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YouTube Video Bulk Lookup

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YouTube Video Bulk Lookup

YouTube Video Bulk Lookup

Turn a list of YouTube URLs or video IDs into full metadata rows: title, description, channel, views, duration, publish date, category and captions flag.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 video results

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Paste a list of YouTube URLs and get back a clean metadata table — one row per video, in the order you supplied. Accepts watch URLs, youtu.be share links, Shorts links and bare 11-character video IDs, mixed freely in the same list.

No API key. No YouTube Data API quota. No browser automation.

Every input reconciles

Videos that are private, removed or region-blocked come back as rows with ok: false and a plain-English error, tagged with the exact string you supplied in input. A 500-URL input always produces 500 rows, so you can join results straight back onto your source list without hunting for silent drops.

What you get

FieldExample
inputhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix9cRaBkVe0
oktrue
video_idix9cRaBkVe0
titlePython Full Course for free 🐍
description(full description text)
channel_name / channel_id / channel_urlBro Code · UC4SVo0Ue36XCfOyb5Lh1viQ
view_count11477805
duration_seconds43200
publish_date / upload_date2026-02-15
categoryEducation
keywords["python", "tutorial", ...]
is_live / is_family_safefalse · true
thumbnailhttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/ix9cRaBkVe0/maxresdefault.jpg
fetched_at2026-08-15T19:44:02+00:00

view_count and duration_seconds are real numbers, not display strings — sort and filter them directly.

Input

{
"videoUrls": [
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix9cRaBkVe0",
"https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DCwgXXv5Z_w",
"8KCuHHeC_M0"
],
"includeDescription": true,
"includeKeywords": true
}
OptionDefaultNotes
videoUrls(required)Any mix of URL formats or bare IDs.
includeDescriptiontrueTurn off for a smaller, faster export.
includeKeywordstrueThe creator's own tag list — useful for SEO work.

What people use it for

  • Enriching a video list you already have from search, a spreadsheet or another scraper.
  • Content audits — pull category and keywords across a whole back catalogue.
  • Competitive tracking — re-run the same URL list on a schedule and diff view_count.
  • Channel benchmarking — resolve every video URL from a competitor's catalogue and compare view_count against duration_seconds and publish_date.

Export

Results land in a standard Apify dataset: CSV, JSON, Excel or XML download, or straight from the API.

Notes

  • Metadata comes from the same internal endpoint the YouTube player itself calls, so it matches what a signed-out visitor sees and stays stable when page markup changes.
  • This Actor returns metadata only. It does not download video or audio, and it does not fetch transcripts — YouTube gates caption fetching behind a proof-of-origin token, and no workaround ships here.