Youtube Scraper - Video & Shorts Downloader

YouTube Scraper & Video Downloader

YouTube Scraper & Video Downloader allows you to extract detailed video and channel data from YouTube and download video or audio content.

Ideal for content research, analytics, or archiving YouTube videos and Shorts.

🔹 Features

Video Data Extraction

Title, description, video ID, thumbnail, duration, categories, tags

View count, like count, comment count, heatmap data

Upload date, uploader, channel ID, and follower count

Video availability and embed status

Live status detection

Channel Information

Channel URL and ID

Uploader username and profile link

Total follower/subscriber count

Download Options

Video + audio (merged)

Video only

Audio only

Data extraction only (no download)

Advanced Metadata

Subtitles and chapters

Audio/video codec, bitrate, format, container, protocol

HTTP headers for direct downloads

DRM detection

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,
      "url": "https://rr2---sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1743025175&ei=tx_kZ_D4CN6b2_gPnqXtmQc&ip=2601%3A282%3A2100%3Abf70%3A652a%3Acd60%3A1cb1%3A8dc&id=o-AHuxGbW7psnTsKgUzqOR8QxSnkpV7jqogH_gxPa8jAZp&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1743003575%2C&mh=FH&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe%2Csn-qxoedn7k&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=35&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=5178750&bui=AccgBcOV6VdEbR7ga4foE2c-jI8JAv6VLj9QgU6_rwFGf7vioHEci9dwHS31HD-OcOQ3_ZKsANvdPdrq&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=1PKG0nuQgM2-aqt_Vg2IzLAQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=1144744&dur=60.061&lmt=1724602835968781&mt=1743003208&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=5432434&n=2u_rgv5DzgoD7w&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRgIhAJIAA02r5niE4V4En6H6TATEWF_eZ-yX7fC-VeIeQqjcAiEA8yeA4LkbS06_zeYYll-A9B_dohrpzHxEhoa962azmwc%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AFVRHeAwRQIhAJJdZM_QUsq7OaAq5w7ZFufCUBpQ0LLELac7-kpVA8mUAiAviM3s5UYMO8OaEUpKxuP9XZyV7w8UPkb6o1TmHXWt6Q%3D%3D",
      "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
    }
  ],
  "asr": 48000,
  "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,
  "url": "https://rr2---sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1743025175&ei=tx_kZ_D4CN6b2_gPnqXtmQc&ip=2601%3A282%3A2100%3Abf70%3A652a%3Acd60%3A1cb1%3A8dc&id=o-AHuxGbW7psnTsKgUzqOR8QxSnkpV7jqogH_gxPa8jAZp&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1743003575%2C&mh=FH&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe%2Csn-qxoedn7k&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=35&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=5178750&bui=AccgBcOV6VdEbR7ga4foE2c-jI8JAv6VLj9QgU6_rwFGf7vioHEci9dwHS31HD-OcOQ3_ZKsANvdPdrq&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=1PKG0nuQgM2-aqt_Vg2IzLAQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=1144744&dur=60.061&lmt=1724602835968781&mt=1743003208&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=5432434&n=2u_rgv5DzgoD7w&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRgIhAJIAA02r5niE4V4En6H6TATEWF_eZ-yX7fC-VeIeQqjcAiEA8yeA4LkbS06_zeYYll-A9B_dohrpzHxEhoa962azmwc%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AFVRHeAwRQIhAJJdZM_QUsq7OaAq5w7ZFufCUBpQ0LLELac7-kpVA8mUAiAviM3s5UYMO8OaEUpKxuP9XZyV7w8UPkb6o1TmHXWt6Q%3D%3D",
  "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,
  "abr": 152.477,
  "resolution": "audio only",
  "aspect_ratio": null,
  "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)",
  "_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"
}
}

🔹 Benefits

✅ Access detailed YouTube video and channel analytics

✅ Download video or audio content in preferred format

✅ Supports Shorts and standard videos

✅ Track engagement with likes, comments, and heatmaps

✅ Extract subtitles and chapters

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