YouTube Video Detail Scraper [FAST] | Stats & Insights

YouTube Video Detail Scraper

Collect public YouTube video metadata, views, likes, comment counts, channel information, and engagement insights from video URLs or IDs. Process a batch through lightweight HTTP requests and export clean JSON for research, reporting, and automation.

The video result event is charged only for unique videos successfully saved in the Dataset. Unavailable videos, failed requests, and duplicate inputs have no additional video result charge.

What does YouTube Video Detail Scraper do?

YouTube Video Detail Scraper reads public YouTube page data over HTTP and turns available metadata into a structured dataset. Browser rendering and a YouTube API key are not required.

It can extract:

• Video title, description, URL, publish date, and upload date
• View count, like count, and comment count as numbers, plus the raw comment count
• Duration as a readable string, in seconds, and in milliseconds
• Category, keywords, thumbnail URL, and family safety status
• Channel name, channel ID, and channel URL
• Per-video engagement insights: like rate, comment rate, engagement rate, like-to-comment ratio, estimated watch hours, views per day, and duration category
• Optionally, country availability codes when YouTube supplies them

Why Scrape YouTube Video Details?

A video's metadata tells a story that goes beyond the surface numbers. Likes, comments, and duration together reveal how audiences actually respond to content, not just how many people watched, but how many cared enough to react.

Here are some ways you could use this data:

• Analyze engagement quality on your own or competitor videos
• Compare like rates and comment rates across videos in the same niche
• Build datasets for content strategy, SEO research, or keyword analysis
• Track how a video's stats evolve over multiple runs
• Feed structured video metadata into dashboards, spreadsheets, or AI pipelines

How to Use

Enter video URLs or IDs. The Actor processes a batch with controlled concurrency, reuses channel metadata, and retries temporary source errors. Run time depends on batch size and YouTube availability.

1. Click Try for free
2. Enter one or more YouTube video URLs
3. Optionally enable Include Available Countries to include country availability codes when supplied by YouTube
4. Click Run
5. When done, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab

Input

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"]
}

Batch input

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrT4S9i3agE",
    "https://youtu.be/WOzcFkld6_g"
  ],
  "includeAvailableCountries": false
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
videoUrls	array	none	YouTube video URLs or video IDs (required). Supports watch?v=, youtu.be/, and raw 11-char IDs
includeAvailableCountries	boolean	false	If true, adds a list of up to 249 country codes where the video is available

Output

Each video is saved as one item in the Dataset. The run summary goes to the Key-Value Store under OUTPUT.

Video item

{
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "description": "The official video for \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" by Rick Astley...",
  "publishedAt": "2009-10-24",
  "uploadedAt": "2009-10-24",
  "category": "Music",
  "duration": "3:33",
  "durationSeconds": 213,
  "durationMs": 213000,
  "isLive": false,
  "isUnlisted": false,
  "isFamilySafe": true,
  "keywords": ["rick astley", "Never Gonna Give You Up", "rick roll"],
  "views": 1786979563,
  "likes": 19185631,
  "commentCount": 2400000,
  "commentCountRaw": "2.4M",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.webp",
  "channel": {
    "channelId": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
    "name": "Rick Astley",
    "url": "http://www.youtube.com/@RickAstleyYT"
  },
  "insight": {
    "ageInDays": 6090,
    "viewsPerDay": 293428,
    "likeRate": 1.0736,
    "commentRate": 0.1343,
    "engagementRate": 1.2079,
    "likeToCommentRatio": 7.99,
    "estimatedWatchHours": 105729624.14,
    "durationCategory": "1–5 min"
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-27T17:55:01.413Z"
}

availableCountries is only included when includeAvailableCountries is set to true in the input.

