Submit your queries and get Google's video results back as rows - the title, how long the video runs, the site hosting it, a direct link and a thumbnail, one row per result. It tells you what surfaces in the video vertical for a term, and enough about each result to work with it.
Worth drawing the line precisely, because it falls in a different place than most people guess.
A run returns result-level data plus a little about each video itself: the query, the title, how long it runs, the site hosting it, a direct link, and - for most results - a preview image. That's enough to identify a video, judge whether it's a short clip or a long one, and go straight to it.
What it does not return is anything about how a video has performed. There is no view count, no channel name, no upload date, no like or comment count. If audience metrics are what you're after, you want a platform-specific tool rather than a search-results tool - and the catalogue has several dedicated YouTube services covering channels, video detail, comments and transcripts.
Used for what it is, this answers a question those tools can't: which videos Google chooses to show for a term. That's a visibility question, and it's the one video SEO actually turns on.
Same shape as the other search verticals - a list of queries, a locale, and how deep to go.
Pages per query defaults to one, so a run stays modest unless you deliberately go deeper - the opposite of how the images vertical behaves.
Six fields per video result, one row each, every row tagged with the query that surfaced it.
00:26 for a short clip, 1:04:18 for a long one - so parse for hours as well as minutes.youtube.com, but not exclusively - roughly one result in four came from somewhere else.6 columns per result - every column above on every plan, including the free tier.
What isn't here is anything about performance - no view count, no channel name, no upload date, no likes or comments. There's also no ranking-position column, so if result order matters to you, preserve the row order of the export.
Three settings shape a run, and they're the same three used across the search verticals.
Breadth - up to 1,000 queries per run, which is what makes tracking a real keyword set practical rather than a sampling exercise. Depth - pages per query, defaulting to one. Most video-visibility work only needs the first page, because that's what a searcher sees. Locale - language and country as separate settings across all languages and countries, exactly as on the Google Search Scraper. Video results are heavily localised, so this is not a detail you can leave at the default and ignore.
A few examples of how teams use video ranking data.
Publishing a video is not the same as ranking for the terms it targets. Fix a keyword set, re-run it on a cadence, and the diff tells you whether a title or description change actually moved you into the results - the one signal a channel dashboard can't give you.
For many commercial queries the video results are dominated by a handful of creators. Reading the result set tells you who they are and how consistently they appear - often revealing that your real competition for attention isn't another brand at all.
Video is more locally skewed than text. Running the same query across countries and languages shows where a topic is served by local creators and where it isn't - which is a straightforward read on an underserved market.
No subscription, no minimum, no per-keyword licence. Your first 500 rows are on us - after that, pay-as-you-go.
Every new account, one-time. No credit card required. All scrapers unlocked, full feature set - enough to check a keyword set and confirm the columns match what your analysis needs.
Roughly $2 per 1,000 results. With depth defaulting to one page, runs here are more predictable than on most verticals - the estimator still prices it before you start.
Volume pricing, SLAs, dedicated workers and bespoke onboarding for continuous visibility tracking across a big term list. Tell us your numbers and we'll quote.
LIVESCRAPER10 at checkout.Google answers the same term differently in text, pictures and video. Teams tracking a topic usually watch more than one.
The organic vertical for the same query set - listings, ads, shopping results and related questions. The baseline against which a video result is worth interpreting.
The other media vertical, and it does return a source site and hosting link on every row - useful when the question is whose content is ranking rather than only which.
Short answer: yes - and because this returns rankings rather than media, it's among the lower-risk datasets here.
A video results page is public. Google shows anyone the titles, links and snippets for a query, signed in or not. Collecting publicly visible results for research and visibility tracking is long-established practice, and as long as the data is publicly available and the process doesn't disrupt the site there are no federal laws prohibiting it.
Worth noting what this avoids: no video files are downloaded, no media is copied, and no transcript or comment content is collected. What you get is a title, a link and a snippet - a pointer to where a video lives, which is what a results page is for. That keeps it clear of the copyright questions that attach to media itself.
Google's terms restrict automated access, so this remains a terms question. We touch nothing behind a login, run no third-party trackers on the data layer, and your exports auto-delete after 30 days.
The questions we hear most. Anything else? Talk to us - humans, not bots, write the answers.
query, title, duration, source, video_url and thumbnail - so you know how long each video runs and where it's hosted, but nothing about how it has performed. There's no view count, channel name, upload date, like count or comment count. For audience metrics, channel data, comments or transcripts, the catalogue has dedicated YouTube services - see all services.500 one-time free rows on every new account - no expiry. After that it's $0.002 per row, pay-as-you-go - no card on file until you say so.
Livescraper's Google Search Videos Scraper turns a list of queries into video ranking data. You paste the terms you want covered - up to a thousand per run - set the language and country, choose how many pages to return per query, and download the results as CSV, JSON or Excel.
Each row carries six fields: the query that surfaced the result, the title as Google displays it, how long the video runs, the site hosting it, a direct link to the video, and a thumbnail image. Two are worth a note. The duration is a clock string of varying length, so parse for hours as well as minutes rather than assuming minutes and seconds. And the thumbnail arrives on roughly nine rows in ten - in our own runs every YouTube-hosted result carried one, while results from other sites were closer to three in five. What is not here is anything about performance: no view count, no channel name, no upload date, no likes or comments, and no ranking-position column either.
Understood that way it answers a question platform analytics cannot. A channel dashboard tells you how your videos performed once someone found them; only a results pull tells you whether Google surfaced them for the terms you targeted in the first place. Fix a keyword set, re-run on a cadence, and the diff is a genuine video visibility trend.
Competitive teams read the result set to see which creators own a topic, frequently discovering their real competition for attention isn't a rival brand. International teams vary language and country, because video is more locally skewed than text and a gap in local coverage is a straightforward read on an underserved market. If it's video metadata, comments or transcripts you need, the catalogue carries dedicated YouTube services instead. Start free: your first 500 rows cost nothing and need no credit card.