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Old /c/ and /user/ URLs work too.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "videos": { "title": "Videos", "type": "array", "description": "Video URLs or 11-character ids. Accepts watch, youtu.be, /shorts/ and /live/ links. Use this when you want specific videos rather than a whole channel.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs (for chaining)", "type": "array", "description": "Alternative to Channels and Videos, for feeding output from another Actor straight into this one.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "sourceDatasetId": { "title": "Source dataset ID", "type": "string", "description": "Read channel or video identifiers from an existing dataset instead of typing them." }, "sourceDatasetField": { "title": "Source dataset field", "type": "string", "description": "Which field on the source dataset holds the identifier.", "default": "channelUrl" }, "maxVideosPerChannel": { "title": "Max videos per channel", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 5000, "type": "integer", "description": "How many recent uploads to return per channel. YouTube serves 30 per page, so this is your main billing guard. Set 0 to fetch channel statistics only and no videos at all.", "default": 50 }, "includeShorts": { "title": "Include Shorts", "type": "boolean", "description": "Also read the channel's Shorts tab, which YouTube keeps separate from regular uploads. Each returned Short carries isShort: true. A Shorts thumbnail shows no duration and no date, so those come only from \"Exact view counts and dates\"; without it a Short's durationSeconds and publishedAt are null.", "default": false }, "publishedWithinDays": { "title": "Only videos from the last N days", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 3650, "type": "integer", "description": "Keep only recent uploads. Applied after fetching, because YouTube's channel tab has no date filter. 0 keeps everything.", "default": 0 }, "exactVideoStats": { "title": "Exact view counts and publish dates", "type": "boolean", "description": "Resolve every video individually to get its exact view count and an exact publish timestamp. Without this you get YouTube's rounded display text — '1.5M views', '2 weeks ago' — which is cheaper but imprecise. Adds one small request per video.", "default": true }, "includeEngagement": { "title": "Include likes and comment counts", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch each video's like total and comment count. This needs a second, much larger request per video — roughly 25 times the data — so it makes runs slower and more expensive. Comment counts are rounded by YouTube itself.", "default": false }, "includeDescription": { "title": "Include full descriptions", "type": "boolean", "description": "Store each video's full description. Off by default because descriptions dominate dataset size; a 300-character snippet is always included.", "default": false }, "language": { "title": "Interface language", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter code used for YouTube's display text, e.g. 'en', 'de', 'es'. Affects the wording of relative dates and view counts, not the numbers.", "default": "en" }, "country": { "title": "Country", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter code for the storefront YouTube serves, e.g. 'US', 'GB'. Some videos are region-restricted and will not resolve outside their country.", "default": "US" }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Concurrency", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 30, "type": "integer", "description": "Channels processed in parallel. Responses are small, so this can be raised comfortably.", "default": 8 }, "requestTimeoutSecs": { "title": "Request timeout (seconds)", "minimum": 5, "maximum": 180, "type": "integer", "description": "Per-request timeout.", "default": 45 }, "maxRetries": { "title": "Retries per request", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 5, "type": "integer", "description": "Retries for connection resets and 5xx responses.", "default": 2 }, "flattenOutput": { "title": "Flatten output for CSV", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit flat dot-notation columns with arrays joined by ' | '. Use for spreadsheets; leave off for warehouses.", "default": false }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy", "type": "object", "description": "Optional. YouTube's own endpoints serve this data to anonymous clients, so a proxy is only worth enabling for very large runs or to read a specific country's catalogue.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": 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 } } }, "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 } } } } } } } } } }