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$4.45 / 1,000 scraped descriptions

YouTube Description Extractor

Extract full public YouTube video descriptions from watch, youtu.be, and Shorts URLs. Export titles, thumbnails, links, hashtags, mentions, channel data, and publish dates in a clean dataset.

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$4.45 / 1,000 scraped descriptions

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Developer

Maxime Dupré

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You can access the YouTube Description Extractor programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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YouTube Description Extractor for Video SEO OpenAPI definition

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You can download the OpenAPI definitions for YouTube Description Extractor from the options below:

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