How to scrape YouTube videos, channels, and comments
Extract video metadata, channel stats, and comment threads without the YouTube Data API quota. Works on any channel, playlist, or search result.
Why your current scraper doesn't cut it
The YouTube Data API is free up to a hard quota and gated behind a Google Cloud project for anything serious. Creators and analysts who want a fast snapshot of a channel or a competitive set find the API too slow.
Stekpad scrapes the public YouTube UI. Channel pages, video lists, playlist contents, and top comments — all captured from your browser without touching the API.
How to do it with Stekpad
- 1
Open a YouTube channel or search
Any public channel, playlist, or search result page. - 2
Click a video card
Stekpad highlights every video: title, URL, upload date, view count, duration, thumbnail. - 3
Extract comments (optional)
Second recipe opens each video and captures top comments, author, likes, replies. - 4
Feed to Claude
Pipe video metadata + comments to Claude for content audits, channel benchmarking, or trend analysis.
What you get that other tools miss
No API quota
Skip the Google Cloud project and quota dance.
Top comments
Extract comment threads for sentiment and trend analysis.
Channel benchmarking
Batch-scrape a competitive set of channels for content-mix analysis.
Fast + local
Runs in your browser. No rate limits, no IP blocks.
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