YouTube Video Details Scraper: Metadata & Stats

YouTube Video Details Scraper

YouTube video details scraper and YouTube video API: paste video or Shorts links (or bare video IDs) and get the YouTube video metadata and stats as one row per video, with its exact views, likes and comment count, exact publish time, duration, tags, category, spoken language, chapters, a captions flag, every thumbnail size and the channel's subscribers, total views and links. No login, no YouTube API key, no browser.

🎬 Video	📺 Channel	👥 Subscribers	👀 Views	❤️ Likes	💬 Comments	📅 Published	⏱️ Length	📑 Chapters	💬 Captions
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)	Rick Astley	4,550,000	1,831,282,874	19,491,659	2,460,846	2009-10-25 06:57 UTC	00:03:33	–	yes
iPhone 17 Pro Review: Paradox in a Box!	Marques Brownlee	21,400,000	7,530,991	155,865	5,438	2025-09-26 21:00 UTC	00:12:21	6 (description)	yes
Good news: Even moving as little as 1 minute every 60 minutes can have health benefits #TEDTalks	TED	27,900,000	23,740	455	5	2026-10-02 18:30 UTC	00:01:15	–	yes
Pro Max User Switches to iPhone 17 Pro (One Week Later)	Jon Valiagas	100,000	100,414	1,736	198	2026-03-18 14:00 UTC	00:11:34	7 (auto)	yes
Me at the zoo	jawed	6,720,000	446,942,812	20,117,375	10,644,620	2005-04-24 03:31 UTC	00:00:19	3 (description)	yes

$0.39 per 1,000 videos on Starter ($0.45 Free, $0.32 Scale, $0.25 Business). The prefilled run (5 videos) costs about $0.0020. Nothing per run, and nothing for a video YouTube says is unavailable.

Plan	Price per 1,000 videos
Free	$0.45
Starter	$0.39
Scale	$0.32
Business	$0.25

What you type

Input	Example	You get
🔗 Video links or IDs	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ, https://youtu.be/8t9CAXc2D-c, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N6O8b7U6Ti8, jNQXAC9IVRw	One row per video, in the order you listed them

Watch, youtu.be, Shorts, embed and live links all work, and so do bare 11-character IDs. A video you list twice is saved and charged once. Channel, playlist and search links are skipped with a note: the YouTube Scraper reads those. A private, removed or mistyped video is reported in the run's status message and summary, never charged; if every video in the run is unavailable, the run fails instead of ending empty.

What you get in every row

Group	Fields
🎬 Video	title, type (video, shorts, stream), id, url, text (description), descriptionLinks, hashtags, keywords (tags), category, duration, durationSeconds, location
📈 Stats	viewCount, likes (exact), commentsCount (exact: 10,641,982 on "Me at the zoo", where YouTube shows 10M), commentsTurnedOff
🗣️ Language	originalLanguage, originalLanguageCode (the language spoken in the video, e.g. English / en, as YouTube's player gives it), audioTracks (dubbed videos: each audio track's languageCode, name, isOriginal and isAutoDubbed for YouTube's automatic dubs; null with one audio track)
📅 Dates	date (exact publish time, UTC), dateText, uploadDate, liveStartedAt, liveEndedAt, streamType, isLiveNow
📑 Chapters	chapters (title, startSeconds, endSeconds, start, thumbnailUrl), chaptersSource (description = the creator's, auto = YouTube's)
💬 Captions	hasCaptions: the video has captions or subtitles (its own or automatic); captionTracks: each track's language, name, whether it's automatic, and its link
🎞️ Previews	videoPreviews: YouTube's storyboard (seek preview) images per size; isEmbeddable: the owner lets it play embedded on other sites
🖼️ Thumbnails	thumbnailUrl (the largest) and thumbnails: every size YouTube lists, smallest first, {url, width, height} up to 1280x720
🚩 Flags	isAgeRestricted, isFamilySafe, isUnlisted, isPrivate, isMembersOnly, isPaidContent ("Includes paid promotion"), isMonetized (YouTube serves ads on it to a logged-out viewer; null on Shorts), isShortsEligible, isLiveContent, allowRatings, isCrawlable, isUnpluggedCorpus, isTvfilmVideo, hasYpcMetadata, availableCountries
📺 Channel	channelName, channelUrl, channelUsername, channelId, numberOfSubscribers, isChannelVerified, channelAvatarUrl, channelDescription, channelDescriptionLinks (social links), channelJoinedDate, channelLocation (country), channelTotalVideos, channelTotalViews, collaborators
🎵 Shorts	soundTitle, musicTitle, musicArtist
🧾 Run	input (what you typed), order (its place in your list), fromYTUrl, scrapedAt

The dataset has four views: Videos, Video details, Chapters & thumbnails, and Channels.

Measured on 153 rows from three runs on Apify on 2026-10-16 (the prefill, 28 mixed videos and Shorts, 120 TED and Veritasium videos):

Field	Filled
viewCount	100%
likes	100%
commentsCount	99%
date	100%
uploadDate	100%
durationSeconds	100%
keywords	97%
category	100%
thumbnails	100%
chapters	89%
hasCaptions	100%
isFamilySafe	100%
availableCountries	100%
numberOfSubscribers	100%
channelTotalViews	100%
channelDescriptionLinks	98%

chapters is filled where the video has chapters; hasCaptions is true or false on every row. date had the exact publish time on all 153 rows (when YouTube's player answer doesn't come in time, a row keeps the day YouTube shows).

