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🚀 YouTube Video Downloader (Soundless) | Extract Direct Video-Only Links & Metadata

** Description:** Download video-only YouTube streams (no audio) and extract rich video metadata using this Apify Actor. Supports resolution selection (1080p, 4K, 8K), batch URLs, and automation-ready output.

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🎯 What This Apify Actor Does

This YouTube Video Downloader Actor extracts detailed metadata and provides direct downloadable video-only URLs (without audio) from YouTube videos.

It is designed for developers, automation systems, and media workflows that need clean, structured video data and direct media stream links for processing, archiving, or analytics.

▶️ Run on Apify Console

• 🚀 Step 1: Open the actor in Apify Console.
• 🧩 Step 2: Paste the example input into the Input field.
• ▶️ Step 3: Click Run.
• 📊 Step 4: Monitor run logs & view output dataset. Download results from the default dataset.

🎯 What This Actor Does

• ✅ Accepts one or multiple supported video URLs
• ✅ Processes each URL independently
• ✅ Returns direct media-only URLs
• ✅ Supports video-only outputs
• ✅ Allows quality/resolution selection
• ✅ Handles retries automatically to improve success rate

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✅ Core Capabilities

• Extracts video metadata from YouTube URLs
• Provides direct video-only download links (no audio stream)
• Supports multiple resolutions (1080p, 4K, 8K, etc.)
• Processes single or multiple URLs in batch
• Automatically selects best available match if exact resolution is unavailable
• Built with retries and proxy rotation for higher reliability

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⭐ Key Features

• ✔ Direct video stream URLs (no audio)
• ✔ Clean, structured JSON output
• ✔ Supports HD, Full HD, 2K, 4K, and 8K
• ✔ Works with single videos or bulk lists
• ✔ Designed for automation pipelines
• ✔ Reliable extraction with retry logic
• ✔ Optimized for large-scale media data workflows

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🧭 Actor Overview

Item	Details
Actor Name	youtube-video-downloader-soundless
Platform	Apify
Use Case	Extract YouTube video metadata + video-only download link
Output Type	Structured JSON dataset
Best For	Developers, data engineers, media automation

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🔍 This Actor Targets

YouTube video downloader API, download YouTube video without audio, YouTube direct video link extractor, YouTube metadata scraper, extract YouTube video URL, YouTube HD video downloader automation, YouTube video stream extractor

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🧾 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
startUrls	Array	✅ Yes	List of YouTube video or playlist URLs	[{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123" }]
videoResolution	String	❌ No (Default: 1080p)	Desired resolution. Falls back to highest available video-only format.	"4K"

🎥 Supported Resolutions

8K, 4K, 2K, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p

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📥 Input Sample

You provide a list of URLs and your desired resolution.

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example1" },
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example2" }
  ],
  "videoResolution": "1080p"
}

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📄 Output Sample

A single result item looks like this:

[
 {
   "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example1",
   "requested_resolution": "1080p",
   "title": "Amazing Nature Documentation 4K",
   "channel": "NatureWorld",
   "duration": "12m 30s",
   "provided_resolution": "1080p",
   "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example1/maxresdefault.jpg",

   "downloadable_video_link": "https://rr----------------sn-ox02.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?...",

   "view_count": "5.2M",
   "categories": ["Nature", "Travel"],
   "description": "Experience the beauty of nature in 4K...",
   "availability": "public",
   "live_status": "not_live",
   "channel_subscribers": "1.2M",
   "video_filesize": "200MB"
  },
  {
   "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example2",
   "requested_resolution": "1080p",
   "title": "Nature Documentation 2K",
   "channel": "Nature",
   "duration": "2hour 17m 30s",
   "provided_resolution": "1080p",
   "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/example2/maxresdefault.jpg",

   "downloadable_video_link": "https://rr----------------sn-ox03.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?...",
  
   "view_count": "5.2M",
   "categories": ["Nature", "Travel"],
   "description": "Beauty of nature in 8K...",
   "availability": "public",
   "live_status": "not_live",
   "channel_subscribers": "3.2M",
   "video_filesize": "500MB"
  } 
]...............

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📝 Output Fields Explanation

Here is a detailed breakdown of the fields you will receive in the output:

Field	Description
original_url	🔗 The URL of the YouTube video that was processed.
requested_resolution	🎯 The generic resolution you requested (e.g., "1080p").
title	🎬 The full title of the video.
channel	👤 The name of the channel or uploader.
duration	⏱️ The length of the video (e.g., "10m 5s").
provided_resolution	📏 The actual resolution of the video link obtained (e.g., "1080p").
thumbnail	🖼️ URL to the high-quality thumbnail image.
downloadable_video_link	📥 Direct link to download the video file (video stream only).
view_count	👁️ Total number of views formatted (e.g., "1.5M").
categories	🏷️ List of categories the video belongs to.
description	📝 The full text description of the video.
availability	🔓 Privacy status (e.g., "public").
live_status	🔴 Indicates if the video is currently live ("live" or "not_live").
channel_subscribers	👥 Number of subscribers to the channel (e.g., "100K").
video_filesize	💾 Approximate size of the video file (e.g., "150MB").

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🚀 Benefits of Using This Actor

• 🔹 Saves time extracting direct media links
• 🔹 Avoids unnecessary audio streams
• 🔹 Perfect for video archiving systems
• 🔹 Ideal for AI video processing pipelines
• 🔹 Works great for content analysis & metadata research
• 🔹 Scales easily for bulk automation

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✅ Best Practices

• ✔ Use valid YouTube video URLs
• ✔ Avoid extremely large batches in one run
• ✔ Choose realistic resolution values
• ✔ Re-run failed URLs if temporary issues occur

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⚠️ Common Issues & Solutions

Issue	Cause	Solution
No download link	Format unavailable	Try lower resolution
Failed status	Invalid URL	Verify link
Slow run	Large batch	Split into smaller runs
Resolution mismatch	Not available	Actor returns closest match

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🔄 Reliability & Retry System

This actor includes automatic retry handling to recover from:

• Temporary network failures
• Format availability delays
• Proxy-related interruptions

This ensures higher success rates without manual retries.

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🔐 Privacy & Security

This actor does not expose internal implementation details. It focuses purely on input → output behavior, keeping internal logic secure.

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📌 Final Summary

• 🎯 Extract YouTube video metadata
• 🎯 Get direct video-only download URLs
• 🎯 Choose HD to 8K resolutions
• 🎯 Works in bulk automation workflows
• 🎯 Clean, structured developer-friendly output

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Actor names :

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