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YouTube scrapers : compare the best scrapers in 2026

Video platforms offer official data paths; compare vendors when you still need HTML or headless flows for gaps the API does not cover.

  1. Top 1
    Firecrawl
    DeliveryCloud API · Crawl + map engine
    IntegrationREST API · SDKs (Node, Python, …)
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  2. Top 2
    Apify
    DeliveryCloud API · Managed browsers
    IntegrationREST API · SDKs (Node, Python, …)
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  3. Top 3
    ScrapingBee
    DeliveryCloud API · Rendered HTML / JS
    IntegrationREST API · SERP & listing parsers (Google…
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  4. Top 4
    ZenRows
    DeliveryCloud API · Rendered HTML / JS
    IntegrationREST API · SERP & listing parsers (Google…
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Comparison

YouTube scrapers compared in 2026

4 platforms in this hub

  1. #1Table rank

    Platform

    Firecrawl

    Starting from

    Free tier + metered crawl/extract; verify current limits

    Headquarters

    United States (verify)

    Delivery Cloud API · Crawl + map engine · Rendered H…

    Integration REST API · SDKs (Node, Python, …) · LLM-friendl…

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  2. #2Table rank

    Platform

    Apify

    Starting from

    Free tier + usage-based actors; paid from low tens $/mo (verify)

    Headquarters

    Czech Republic

    Delivery Cloud API · Managed browsers · Self-hosted …

    Integration REST API · SDKs (Node, Python, …) · Webhooks · …

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  3. #3Table rank

    Platform

    ScrapingBee

    Starting from

    Credit-based API; entry tiers change. Verify live calculator

    Headquarters

    France

    Delivery Cloud API · Rendered HTML / JS

    Integration REST API · SERP & listing parsers (Google, Bing…

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  4. #4Table rank

    Platform

    ZenRows

    Starting from

    Subscription + request tiers; promos vary

    Headquarters

    Switzerland (verify)

    Delivery Cloud API · Rendered HTML / JS

    Integration REST API · SERP & listing parsers (Google, Bing…

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Guidance

YouTube scrapers : compare the best scrapers in 2026

YouTube offers rich official APIs for many objects. Scraping hubs still matter when you must backfill historical HTML, parse channel pages beyond API quotas, or combine with crawl pipelines.

This hub compares vendors we tag for YouTube workflows. Validate quota math early: video volume explodes line items in billing.

Transcripts and comment threads are separate surfaces with different rate limits and breakage modes.

Respect robots and terms: some research use cases belong behind official data agreements.

How to read the ranking

Ordering follows our editorial order within the YouTube-tagged vendor set. API quota and HTML fragility dominate incidents.

Buyer checklist

Decide per object: channel uploads list, video details, captions, or comments.

Measure whether Data API v3 satisfies your fields before commissioning scrape work.

Cache stable metadata where terms allow.

Plan for age-restricted or region-blocked videos in your target set.

When is scraping better than the official API?

When you need fields or historical slices the API does not expose, or when you are ingesting pages as documents for LLM pipelines. Still confirm compliance.

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