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YouTube Metadata Scraper

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Look up YouTube videos by ID or URL and export title, views, likes, channel, description, duration, and upload date.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 video metadata

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Developer

datacortex

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What you get

Field	Example
`title`	Never Gonna Give You Up
`url`	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIgIF5lve8U
`videoId`	tIgIF5lve8U
`channelName`	Rick Astley
`channelUrl`	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC…
`views`	1600000000
`likes`	18000000
`duration`	3:33
`publishedAt`	2009-10-25
`thumbnailUrl`	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/…/hq720.jpg

This Actor reads one video per input. It does not search YouTube, download files, or pull transcripts.

How to run

Open the Actor in Apify Console.
Paste video IDs or watch / Shorts / youtu.be URLs, one per line.
Optional: set a max-results cap.
Click Start. Open the Output tab when the run finishes.

Example input

{
  "videoIds": [
    "tIgIF5lve8U",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIgIF5lve8U"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}

Duplicate IDs (including the same video as ID and URL) are fetched once.

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datacortex~youtube-metadata-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"videoIds":["tIgIF5lve8U"]}'

Replace YOUR_TOKEN with an Apify API token.

Use with MCP / agents

This is a normal Apify Actor. Agents call it through Apify MCP — you do not run a separate MCP process.

Pin this Actor as a tool (after it is public):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=datacortex/youtube-metadata-scraper"
    }
  }
}

The agent should fetch-actor-details on datacortex/youtube-metadata-scraper, then run it with the same JSON as Example input above. Running Actors requires an Apify token (OAuth in the client, or Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>).

Pricing

$5.00 per 1,000 videos + $0.001 per run.

Each input is one vendor lookup and one dataset row. That is not the same product as a search scraper ($0.50 / 1,000), which returns many rows per query.

Event	When it fires	Price
`apify-actor-start`	Once when the run starts	$0.001
`apify-default-dataset-item`	Once per dataset row (one video)	$0.005 ($5.00 / 1,000)

Job	Rows	You pay
1 video	1	$0.001 + $0.005 = $0.006
10 videos	10	$0.001 + $0.050 = $0.051
100 videos	100	$0.001 + $0.500 = $0.501
1,000 videos	1,000	$0.001 + $5.000 = $5.001

Set a max total charge per run so a long list cannot overrun budget. The Actor stops when that limit is reached.

Input reference

Field	Required	Default	Notes
`videoIds`	yes	—	IDs or URLs, max 1,000, duplicates skipped
`maxResults`	no	all	Hard cap across the list

Limitations

Public video metadata only. Private, deleted, members-only, and some live or geo-blocked videos return an error row.
This Actor does not download video files, transcripts, comments, or channel subscriber lists.
Likes and comment counts are omitted when YouTube hides them.
Failed lookups write one type: "error" row so you can see which ID failed.

Local development

python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env
apify run --input-file=apify_input.json --purge

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

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