On 2026-10-18 (the prefill and 8 mixed videos, 13 rows): commentsCount was exact on all 11 long videos and both Shorts (a Short's comes from its own player), originalLanguage was filled on 13 of 13, isMonetized on all 11 long videos, and audioTracks on the 5 dubbed ones.

Moving from another video details Actor

Saved inputs run here unchanged: videoIds (thenetaji), urls (delicious_zebu), videoUrls (beyondops) and startUrls are all read as the video list. Field names differ a little:

Their field	Here
lengthSeconds, video_duration	durationSeconds, duration
channelTitle, channel_name	channelName
description	text
thumbnail (array)	thumbnails
likeCount, likes_count	likes
publishDate, publishedAt, published_at	date (exact time; its first 10 characters are the day)
hasCaption, has_captions	hasCaptions
video_tags	keywords
channel_country, social_links	channelLocation, channelDescriptionLinks
liveBroadcastDetails	liveStartedAt, liveEndedAt, isLiveNow
defaultVideoLanguage, defaultVideoLanguageCode	originalLanguage, originalLanguageCode
includesPaidPromotion	isPaidContent
audioTracks	audioTracks
storyboards, playableInEmbed	videoPreviews, isEmbeddable

	thenetaji/youtube-video-details-scraper	This Actor
Price per 1,000 videos, Free / Starter / Scale / Business	$0.95 / $0.80 / $0.65 / $0.50, plus a start fee	$0.45 / $0.39 / $0.32 / $0.25, no start fee
Comment count	no	yes, exact (2,459,988 on Rick Astley, where YouTube shows 2.4M)
Spoken language	on dubbed videos only (3 of 8 videos)	every video (8 of 8)
Chapters	no	yes
Channel subscribers, total views, links, country	no	yes

Prices are from the Apify Store on 2026-10-16. The caption files themselves: the YouTube Subtitles Downloader saves them as SRT or VTT, and the YouTube Transcript API returns the text with timestamps.

Output

One row per video. A real row, shortened:

{
  "title": "iPhone 17 Pro Review: Paradox in a Box!",
  "type": "video",
  "id": "q0aFOxT6TNw",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0aFOxT6TNw",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q0aFOxT6TNw/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "thumbnails": [
    {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q0aFOxT6TNw/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLDCXGlUwUYn8iKdCNDQmgpwtviPqg",
      "width": 686,
      "height": 386
    },
    {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q0aFOxT6TNw/maxresdefault.jpg",
      "width": 1280,
      "height": 720
    }
  ],
  "viewCount": 7491692,
  "likes": 155704,
  "commentsCount": 5440,
  "date": "2025-09-26T21:00:43Z",
  "uploadDate": "2025-09-26T21:00:43Z",
  "duration": "00:12:21",
  "durationSeconds": 741,
  "keywords": [
    "iPhone 17 Pro",
    "iPhone 17 Pro vs",
    "iPhone 17 Pro review",
    "MKBHD"
  ],
  "category": "Science & Technology",
  "originalLanguage": "English",
  "originalLanguageCode": "en",
  "audioTracks": [
    {
      "languageCode": "en",
      "name": "English",
      "isOriginal": true,
      "isAutoDubbed": false
    },
    {
      "languageCode": "ja",
      "name": "Japanese",
      "isOriginal": false,
      "isAutoDubbed": false
    }
  ],
  "isPaidContent": false,
  "isMonetized": true,
  "hasCaptions": true,
  "chapters": [
    {
      "title": "The Pro Paradox",
      "startSeconds": 0,
      "endSeconds": 117,
      "start": "00:00:00",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q0aFOxT6TNw/hqdefault_24900.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEnCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxkIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB&rs=AOn4CLCWmmI1OQKbzVarCVU7rKqQQZm1SA"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pro Cameras",
      "startSeconds": 117,
      "endSeconds": 302,
      "start": "00:01:57",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q0aFOxT6TNw/hqdefault_117200.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEnCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxkIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB&rs=AOn4CLDqx--s3iC9ps4lXayrN2GNs__IvQ"
    }
  ],
  "chaptersSource": "description",
  "isFamilySafe": true,
  "isShortsEligible": false,
  "availableCountries": [
    "AD",
    "AE",
    "AF",
    "AG",
    "AI"
  ],
  "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "numberOfSubscribers": 21400000,
  "channelTotalViews": 5794123433,
  "channelLocation": "United States",
  "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0aFOxT6TNw",
  "order": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T23:02:46Z"
}

(Arrays shortened: this video has 6 thumbnails, 6 audio tracks, 6 chapters and 249 countries.)

The run's summary (key-value store record OUTPUT) lists every input with its status (ok, or notFound with the reason), how many videos were unavailable, and repeats skipped.

Where the video links come from

• From a keyword: YouTube Search Scraper returns the videos YouTube ranks for a search term; paste each row's url here for the full YouTube video stats.
• From a channel or playlist: YouTube Channel Scraper and YouTube Playlist Scraper already carry views, likes and comment counts; use this Actor when you hold a list of links from somewhere else.
• Next, per video: YouTube Comments Scraper for comments and replies, YouTube Transcript API for the transcript. The hasCaptions flag in each row tells you which videos have one.

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