# YouTube

Guides to YouTube's public data. The family worth reading carefully, because its actors disagree with each other about types: one returns integers where another returns "3.4K" as a string.

**3** Guides

**4** Scrapers covered

**29 September 2026** Last updated

[![Cover card reading "Parsing YouTube's abbreviated counts without losing data"](/blog/covers/youtube-count-strings.png)YouTube ### Parsing YouTube's abbreviated counts YouTube Comments Scraper returns likeCount as the string "3.4K". Two other YouTube actors return integers. Here is how to handle both without lying. ![apidojo](/blog/authors/apidojo.png)Apidojo29 September 2026 2 min](/blog/youtube/youtube-count-strings/)

[![Cover card reading "Measuring a YouTube course's real length before you commit"](/blog/covers/youtube-course-length.png)YouTube ### Measuring a YouTube course's real length Playlist duration is a guaranteed number, and a hundred videos come free with every query. Summing a curriculum's true running time costs a nickel. ![apidojo](/blog/authors/apidojo.png)Apidojo29 September 2026 2 min](/blog/youtube/youtube-course-length/)

[![Cover card reading "Why hidden YouTube subscriber counts are not zeros"](/blog/covers/youtube-hidden-subscribers.png)YouTube ### Why hidden YouTube subscriber counts are not zeros On YouTube Channel Scraper every metric is optional and only identity is guaranteed. A channel with no subscriberCount has not failed, and you paid for it. ![apidojo](/blog/authors/apidojo.png)Apidojo29 September 2026 2 min](/blog/youtube/youtube-hidden-subscribers/)

## The scrapers behind this

-   [YouTube Comments Scraper Comments and replies from any video URL $0.001 / video + $0.50 / 1K](/scrapers/youtube-comments-scraper/)
-   [YouTube Channel Videos Scraper Every video from a channel or channel search $0.015 / channel + $0.50 / 1K](/scrapers/youtube-channel-scraper/)
-   [YouTube Playlist Scraper Playlist metadata and every video in it $0.025 / playlist + $0.50 / 1K](/scrapers/youtube-playlist-scraper/)
-   [YouTube Channel Info Scraper Channel profiles, subscribers and stats; country and language targeting $0.005 / channel + $0.50 / 1K](/scrapers/youtube-channel-information-scraper/)