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

{
    {
  "selected_type": "bestaudio/best",
  "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE",
  "id": "YLslsZuEaNE",
  "title": "1 Minute Video - Doggie",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YLslsZuEaNE/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "description": "",
  "channel_id": "UCKVkl32kptCTb74JawBA5sA",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVkl32kptCTb74JawBA5sA",
  "duration": 60,
  "view_count": 388749,
  "average_rating": null,
  "age_limit": 0,
  "webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE",
  "categories": [
    "People & Blogs"
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "playable_in_embed": true,
  "live_status": "not_live",
  "media_type": null,
  "release_timestamp": "",
  "_format_sort_fields": [
    "quality",
    "res",
    "fps",
    "hdr:12",
    "source",
    "vcodec",
    "channels",
    "acodec",
    "lang",
    "proto"
  ],
  "subtitles": {},
  "comment_count": 1900,
  "chapters": null,
  "heatmap": [
    {
      "start_time": 0,
      "end_time": 0.61,
      "value": 0.9112997319086061
    },
    {
      "start_time": 0.61,
      "end_time": 1.22,
      "value": 0.8229064238868358
    },
    //truncated for example
  ],
  "like_count": 6133,
  "channel": "Khai LoOn",
  "channel_follower_count": 8270,
  "uploader": "Khai LoOn",
  "uploader_id": "@khailoon93",
  "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@khailoon93",
  "upload_date": "20171211",
  "timestamp": "2017-12-11 15:16:19",
  "availability": "public",
  "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE",
  "webpage_url_basename": "watch",
  "webpage_url_domain": "youtube.com",
  "extractor": "youtube",
  "extractor_key": "Youtube",
  "playlist": null,
  "playlist_index": null,
  "display_id": "YLslsZuEaNE",
  "fulltitle": "1 Minute Video - Doggie",
  "duration_string": "1:00",
  "release_year": null,
  "is_live": false,
  "was_live": false,
  "requested_subtitles": null,
  "_has_drm": null,
  "epoch": "2025-03-26 15:39:39",
  "requested_downloads": [
    {
      "asr": 48000,
      "filesize": 1144744,
      "format_id": "251",
      "format_note": "medium",
      "source_preference": -1,
      "audio_channels": 2,
      "quality": 3,
      "has_drm": false,
      "tbr": 152.477,
      "filesize_approx": 1144740,
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      "language_preference": -1,
      "ext": "webm",
      "vcodec": "none",
      "acodec": "opus",
      "container": "webm_dash",
      "downloader_options": {
        "http_chunk_size": 10485760
      },
      "protocol": "https",
      "audio_ext": "webm",
      "video_ext": "none",
      "vbr": 0,
      "abr": 152.477,
      "resolution": "audio only",
      "http_headers": {
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.18 Safari/537.36",
        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
        "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
        "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"
      },
      "format": "251 - audio only (medium)",
      "_filename": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm",
      "filename": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm",
      "__postprocessors": [],
      "__real_download": true,
      "__finaldir": "/usr/src/app",
      "filepath": "/usr/src/app/2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm",
      "__write_download_archive": true
    }
  ],
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  "filesize": 1144744,
  "format_id": "251",
  "format_note": "medium",
  "source_preference": -1,
  "fps": null,
  "audio_channels": 2,
  "height": null,
  "quality": 3,
  "has_drm": false,
  "tbr": 152.477,
  "filesize_approx": 1144740,
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  "width": null,
  "language": null,
  "language_preference": -1,
  "preference": null,
  "ext": "webm",
  "vcodec": "none",
  "acodec": "opus",
  "dynamic_range": null,
  "container": "webm_dash",
  "downloader_options": {
    "http_chunk_size": 10485760
  },
  "protocol": "https",
  "audio_ext": "webm",
  "video_ext": "none",
  "vbr": 0,
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  "resolution": "audio only",
  "aspect_ratio": null,
  "http_headers": {
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    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
    "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate"
  },
  "format": "251 - audio only (medium)",
  "_type": "video",
  "record_id": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4",
  "key_value_stores_id": "JCrLsdYcfSvnZJk4C",
  "apify_download_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/JCrLsdYcfSvnZJk4C/records/2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4"
}
}