Key Takeaway
Scrape YouTube Videos By Query extracts structured professional data from any LinkedIn profile URL — including headline, experience, education, skills, and certifications — at 1 credit per run. It is part of SyncGTM's 75+ enrichment library and is available via CLI and MCP.
What is Scrape YouTube Videos By Query Action?
Scrape YouTube Videos By Query is a research action that searches YouTube for specific queries and retrieves detailed video information for the top results. Unlike the basic URL scraper, this action returns richer metadata including descriptions, tags, engagement metrics, and channel information. It is designed for deep content research where you need comprehensive data about videos matching a specific topic.
The action returns structured data including video URLs, titles, full descriptions, view counts, like counts, comment counts, channel details, tags, and publication dates. This rich metadata enables advanced content analysis — understanding not just what content exists on a topic, but how audiences are engaging with it, what keywords creators are targeting, and which channels dominate specific topics.
This action uses waterfall enrichment to query multiple premium data providers in sequence, delivering higher match rates than single-source alternatives. Learn more about how waterfall enrichment works.
How it works
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Provide a search query describing the topic or content you want to find.
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SyncGTM searches YouTube and retrieves detailed metadata for the top matching videos.
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The action returns comprehensive video data including engagement metrics, descriptions, tags, and channel info.
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Use the results for content strategy, competitive analysis, or audience research.
Use cases
Content Gap Analysis
Search for topics related to your product and analyze existing YouTube content. Identify gaps where no quality content exists and create videos to fill them.
Keyword and Tag Research
Analyze the tags and descriptions of top-performing videos to understand what keywords and phrases drive YouTube discovery. Use these insights for your own video SEO strategy.
Audience Engagement Research
Study engagement metrics (views, likes, comments) across videos on a topic to understand what formats, lengths, and angles resonate most with your target audience.
Influencer Discovery
Search for content on your product category and identify the channels creating it. Find potential influencer partners based on their reach and content quality.
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| search_query | string | Yes | The search query to find videos on YouTube (e.g., 'sales engagement platform demo'). |
Output
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| videos_found | number | Total number of videos returned. |
| videos | array | List of videos with url, title, description, view_count, like_count, comment_count, channel, tags, published_date, and duration. |
| query | string | The search query that was used. |
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