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YouTube Scraper API | Extract Video Metadata & SEO Tags

Extract hidden SEO tags, view counts, and engagement metrics from any YouTube video instantly. Reverse-engineer viral videos and competitor strategies.

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YouTube Video Metadata Extractor

Audit YouTube video SEO and performance metrics at scale by extracting titles, view counts, likes, tags, and descriptions from any public video. Runs without a headless browser or YouTube API key, so you can scan thousands of videos quickly and cheaply. Ideal for content audits, competitor analysis, and automated reporting.

Features

Full metadata extraction — title, description, view count, likes, publish date, and tags from every video
Channel context — returns the channel name and ID alongside each video's data
Bulk scanning — process hundreds of video URLs in a single run
Parallel execution — configurable concurrency for high-throughput batch jobs
No API key needed — parses YouTube's public HTML directly, no quota limits
SEO-ready tags — extracts the full keyword tag list for competitive SEO analysis

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`urls`	`array`	Yes	—	YouTube video URLs to extract metadata from
`timeoutSeconds`	`integer`	No	`15`	Maximum seconds to wait for each video page to respond
`concurrency`	`integer`	No	`10`	Number of videos to process in parallel. Increase for large batches, decrease if you see errors.

Input Example

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw"
  ],
  "timeoutSeconds": 15,
  "concurrency": 10
}

Output

Each video produces one dataset row containing the full metadata profile: title, view and like counts, publish date, description, tags, and channel info.

Key output fields:

Field	Type	Description
`inputUrl`	`string`	The video URL you provided
`videoId`	`string`	YouTube video ID
`title`	`string`	Video title
`channelName`	`string`	Name of the channel that uploaded the video
`channelId`	`string`	YouTube channel ID
`viewCount`	`string`	Total view count
`likeCount`	`string`	Total like count
`publishDate`	`string`	Date the video was published (YYYY-MM-DD)
`description`	`string`	Full video description text
`tags`	`array`	List of keyword tags set by the uploader

Output Example

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "videoId": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "title": "Introduction to Machine Learning — Full Course",
  "channelName": "Tech Academy",
  "channelId": "UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "viewCount": "2450000",
  "likeCount": "87000",
  "publishDate": "2024-06-15",
  "description": "A comprehensive introduction to machine learning concepts, covering supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, and practical applications...",
  "tags": ["machine learning", "AI", "tutorial", "deep learning", "python"]
}

Pricing

Pay per event on Apify platform.

Event	Description
Video Scan	One video URL processed and metadata extracted

Use Cases

Video SEO audits — compare titles, tags, and descriptions across your video library to find optimization gaps
Competitor analysis — track rival channels' top-performing videos by view and like counts
Content calendars — pull publish dates and metadata to map competitors' posting cadence
Agency reporting — automate weekly performance snapshots for client YouTube channels
Dataset building — collect structured video metadata for trend analysis or ML training

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