YouTube Video Metadata Bulk Lookup - Views, Likes, Tags

Paste a list of YouTube video links or IDs and get clean metadata for every video: title, views, likes, exact publish date, duration, tags, category, channel, description and thumbnail.

Made for enriching spreadsheets, CRMs and AI pipelines: one row per video, in the same order as your input, with no login, no YouTube API key and no quota.

Why this actor

• Any link format. watch?v=, youtu.be/, Shorts, embed and live links, or plain 11-character IDs. Duplicates are looked up and charged once.
• Exact data. Publish date with time, view and like counts, duration in seconds and h:mm:ss, tags and category come from YouTube's own web endpoints.
• Reliable. The same proven technique as our YouTube Channel Monitor, with automatic retries and Apify Proxy fallback when YouTube limits requests.
• Pay only for real videos. Private, deleted or invalid inputs are skipped and not charged (or returned with an error status if you want them).
• $0.40 per 1000 videos, no start fee.

Use cases

• Add views, likes and dates to a sheet of video links (influencer lists, campaign reports, competitor tracking)
• Check which videos in a list are still available
• Build datasets for AI and research: titles, tags, descriptions and stats
• Track how a list of videos performs: schedule the actor daily and compare view counts

Input

Field	Type	Description
videos	array	Video URLs or IDs, one per line.
maxItems	integer	Stop after this many videos. Default 1000.
includeDescription	boolean	Include the full description. Default true.
deduplicate	boolean	Look up each video once. Default true.
includeFailedRows	boolean	Add rows for unavailable videos (charged). Default false.

{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw",
    "9bZkp7q19f0"
  ]
}

Output

{
  "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "status": "ok",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video)",
  "channelName": "Rick Astley",
  "channelId": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "publishedAt": "2009-10-24T23:57:33Z",
  "durationSeconds": 213,
  "duration": "3:33",
  "viewCount": 1700000000,
  "likeCount": 18000000,
  "category": "Music",
  "tags": ["rick astley", "never gonna give you up"],
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg"
}

Download as Excel, CSV, JSON or Google Sheets, or connect with Make, Zapier, n8n or the Apify API. A run summary (found, unavailable, invalid) is saved as RUN_SUMMARY.

Pricing

$0.40 per 1000 videos. Unavailable and invalid inputs are free unless you turn on includeFailedRows. Use maxItems to cap a run.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube API key? No. There is no daily quota either.

How many videos per run? Thousands. Videos are looked up in parallel.

Why is a like count missing? Some channels hide likes; then likeCount is empty.

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Legal

The actor reads only public video data that YouTube shows to any visitor. Use it in line with YouTube's terms and the laws of your country.