How to scrape YouTube w/o api

[shaymiller]

How can I scrape YouTube using simple dom w/o api?

can someone post code on php?

 

[Steptoe]

If you're finding it hard to scrape YT or are getting blocked there are alternative YT front ends that you can scrape for the same information. Look at the Invidious instances: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
You can also trawl through the Invidious code on github and see how they do their YT parsing: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

 

[El-Cherubin]

Hello,

What do you want to scrape ?
You can use solution like Selenium, Pupeteer or Zennoposter to emulate browser & actions.

 

[shaymiller]

Hello,

What do you want to scrape ?
You can use solution like Selenium, Pupeteer or Zennoposter to emulate browser & actions.

Search results, videos only. I don’t need comments, likes etc

can this be done with php?

 

[TomTheCat]

Search results, videos only. I don’t need comments, likes etc

can this be done with php?

Yes it can be done with just PHP. You have to make a POST request with the keywords as parameter to this link:

https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/search?key=[KEY]&prettyPrint=false

then you have to parse the response and get the data you need. You will still need an API key (generated automatically when you visit YouTube).

 

[El-Cherubin]

Thanks TomTheCat, will be usuefull this API. Do you have one for Google Search result too?