YouTube Most Replayed Scraper

Overview

This Apify actor extracts structured data from YouTube's "Most Replayed" heatmap—the visual graph above a video's progress bar that shows which segments are rewatched most frequently. It focuses specifically on replay analytics and audience engagement patterns, unlike broader YouTube scrapers that gather general video metadata.

You provide YouTube video URLs, and the actor returns the video's core details along with the start/end times and intensity scores for its most replayed sections. The output is useful for content creators, marketers, and researchers analyzing viewer behavior.

Key Features

• Replay Heatmap Extraction: Captures the normalized intensity scores and time segments for the most replayed parts of a video.
• Video Metadata: Fetches standard details like Video ID, title, channel, views, likes, comment count, and upload date.
• Bulk Processing: Supports scraping multiple video URLs in a single run.
• Multiple Export Formats: Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel files.
• API & Automation Ready: Designed to integrate with workflows using the Apify API, Zapier, or Google Sheets.
• Performance: Optimized for speed and handling large datasets.

How to Use

1. Access the Actor: Log into your Apify account and find the "YouTube Most Replayed Scraper" in the store.
2. Configure Input: In the actor's input field, paste one or more YouTube video URLs. You can adjust optional settings like maxRetries or requestTimeoutSecs.
3. Run: Start the actor. It will process the URLs and extract the heatmap data and video information.
4. Get Results: Once finished, download your structured dataset from the dataset tab in your preferred format (JSON, CSV, Excel).

Input/Output

Input Example (JSON):

{
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20,
  "urls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ]
}

Output Example (JSON):
The actor returns an array of objects. Each object contains video metadata and a replaySegments array with heatmap data.

[
  {
    "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
    "channelOwner": "Rick Astley",
    "viewCount": "1694624700",
    "likes": "18549049",
    "comments": "2.4M",
    "dateText": "Oct 24, 2009",
    "relativeDate": "15 years ago",
    "replaySegments": [
      {
        "startTime": 12.5,
        "endTime": 18.2,
        "intensity": 0.95
      }
      // ... more segments
    ]
  }
]