Google Videos Scraper

Scrapes Google Videos for any query. Extracts the full canonical videos-vertical schema: title, URL, embed URL, channel/publisher, duration, views, likes, comments, publish date, thumbnail, platform, isLive/isShort flags, resolution, and more.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts Google Videos results into one clean JSON record per video, including video and embed URLs, channel or publisher, duration, views and engagement, publication time, thumbnail, platform, live or short flags, resolution, and search provenance when available.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 49-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• Video discovery
• Publisher and topic monitoring
• Media-catalog enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied. The Default / example column shows a schema default when one exists; otherwise it shows a documented prefill or fixture value.

Field	Type	Required	Default / example	Description
query	string	Yes	"machine learning tutorial"	The video search term to use on Google Videos
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum number of video results to retrieve
gl	string	No	"us"	Two-letter country code for localized Google results (e.g. 'us', 'in', 'uk')
hl	string	No	"en"	Two-letter language code for Google interface language (e.g. 'en', 'es', 'de')
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}	Proxy settings for the scraper. Residential proxies are recommended for Google.

Example input

{
  "query": "cats",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "GOOGLE_SERP"
    ]
  },
  "gl": "us",
  "hl": "en"
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per video result. The following are the most useful fields; engagement, channel, publication, embed, live-status, and resolution fields depend on the result.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
type	string	Type
title	string	Title
description	string	Description
url	string	URL
link	string	Link
query	string	Query
searchQuery	string	Search Query
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At
thumbnail	string	Thumbnail
channel	string	Channel
duration	string	Duration
viewCount	string	View Count
publishedAt	string	Published At
platform	string	Platform
resultType	string	Result Type

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "type": "video",
  "title": "This Might Be The Most Perfect Cat Ever",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnxUpD0LcAA",
  "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnxUpD0LcAA",
  "searchQuery": "cats",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fnxUpD0LcAA/hqdefault.jpg",
  "platform": "www.youtube.com › watch",
  "resultType": "video",
  "page": 1,
  "embedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/fnxUpD0LcAA",
  "videoId": "fnxUpD0LcAA"
}

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