hashtag). Rows carry `hashtagVideoCount`, the hashtag’s total.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "findCreators": { "title": "🧑‍🎤 Find creators (lead finder)", "type": "array", "description": "Keywords to find YouTube CHANNELS for — one row per channel with country, joined date, total views, subscribers, social links (Instagram/TikTok/X handles), the \"has business email\" flag, emails the creator published publicly, and recent activity. Filters below.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max items", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 20000, "type": "integer", "description": "Max videos per search term, channel tab, playlist or hashtag (and max channels per creator keyword). Channels: this applies to EACH tab you pick, so Videos + Shorts returns up to 2× this per channel.", "default": 10 }, "enrich": { "title": "Full video details", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch each video's full metadata (likes, description, keywords, category). Off = fast search-feed fields only.", "default": true }, "includeDetails": { "title": "Full details (category, tags, exact duration)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Add category, keywords/tags, exact duration in seconds (Shorts included), the exact publish time and family-safe / unlisted flags.", "default": false }, "includeSubtitles": { "title": "Include transcripts / subtitles", "type": "boolean", "description": "Download subtitles and the full transcript text (manual + auto-generated). Adds `transcript`, `subtitles` (SRT by default) and `availableSubtitles` to each video. Pricing: each video that comes back with transcript text adds one transcript event ($0.0015, i.e. $1.50 per 1,000) on top of the video row. Videos without captions (`transcript: null`) add nothing.", "default": false }, "subtitleLanguages": { "title": "Subtitle languages", "type": "array", "description": "Language codes to download, in order of preference (e.g. \"en\", \"es\"). Empty = the video’s main track only: the caption track YouTube’s player turns on (usually the creator’s own captions), else the manual track in the spoken language, else the auto-generated one. Use \"*\" for every track — a TED talk can have 20+. The first manual track in this order becomes `transcript`, otherwise the auto-generated one. `availableSubtitles` always lists every track.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "subtitleFormat": { "title": "Subtitle format", "enum": [ "srt", "vtt", "text", "segments" ], "type": "string", "description": "Format of each entry in `subtitles`. SRT is always included; pick another to add it.", "default": "srt" }, "includeDislikes": { "title": "Include dislikes (estimated)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Add an estimated dislike count via Return YouTube Dislike (3rd-party estimate — YouTube removed public dislikes in 2021).", "default": false }, "maxComments": { "title": "💬 Max comments per video", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 5000, "type": "integer", "description": "How many top comments to pull per video (0 = none). `commentsTruncated` is true on a row whose list stopped early (a page YouTube would not serve, or the run’s deadline).", "default": 0 }, "commentsSortBy": { "title": "Comment order", "enum": [ "top", "newest" ], "type": "string", "description": "Top comments (YouTube's default) or newest first.", "default": "top" }, "maxReplies": { "title": "Max replies per comment", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Also pull up to this many replies for each comment that has them, nested under `replies` (0 = none). The most-replied comments go first, and each video gets at most 20 reply pages (~200 replies in total).", "default": 0 }, "includeVideoInsights": { "title": "Video Intelligence pack", "type": "boolean", "description": "Most-replayed \"viral moments\" (with the words spoken and a timestamped clip link), music credits and sponsor signals (a heuristic: brands, promo codes, affiliate links). Works when YouTube shows a Most-replayed graph.", "default": false }, "includeRelatedVideos": { "title": "Include related videos", "type": "boolean", "description": "With the Video Intelligence pack: add the related videos YouTube shows next to each video.", "default": false }, "dateFilter": { "title": "Upload date", "enum": [ "any", "hour", "today", "week", "month", "year" ], "type": "string", "description": "Only return videos uploaded within this window. Applies to search terms only, not to direct URLs.", "default": "any" }, "sortBy": { "title": "Sorting order", "enum": [ "relevance", "date", "views", "rating" ], "type": "string", "description": "How YouTube should order search results. Applies to search terms only, not to direct URLs.", "default": "relevance" }, "lengthFilter": { "title": "Video length", "enum": [ "any", "under4", "4to20", "over20" ], "type": "string", "description": "Only return videos of this length. Applies to search terms only.", "default": "any" }, "videoFeatures": { "title": "Video features", "type": "array", "description": "Only return videos with ALL of these features. Applies to search terms only.