YouTube data

YouTube Video Details Scraper (bulk, lightweight)

Full metadata for up to 500 YouTube videos per run: title, description, view count, duration, publish date, category, tags, channel and thumbnail. Paste URLs, short links, shorts or bare video ids. Only delivered videos are charged.

Run it on Apify Read the guide

$1.50per 1,000 · Video delivered

One video with full metadata delivered to the dataset. Videos that fail, are deleted or are private are never charged.

run it

ACTOR=steadydata~youtube-video-details
URL="https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR/run-sync-get-dataset-items"

curl -X POST "$URL?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"videos": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", "JGwWNGJdvx8"], "language": "en", "country": "US"}'

# rows come straight back as JSON, one object per delivered row

Input

Field	Name	What it does
`videos` required	Videos	Video URLs or ids, up to 500 per run. Watch URLs, youtu.be links, shorts, embeds and bare 11-character ids all work.
`language`	Language	Interface language for the texts YouTube returns, e.g. en, nl, de.
`country`	Country	ISO country code used for the request, e.g. US, NL, DE. Some videos are region restricted.

What you get back

Field	Type
`videoId`	string, null
`url`	string, null
`title`	string, null
`description`	string, null
`channelId`	string, null
`channelName`	string, null
`channelUrl`	string, null
`viewCount`	integer, null
`durationSeconds`	integer, null
`publishDate`	string, null
`uploadDate`	string, null
`category`	string, null
`tags`	array, null
`isLiveContent`	boolean, null
`isFamilySafe`	boolean, null
`thumbnailUrl`	string, null
`status`	string, null
`input`	string, null
`errorCode`	string, null
`error`	string, null