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YouTube Video Data Extractor

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$3.00 / 1,000 video extracteds

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YouTube Video Data Extractor

YouTube Video Data Extractor

Extract YouTube video metadata (title, channel, views, duration, publish date, keywords, thumbnails) from any list of URLs. No API key needed.

Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 video extracteds

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Mehmet Kut

Mehmet Kut

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Extract YouTube video metadata — title, channel, views, duration, publish date, description, keywords, and thumbnails — from any list of video URLs. No API key, no quota limits.

🎯 What it extracts

  • Title and channel (name + URL + channel ID)
  • View count and duration
  • Publish/upload date and category
  • Full description and keywords/tags (up to 50)
  • Thumbnail URL (max resolution)
  • Live-content and family-safe flags

Accepts watch links, youtu.be short links, Shorts URLs, embed URLs, or raw video IDs.

💡 Use cases

  • Content research — analyze video performance across a channel or topic
  • Competitor tracking — monitor rivals' video stats and keywords
  • SEO / keyword mining — extract tags from top-ranking videos
  • Dataset building — collect video metadata for ML / analysis
  • Trend analysis — track view counts over time

📥 Input

FieldTypeDescription
videoUrlsarrayYouTube video URLs (any format)
videoIdsarrayRaw 11-char video IDs (optional)

Example input

{
"videoUrls": [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"https://youtu.be/abc123XYZ90"
]
}

📤 Output

{
"videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up",
"channel": "Rick Astley",
"viewCount": 1789827378,
"lengthSeconds": 213,
"publishDate": "2009-10-24",
"category": "Music",
"keywords": ["rick astley", "never gonna give you up", "..."],
"thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg"
}

⚡ Performance

Uses YouTube's oEmbed endpoint + HTML data — no browser, no API key, no quota. Fast and lightweight.