Run summary

{
  "summary": {
    "total": 3,
    "successCount": 3,
    "failedCount": 0,
    "totalCharged": 0.015,
    "startedAt": "2026-06-28T10:00:00.000Z",
    "finishedAt": "2026-06-28T10:00:06.000Z",
    "totalDurationSeconds": 6
  }
}

Output Fields

Video data

Field	Type	Description
videoId	string	YouTube video ID (11-character string)
title	string	Full video title
videoUrl	string	Direct link to the video
description	string	Full video description text
publishedAt	string	Publish date in YYYY-MM-DD format
uploadedAt	string	Upload date in YYYY-MM-DD format (may differ from publish date)
category	string	YouTube category (e.g. Music, Gaming, Education)
duration	string	Duration in M:SS or H:MM:SS format
durationSeconds	integer	Duration in seconds
durationMs	integer	Duration in milliseconds
isLive	boolean	true if the video is or was a live stream
isUnlisted	boolean	true if the video is unlisted
isFamilySafe	boolean	true if YouTube marks the video as family safe
keywords	array	Tags set by the video creator
views	integer	View count
likes	integer	Like count
commentCount	integer	Comment count, normalized from the raw string (e.g. 2.4M → 2400000)
commentCountRaw	string	Raw comment count as shown by YouTube (e.g. "2.4M")
thumbnailUrl	string	Highest-quality thumbnail URL available
channel.channelId	string	YouTube channel ID
channel.name	string	Channel display name
channel.url	string	Link to the channel page
availableCountries	array	ISO country codes where the video is available (only if enabled in input)
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the data was scraped

Scalar fields that YouTube does not expose are returned as null; unavailable tags and country codes are empty arrays. Public metadata can still be delivered when a video player requests login. Category, upload date, flags, and tags may then be absent. Duration recovery uses the channel's current listing and may not cover older uploads.

Insight (nested inside each video item)

Field	Type	Description
ageInDays	integer	Days since the video was published
viewsPerDay	integer	Average views per day since publish date
likeRate	float	(likes / views) x 100, percentage of viewers who liked
commentRate	float	(comments / views) x 100, percentage of viewers who commented
engagementRate	float	((likes + comments) / views) x 100, combined engagement signal
likeToCommentRatio	float	likes / comments, high means quiet appreciation, low means debate
estimatedWatchHours	float	views x durationSeconds / 3600; theoretical full-length viewing hours, not measured watch time
durationCategory	string	One of: < 1 min, 1–5 min, 5–15 min, 15–30 min, 30+ min

Pricing

The video result event costs $0.005 per unique delivered video. Failed or unavailable videos are not saved as result rows. Repeating the same video as a URL and an ID produces one row and one video result event.

Delivered videos	Video result events
1	$0.005
10	$0.05
50	$0.25
100	$0.50

A delivered row may contain null for fields that YouTube does not expose. These rows retain their normal video result charge.

Run summary and unavailable videos

The Dataset contains video results. The Key-Value Store record OUTPUT contains summary, results, and issues. Read issues for invalid inputs, unavailable videos, source errors, and unavailable fields.

summary.status	Meaning
completed	Videos were saved. Optional fields may be unavailable; see partialMetadataCount and issues.
partial	Some videos were saved, but source errors or the spending limit prevented completion.
empty	None of the supplied videos had public metadata available. The run succeeds with an explanation.
invalid_input	The supplied URLs, IDs, or input structure were invalid. The run succeeds with an explanation.
failed	A technical error prevented delivery or persistence. The run fails; any already saved rows remain in the Dataset.

The summary also reports duplicate inputs, unavailable videos, source errors, and saved result counts. Technical error rows are never mixed into the video Dataset.

Notes

• Supported inputs: watch?v=, youtu.be/, /shorts/, /embed/, /live/, and raw 11-character video IDs.
• Numeric counts can be rounded estimates if YouTube displays an abbreviated value such as 2.4M. They are returned as numbers, not numeric strings.
• Unknown scalar fields and insights requiring those fields are null. Unknown isLive, isUnlisted, and isFamilySafe flags are also null.
• estimatedWatchHours assumes each view watched the entire video; it is not actual audience watch time.
• includeAvailableCountries is off by default. It does not guarantee that YouTube exposes a complete availability list.
• Requests are paced. HTTP 429 pauses the shared YouTube queue, respects Retry-After, and reduces request concurrency. Repeated rate limits stop further attempts; already saved results remain available.
• Invalid inputs and unavailable videos are skipped with explanations in OUTPUT.issues.

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