Youtube Scrapper

# YouTube Channel Scraper

A browser-based YouTube channel discovery and scraping tool.

> Part of **[ScrapeClaw](https://www.scrapeclaw.cc/)** — a suite of production-ready, agentic social media scrapers for Instagram, YouTube, X/Twitter, and Facebook built with Python & Playwright, no API keys required.

```yaml
---
name: youtube-scrapper
description: Discover and scrape YouTube channels from your browser.
emoji: 📺
version: 1.0.2
author: influenza
tags:
  - youtube
  - scraping
  - social-media
  - channel-discovery
  - influencer-discovery
metadata:
  clawdbot:
    requires:
      bins:
        - python3
        - chromium

    config:
      stateDirs:
        - data/output
        - data/queue
        - thumbnails
      outputFormats:
        - json
        - csv
---
```

## Overview

This skill provides a two-phase YouTube scraping system:

1. **Channel Discovery** — Find YouTube channels via Google Search (browser-based, no API key required)
2. **Browser Scraping** — Scrape public channel data using Playwright with anti-detection (no login required)

## Features

- 🔍  - Discover YouTube channels by location and category
- 🌐  - Full browser simulation for accurate scraping
- 🛡️  - Browser fingerprinting, human behavior simulation, and stealth scripts
- 📊  - Channel info, subscribers, views, videos, engagement data, and media
- 💾  - JSON export with downloaded thumbnails
- 🔄  - Resume interrupted scraping sessions
- ⚡  - Auto-skip unavailable channels and low-subscriber profiles
- 🌍  - Built-in residential proxy support with 4 providers
- 🗺️  - Regional configs for US, UK, Europe, India, Gulf, and East Asia

## Usage

### Agent Tool Interface

For OpenClaw agent integration, the skill provides JSON output:

```bash
# Discover YouTube channels (returns JSON queue)
python scripts/youtube_channel_discovery.py --categories tech --locations India

# Scrape from a queue file
python scripts/youtube_channel_scraper.py --queue data/queue/your_queue_file.json

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