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "hd", "subtitles", "creativeCommons", "3d", "live", "purchased", "4k", "360", "location", "hdr", "vr180" ], "enumTitles": [ "HD", "Subtitles/CC", "Creative Commons", "3D", "Live", "Purchased", "4K", "360°", "Location", "HDR", "VR180" ] }, "default": [] }, "deepSearch": { "title": "Deep search (more results per term)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Keep paging every search term until Max items unique videos are found. Off (default) = the classic depth this actor has always had: a plain search (relevance order, no filters, no Shorts) reads 2 result pages — about 40 videos — whatever Max items says, while sorted or filtered searches page toward Max items. Turn on for large keyword pulls; you are billed per row, so a plain search with a high Max items then returns (and bills) up to that many rows.", "default": false }, "includeShorts": { "title": "Include Shorts", "type": "boolean", "description": "Also collect YouTube Shorts from search results. Off by default: Shorts change which videos a search returns, so existing runs keep the previous long-form-only behaviour unless you turn this on.", "default": false }, "maxShorts": { "title": "Max Shorts", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap how many Shorts (videos 60s or under) to include per search term. Leave empty for no cap; set 0 to exclude Shorts entirely." }, "maxStreams": { "title": "Max live streams", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap how many live streams to include per search term. Leave empty for no cap; set 0 to exclude streams entirely." }, "country": { "title": "Country", "pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter country code YouTube should rank results for (e.g. \"US\", \"IN\", \"KR\").", "default": "US" }, "language": { "title": "Language", "pattern": "^[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(-[A-Za-z0-9]{2,4})?$", "type": "string", "description": "Interface language for search and hashtag results (e.g. \"en\", \"ko\", \"pt-BR\") — keeps original-language titles. Video details stay in English so numbers parse reliably.", "default": "en" }, "channelContent": { "title": "Channel tabs", "type": "array", "description": "Which tabs to scrape for channels: Videos, Shorts and/or Live. Max items applies to each tab.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "videos", "shorts", "streams" ], "enumTitles": [ "Videos", "Shorts", "Live" ] }, "default": [ "videos" ] }, "channelSortBy": { "title": "Channel sort", "enum": [ "newest", "popular", "oldest" ], "type": "string", "description": "Newest first (default), most popular, or oldest first.", "default": "newest" }, "publishedAfter": { "title": "Published after", "type": "string", "description": "Only channel videos published on or after this date — a date (2026-08-01) or a relative age (\"30 days\", \"2 weeks\", \"12 hours\", \"7d\"). A value the actor can’t read stops the run before anything is scraped or charged. Great for daily/weekly monitoring schedules. Older videos are skipped and not charged. With Full video details off, only the channel page’s relative dates (\"2 weeks ago\") are known, so a video is kept only when that date is surely inside the window." }, "includeChannelAbout": { "title": "Add channel About data to videos", "type": "boolean", "description": "Add the channel's country, joined date, total views, links, social handles and public contact info to every video row (one extra request per channel).", "default": false }, "minSubscribers": { "title": "Min subscribers", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Creator finder: skip channels with fewer subscribers." }, "maxSubscribers": { "title": "Max subscribers", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Creator finder: skip channels with more subscribers (find micro-influencers)." }, "creatorCountries": { "title": "Creator countries", "type": "array", "description": "Creator finder: only channels based in these countries (names or 2-letter codes, e.g. \"US\", \"Canada\").", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "activeWithinDays": { "title": "Active within (days)", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Creator finder: only channels that uploaded within this many days." }, "requireContact": { "title": "Only creators with contact info", "type": "boolean", "description": "Creator finder: only channels that publish an email or have a business email on file. Only emails the creator published publicly are returned — never hidden ones.", "default": false }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy for YouTube. RESIDENTIAL is recommended: datacenter IPs hit YouTube bot checks on the video player and watch page.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }, "proxyStrategy": { "title": "Proxy strategy", "enum": [ "configured", "auto" ], "type": "string", "description": "\"configured\" sends every request through the proxy above. \"auto\" sends YouTube's JSON endpoints (search, video pages, comments, channels) through Apify datacenter proxies and only the video player through the proxy above — faster, and it falls back to your proxy automatically if datacenter IPs get blocked.", "default": "configured" }, "errorRowsInDataset": { "title": "Save \"not found\" rows in the dataset (billed)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Off (default): an input or video that returns nothing (unknown channel, no search results, empty playlist, unrecognized URL, private or deleted video) is listed in the ERRORS record of the run's key-value store and in the status message, and is not charged. On: it is also saved in the dataset as a row with `error` and `note`, the way earlier versions did, and each such row is billed as one result. Turn it on only if your integration reads those rows from the dataset.", "default": false }, "_noResidential": { "title": "Run as an account without residential proxies", "type": "boolean", "description": "Internal (canaries): behave exactly like an account without the RESIDENTIAL proxy group.", "default": false } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_UNBLOCKER_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_UNBLOCKER_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }