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YouTube Video Scraper & YouTube Shorts Scraper: Search, Channel

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YouTube scraper and YouTube Data API alternative for video details and metadata: keyword search with YouTube's filters, channel videos, Shorts and streams, playlists, hashtags, video URLs. Each video's exact views, likes, comment count, publish date, description, tags, chapters, channel. No login.

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row_type

Optional

video (one video: charged as a video with its record, as a card row without) or summary (the free summary of a search, a channel tab, a playlist or a hashtag, with the walk's verdict).

Type:string | null

status

Optional

A video row: ok (charged) or the free reason it holds no video — not_found (YouTube has no such video; the player and the watch page agree), private, unavailable (removed or blocked; the source's own reason in note), failed (refused past the retries), invalid (the value names no video, channel, playlist, hashtag or search), not_read (maxItems, the charge limit or the time limit came first), duplicate (another input of the run delivered it), skipped (a video input in skipVideoIds or delivered by an earlier onlyNew run). A summary row: ok, no_results, not_found, failed, not_read, duplicate (the same channel as another input, read once).

Type:string | null

note

Optional

Why, in words: the reason of a free row, or what a charged row lacks and why (a live stream shows a chat, not a comment count; the watch page was not read).

Type:string | null

video_id

Optional

YouTube's 11-character video id; the de-duplication key (one row and one charge per video a run).

Type:string | null

url

Optional

The video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=, or /shorts/ for a Short.

Type:string | null

title

Optional

The creator's original title (the same under every language).

Type:string | null

title_localized

Optional

The title in the asked language when the creator translated it and it differs from the original; null otherwise.

Type:string | null

video_type

Optional

video, short or stream (a live, past or scheduled stream). From the record; on a card row from the list it came from (null on a video-search card, which cannot tell a Short).

Type:string | null

is_short

Optional

YouTube's own Shorts flag (isShortsEligible), never a duration rule (a 77-second video can be a Short); on a card row the list it came from.

Type:boolean | null

duration_seconds

Optional

Length in seconds; null for a live or scheduled stream.

Type:integer | null

duration

Optional

Length as YouTube writes it: 5:50, 1:14:56.

Type:string | null

view_count

Optional

Exact views (the record's viewCount; a live stream's total so far); on a card row the card's exact count when it shows one ("8,449 views"), null for a rounded one.

Type:integer | null

view_count_text

Optional

The view count as the watch page or the card writes it ("8,449 views", "445 watching now", "1.2K views").

Type:string | null

likes

Optional

Exact likes from the record (the like button rounds them); null when the creator hides them.

Type:integer | null

comment_count

Optional

The exact comment count: the comments panel's number, or the comments header ("3,285 Comments") where the panel rounds it ("3.2K") or shows none; null for comments turned off, a live chat or a members-only video, with the reason in note.

Type:integer | null

comments_turned_off

Optional

true when the watch page says "Comments are turned off"; false when a count was read; null when neither is shown.

Type:boolean | null

published_at

Optional

The publish date and time, UTC (the record's ISO date with its offset, converted).

Type:string | null

uploaded_at

Optional

The upload date and time, UTC (the record's own; equal to published_at for most videos).

Type:string | null

published_text

Optional

The date as the list shows it ("3 years ago", "Streamed 2 weeks ago") or the watch page's date text; never computed into a date.

Type:string | null

description

Optional

The full description (the record's own text, longer than the watch page's).

Type:string | null

description_snippet

Optional

The search card's description snippet, where the video came from a search.

Type:string | null

category

Optional

YouTube's category ("Science & Technology").

Type:string | null

location

Optional

The place the creator set above the title ("UNITED KINGDOM"), when one is shown.

Type:string | null

license

Optional

The license row of the watch page ("Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)"), when the video states one.

Type:string | null

thumbnail_url

Optional

The largest thumbnail the record lists (up to 1920 × 1080).

Type:string | null

thumbnails

Optional

Every thumbnail size the record lists: url, width, height.

Type:array | null

badges

Optional

The card's and the watch page's badges ("4K", "CC", "New", "LIVE", "Members only").

Type:array | null

channel_id

Optional

The channel's UC… id (a collaboration's primary channel).

Type:string | null

channel_name

Optional

The channel's name.

Type:string | null

channel_url

Optional

The channel on YouTube (its @handle URL, else /channel/).

Type:string | null

channel_handle

Optional

The channel's @handle.

Type:string | null

channel_subscribers

Optional

The subscriber count as YouTube rounds it ("34.6K subscribers" = 34,600; YouTube shows no exact count logged out); read in English only.

Type:integer | null

channel_subscribers_text

Optional

The subscriber count as YouTube writes it.

Type:string | null

channel_verified

Optional

The channel's verified badge (an artist's too).

Type:boolean | null

channel_avatar_url

Optional

The channel's avatar (null on a collaboration, whose dialog names several channels).

