We recommend using dataset proxies to achieve the best scraping potential of this actor. You can use either your own proxy servers or you can use Apify Proxies. This actor, as most social media-related scrapers, requires Proxy servers to run properly. The easiest way to know how many credits your actor will need is to perform a test run. If you're not sure how much credits you've got left on your plan and whether you might need to upgrade, you can always check your limits in the Settings -> Usage and Billing tab in your Console. For more details about the plans we offer, platform credits and usage, see the platform pricing page. On average, scraping 1000 items from YouTube via Apify platform will cost you around 2.5 USD credits off your subscription plan.
Unlike with the official YouTube API, with this YouTube scraper, you can scrape the results without quota limits and log in requirement. Using the YouTube scraper, you can extract data from keyword search results, scrape detailed data on videos, like and dislike ratio and channels, download captions and scrape comment sections.