🎥 What does Youtube metadata scraper do?

Youtube metadata scraper will enable you to extract metadata from a Youtube URL, providing you with valuable information such as the title, subtitles, uploader, view count, like count, and more.

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Youtube metadata scraper can scrape:

• 📝 Title
• 🎧 Subtitles
• 👤 Uploader
• 👁️ View count
• 👍 Like count
• And much more

🤔 Why scrape Youtube?

Youtube is one of the most popular video-sharing platforms with millions of users and a vast amount of data available. Scraping Youtube can provide valuable insights for various industries and use cases.

Here are just some of the ways you could use the scraped data:

• 🔍 Analyze trending topics
• 🆚 Monitor competitor videos
• 📊 Track engagement metrics
• 📚 Research content strategies

If you would like more inspiration on how scraping Youtube could help your business or organization, check out our industry pages.

🛠️ How to scrape Youtube

It's easy to scrape Youtube with Youtube metadata scraper. Just follow these few steps and you'll get your data in a few minutes.

1. ✨ Click on Try for free.
2. 🔗 Enter the Youtube URL you want to scrape.
3. ▶️ Click on Run.
4. 📥 When Youtube metadata scraper has finished, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab.

💰 How much will it cost to scrape Youtube?

Apify gives you $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan. You can get a certain number of results per month from Youtube metadata scraper for free with the free plan!

But if you need to scrape more data regularly from Youtube, you should consider an Apify subscription. We recommend our $49/month Starter plan - you can get a higher limit of results every month with the $49 monthly plan!

📊 Results

Here is a sample of the data that the Actor produces:

1{
2        "title": "SpaceX completes world first landing after rocket booster caught by mechanical arms",
3        "id": "3GwQdrhp__k",
4        "subtitles": {},
5        "comment_count": 507,
6        "chapters": null,
7        "like_count": 2915,
8        "channel": "Sky News",
9        "channel_follower_count": 8060000,
10        "channel_is_verified": true,
11        "uploader": "Sky News",
12        "uploader_id": "@SkyNews",
13        "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNews",
14        "upload_date": "20241013",
15        "timestamp": 1728843268,
16        "availability": "public",
17        "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwQdrhp__k",
18        "webpage_url_basename": "watch",
19        "webpage_url_domain": "youtube.com",
20        "playlist": null,
21        "playlist_index": null,
22        "display_id": "3GwQdrhp__k",
23        "fulltitle": "SpaceX completes world first landing after rocket booster caught by mechanical arms",
24        "duration_string": "2:30",
25        "release_year": null,
26        "is_live": false,
27        "was_live": false,
28        "requested_subtitles": null,
29        "filesize": 8010685,
30        "source_preference": -1,
31        "fps": 25,
32        "audio_channels": 2,
33        "height": 360,
34        "quality": 6.0,
35        "filesize_approx": 8010669,
36        "url": "https://rr3---sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1729014097&ei=8VQOZ-rLCvPL6dsPqtGDgQQ&ip=31.187.165.43&id=o-AE8aq_h140vJ2o0wbmcBADYHBikopYBe64KUw1QOJkKd&itag=18&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1728992497%2C&mh=Hg&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe%2Csn-5hnednss&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=u&mvi=3&pl=20&rms=au%2Cau&bui=AXLXGFSMW3bnxyiZXpwsCqr79blyJ6eht9pm356r-_AQcnvJghVw8kik3TT4amcuc6vquZVf-obvfHaY&spc=54MbxVfLqCLRkvAPiFXqeg7DFF1y7X_XCM3bI9mYmfA8w6o11V7cDi6Pc6nEj54&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=7iUcX9ys4UHVG0jh3ROtTDsQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=8010685&ratebypass=yes&dur=149.861&lmt=1728928713226741&mt=1728991542&fvip=2&fexp=51300761%2C51312688&c=MWEB&sefc=1&txp=4538434&n=yOMqn2U6Xd74WA&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cratebypass%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRgIhAJ82qtNL05M8ulMDc1omm0XngEpyxaf1oEI5lEbW2j-mAiEA7S3tls9DUy7BI2MaL95p8Yrha8HFwWNbEm_6noUZQMw%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms&lsig=ACJ0pHgwRAIgXOxubrggEjQYqmAoVqObWKUeFH8h2CpFn6yMR49srbQCIC4wqK-T6p1LLYQT5cWQurCCSl1CJJIO8oJgoj7mvy_T",
37        "width": 640,
38        "language": "en",
39        "language_preference": -1,
40        "preference": null,
41        "ext": "mp4",
42        "vcodec": "avc1.42001E",
43        "acodec": "mp4a.40.2",
44        "dynamic_range": "SDR",
45        "downloader_options": {
46            "http_chunk_size": 10485760
47        },
48        "protocol": "https",
49        "resolution": "640x360",
50        "aspect_ratio": 1.78,
51        "http_headers": {
52            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.54 Safari/537.36",
53            "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
54            "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
55            "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"
56        },
57        "video_ext": "mp4",
58        "audio_ext": "none"
59    }

💡 Tips for scraping Youtube

• 🔑 Use specific keywords in your search to get more relevant results.
• 📡 Monitor the Youtube API for any changes that may affect your scraping.

🛑 Is it legal to scrape Youtube?

Note that scraping Youtube may be subject to terms of service and copyright laws. Ensure you are compliant with Youtube’s policies and regulations when scraping data from the platform.

For more information on web scraping legality, read our blog post: is web scraping legal?.