Type:string | null

collaborators

Optional

A collaboration's channels: channel id, name, @handle, subscribers text.

Type:array | null

is_live

Optional

true while the video is a live stream on air.

Type:boolean | null

live_status

Optional

none, live (on air), upcoming (scheduled) or was_live (a past stream).

Type:string | null

scheduled_start_at

Optional

A scheduled stream's or premiere's start, UTC.

Type:string | null

is_members_only

Optional

A video for the channel's paying members (served with its record, flagged).

Type:boolean | null

age_restricted

Optional

YouTube asks viewers to confirm their age (the record is served, flagged).

Type:boolean | null

is_family_safe

Optional

YouTube's family-safe flag.

Type:boolean | null

is_unlisted

Optional

YouTube's unlisted flag.

Type:boolean | null

unavailable_country_codes

Optional

The countries the video is blocked in: YouTube's 249 country codes minus the record's available list (empty for most videos).

Type:array | null

ads_shown

Optional

includeMonetization: YouTube served ad slots to a logged-out viewer of this video (a signal, not the channel's monetization status); null when not asked or not playable logged out.

Type:boolean | null

has_paid_promotion

Optional

includeMonetization: the creator declared a paid promotion (YouTube's "Includes paid promotion" label); null when not asked.

Type:boolean | null

views_per_hour

Optional

The exact views over the hours since publication, at read_at (derived).

Type:number | null

engagement_rate

Optional

(likes + comments) / views (derived; null without views or likes).

Type:number | null

channel_country

Optional

includeChannelDetails: the channel's country (ISO code) from its About.

Type:string | null

channel_joined_date

Optional

includeChannelDetails: the channel's joined date.

Type:string | null

channel_video_count

Optional

includeChannelDetails: the channel's exact video count.

Type:integer | null

channel_view_count

Optional

includeChannelDetails: the channel's exact total views.

Type:integer | null

details_read

Optional

true: the record and watch page were read (charged as a video); false: the list's card alone (charged as a card row).

Type:boolean | null

input

Optional

The input as you gave it (the keywords, URL, id, @handle or #tag).

Type:string | null

input_type

Optional

search, channel_videos, channel_shorts, channel_streams, playlist, hashtag, video, channel (a channel that could not be read), invalid.

Type:string | null

rank

Optional

The video's place in its list, in YouTube's order (the first appearance; repeats are dropped).

Type:integer | null

page

Optional

The list page the video was on (inside its slice for a search).

Type:integer | null

slice

Optional

A search's walk the video came from: main, or a duration slice of deepSearch (duration:under4, duration:4to20, duration:over20).

Type:string | null

source_url

Optional

The YouTube page the row was read from (the search with its filters, the channel tab, the playlist).

Type:string | null

country

Optional

The country the search was read from (the run's country).

Type:string | null

language

Optional

The interface language asked (hl).

Type:string | null

read_at

Optional

When the run read this row (UTC).

Type:string | null

verdict

Optional

A summary row: COMPLETE (the list's own end was reached), TRUNCATED (YouTube's own limit: a search ends at about 500 results, a hashtag shows one page), CAPPED (your maxResults or maxItems), PARTIAL (a refusal or the time limit stopped it).

Type:string | null

verdict_detail

Optional

The verdict's reason in words, with the counts.

Type:string | null

videos_delivered

Optional

A summary row: the videos delivered for this list.

Type:integer | null

videos_found

Optional

A summary row: the distinct videos the list showed (delivered, skipped or dropped).

Type:integer | null

pages

Optional

A summary row: the list pages read.

Type:integer | null

estimated_results

Optional

A search's summary row: YouTube's own estimatedResults on page 1 (an estimate, not what a walk can reach).

Type:integer | null

list_count

Optional

A playlist's summary row: the count in its header (it counts hidden videos too).

Type:integer | null

list_count_text

Optional

The list header's count as written ("253 videos", "298 videos", "47M videos • 5.6M channels").

Type:string | null

list_title

Optional

A playlist's or hashtag's title.

Type:string | null

slices

Optional

A search's summary row: each walk (main, the duration slices) with its pages, cards and how it ended.

Type:array | null

duplicates_skipped

Optional

A summary row: repeats inside the list and videos another input of the run took (each delivered once).

Type:integer | null

known_skipped

Optional

A summary row: videos an earlier run of the onlyNew memory delivered (skipped free).

Type:integer | null

filtered_out

Optional

A summary row: videos dropped by oldestPostDate or skipVideoIds (free).

Type:integer | null

failed_details

Optional

A summary row: listed videos whose record could not be read (free rows).

Type:integer | null

error

Optional

true on the one row a rejected input writes; absent on a result row

Type:boolean | null

code

Optional

why the input was rejected, as a code (INPUT REJECTED runs only)

Type:string | null

message

Optional

what to change, in words (INPUT REJECTED runs only)

Type:string | null

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