Youtube Scraper - Video & Shorts Downloader

Youtube scraper & Video downloader

Extract youtube video or shorts content and interactions informations.

Collect channel data.

Download video file:

• video and audio (merged)
• video only
• audio only
• no download (just content data)

Ouput example

1{
2    {
3  "selected_type": "bestaudio/best",
4  "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE",
5  "id": "YLslsZuEaNE",
6  "title": "1 Minute Video - Doggie",
7  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YLslsZuEaNE/maxresdefault.jpg",
8  "description": "",
9  "channel_id": "UCKVkl32kptCTb74JawBA5sA",
10  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVkl32kptCTb74JawBA5sA",
11  "duration": 60,
12  "view_count": 388749,
13  "average_rating": null,
14  "age_limit": 0,
15  "webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE",
16  "categories": [
17    "People & Blogs"
18  ],
19  "tags": [],
20  "playable_in_embed": true,
21  "live_status": "not_live",
22  "media_type": null,
23  "release_timestamp": "",
24  "_format_sort_fields": [
25    "quality",
26    "res",
27    "fps",
28    "hdr:12",
29    "source",
30    "vcodec",
31    "channels",
32    "acodec",
33    "lang",
34    "proto"
35  ],
36  "subtitles": {},
37  "comment_count": 1900,
38  "chapters": null,
39  "heatmap": [
40    {
41      "start_time": 0,
42      "end_time": 0.61,
43      "value": 0.9112997319086061
44    },
45    {
46      "start_time": 0.61,
47      "end_time": 1.22,
48      "value": 0.8229064238868358
49    },
50    //truncated for example
51  ],
52  "like_count": 6133,
53  "channel": "Khai LoOn",
54  "channel_follower_count": 8270,
55  "uploader": "Khai LoOn",
56  "uploader_id": "@khailoon93",
57  "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@khailoon93",
58  "upload_date": "20171211",
59  "timestamp": "2017-12-11 15:16:19",
60  "availability": "public",
61  "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE",
62  "webpage_url_basename": "watch",
63  "webpage_url_domain": "youtube.com",
64  "extractor": "youtube",
65  "extractor_key": "Youtube",
66  "playlist": null,
67  "playlist_index": null,
68  "display_id": "YLslsZuEaNE",
69  "fulltitle": "1 Minute Video - Doggie",
70  "duration_string": "1:00",
71  "release_year": null,
72  "is_live": false,
73  "was_live": false,
74  "requested_subtitles": null,
75  "_has_drm": null,
76  "epoch": "2025-03-26 15:39:39",
77  "requested_downloads": [
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80      "filesize": 1144744,
81      "format_id": "251",
82      "format_note": "medium",
83      "source_preference": -1,
84      "audio_channels": 2,
85      "quality": 3,
86      "has_drm": false,
87      "tbr": 152.477,
88      "filesize_approx": 1144740,
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90      "language_preference": -1,
91      "ext": "webm",
92      "vcodec": "none",
93      "acodec": "opus",
94      "container": "webm_dash",
95      "downloader_options": {
96        "http_chunk_size": 10485760
97      },
98      "protocol": "https",
99      "audio_ext": "webm",
100      "video_ext": "none",
101      "vbr": 0,
102      "abr": 152.477,
103      "resolution": "audio only",
104      "http_headers": {
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106        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
107        "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
108        "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"
109      },
110      "format": "251 - audio only (medium)",
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112      "filename": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm",
113      "__postprocessors": [],
114      "__real_download": true,
115      "__finaldir": "/usr/src/app",
116      "filepath": "/usr/src/app/2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm",
117      "__write_download_archive": true
118    }
119  ],
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121  "filesize": 1144744,
122  "format_id": "251",
123  "format_note": "medium",
124  "source_preference": -1,
125  "fps": null,
126  "audio_channels": 2,
127  "height": null,
128  "quality": 3,
129  "has_drm": false,
130  "tbr": 152.477,
131  "filesize_approx": 1144740,
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134  "language": null,
135  "language_preference": -1,
136  "preference": null,
137  "ext": "webm",
138  "vcodec": "none",
139  "acodec": "opus",
140  "dynamic_range": null,
141  "container": "webm_dash",
142  "downloader_options": {
143    "http_chunk_size": 10485760
144  },
145  "protocol": "https",
146  "audio_ext": "webm",
147  "video_ext": "none",
148  "vbr": 0,
149  "abr": 152.477,
150  "resolution": "audio only",
151  "aspect_ratio": null,
152  "http_headers": {
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154    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
155    "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
156    "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"
157  },
158  "format": "251 - audio only (medium)",
159  "_type": "video",
160  "record_id": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4",
161  "key_value_stores_id": "JCrLsdYcfSvnZJk4C",
162  "apify_download_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/JCrLsdYcfSvnZJk4C/records/2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4"
163}
164}