How to Scrape YouTube Data Without the Official API (No Quota Limits)

The YouTube Data API has strict quota limits — 10,000 units per day, and a single search costs 100 units. That gives you only 100 searches per day. Here is how to get YouTube data without those limits, using the internal Innertube API and direct page parsing. 4 YouTube Data Tools 1. YouTube Comments Scraper The official API charges 1 unit per comment. With 10,000 daily units, you can only get 10,000 comments per day. The Innertube API has no such limits. Here is the approach: // Fetch the video page const html = await fetch(`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${videoId}`).then(r => r.text()); // Extract the continuation token from ytInitialData const ytData = JSON.parse(html.match(/ytInitialData\s*=\s*({.*?});/)[1]); // Navigate to comments section const contents = ytData.contents.twoColumnWatchNextResults .results.results.contents; // Find the comment section continuation const commentSection = contents.find(c => c.itemSectionRenderer?.targetId === "comments-section"); The scraper