YouTube Video Statistics Scraper 📊

🎯 Purpose

This actor helps you extract comprehensive statistics and metadata from YouTube videos. It's perfect for content creators, marketers, and researchers who need detailed insights about YouTube videos.

✨ Features

• 🎥 Extracts complete video metadata
• 📈 Gets real-time view counts, likes, and comments
• 👤 Retrieves channel information
• 🏷️ Collects video tags and categories
• 🖼️ Provides all thumbnail URLs
• 📝 Captures full video descriptions
• ⏰ Includes publishing timestamps
• 🌍 Supports multiple video URLs processing

🔢 Output Data

For each YouTube video URL, the actor extracts:

• Channel ID and title
• Video title and description
• View count, likes, and comments
• Publishing date and time
• All available thumbnail versions
• Video tags and category
• Default language setting

💡 Use Cases

• 📊 Track video performance metrics
• 🔍 Competitive analysis
• 📈 Content strategy research
• 🎯 Audience engagement monitoring
• 📱 Social media marketing insights

💪 Benefits

• Fast and reliable data extraction
• Clean, structured JSON output
• Supports batch processing of multiple videos
• Regular updates to maintain compatibility
• Respects YouTube's terms of service

🔧 Input Configuration

Simply provide:

1. List of YouTube video URLs
2. Optional maximum items limit
3. Optional proxy configuration

📋 Output Format

Results are stored in JSON format, containing all video statistics and metadata. Each video generates a detailed record with engagement metrics, metadata, and thumbnail information.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Input your YouTube video URL(s)
2. Set optional parameters if needed
3. Run the actor and get structured data

📝 Note

The actor uses public data only and respects YouTube's terms of service.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
    "youtubeVideoUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV23VDFWC3o"
    ]
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
    {
        "youtubeVideoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV23VDFWC3o",
        "channelId": "UCCrGfO9A8eLdSsB4bWbMhTg",
        "channelTitle": "Boys Playtime",
        "videoTitle": "6 Dinosaur Punch Box | T-Rex Mosasaurus Velociraptor Blue",
        "views": "933,276",
        "likes": "2,093",
        "comments": "0",
        "publishedAt": "2024-04-01T09:00:24Z",
        "description": "6 Dinosaur Punch Box | T-Rex Mosasaurus Velociraptor Blue\n\nSubscribe to Boy's Playtime for more SURPRISES!\nhttps://www.youtube.com/c/BoysPlaytime\n\n#dinosaurs #tyrannosaurus #mosasaurus",
        "thumbnails": [
            {
                "type": "default",
                "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HV23VDFWC3o/default.jpg"
            },
            {
                "type": "medium",
                "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HV23VDFWC3o/mqdefault.jpg"
            },
            {
                "type": "high",
                "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HV23VDFWC3o/hqdefault.jpg"
            },
            {
                "type": "standard",
                "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HV23VDFWC3o/sddefault.jpg"
            },
            {
                "type": "maxres",
                "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HV23VDFWC3o/maxresdefault.jpg"
            }
        ],
        "tags": [
            "dinosaurs",
            "dinos",
            "jurassic world",
            "tyrannosaurus",
            "rex",
            "indominus",
            "mosasaurus",
            "Dilophosaurus",
            "Velociraptor",
            "jurassic world Squishy",
            "punch box",
            "dinosaur box",
            "공룡",
            "펀치 박스",
            "서프라아즈 박스",
            "공룡 박스",
            "티라노사우루스",
            "모사사우루스"
        ],
        "category": "Entertainment",
        "defaultLanguage": "0"
    },
    ...
]

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