YouTube Video and Shorts Details Scraper
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 youtube video or short details
Extract public metadata from YouTube video and Shorts URLs or IDs. Get titles, descriptions, thumbnails, views, likes, comment counts, dates, duration, tags, chapters, availability, and basic channel data. Each input returns a detail record or clear lookup statusβno YouTube API key required.
You can access the YouTube Video and Shorts Details Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, youβll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,arjun_code/youtube-video-details-scraper" } }}The configuration above connects to the hosted Apify MCP server with the YouTube Video and Shorts Metadata Scraper Actor already loaded. It uses OAuth, so your client opens a browser window to sign you in to Apify on first use. No API token is needed. Clients without OAuth support can authenticate with an Authorization: Bearer header carrying an API token from API & Integrations in Apify Console.
Get a ready-to-use configuration for your MCP client with the YouTube Video and Shorts Metadata Scraper Actor preconfigured at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,arjun_code/youtube-video-details-scraper.
You can connect to the Apify MCP Server using clients like Tester MCP Client, or any other MCP client of your choice.
If you want to learn more about our Apify MCP implementation, check out our MCP documentation. To learn more about the Model Context Protocol in general, refer to the official MCP documentation or read our blog post.