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🎬 YouTube Video Formats Scraper - Extract 4K/HD/SD Formats + Stream Data 🚀

📽️ Overview

Need full technical details about YouTube videos? This actor reveals ALL available formats - from 144p to 4K, DASH streams, storyboard fragments, and hidden metadata!

⚡ Perfect for:

• Developers building video download tools
• Researchers analyzing video compression
• Archivists preserving highest quality copies

🕒 Average Runtime: 30-60 seconds per video
🌐 Supports geo-restricted content via proxies

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🔑 Key Features

🖼️ Multi-Format Support
✔️ Storyboard fragments (thumbnails grid)
✔️ DASH manifests (mp4/webm)
✔️ Audio-only/video-only streams

📊 Fragment-Level Details
✔️ Rows/columns configuration
✔️ Per-fragment URLs & durations
✔️ HD thumbnail previews

🎚️ Quality Options
✔️ 144p to 4K resolution data
✔️ Filesize estimates
✔️ Container formats (webm/mp4)

🔧 Technical Headers
✔️ Ready-to-use HTTP headers
✔️ User-Agent spoofing
✔️ Downloader chunk sizes

🌍 Proxy Ready
✔️ Residential proxies supported
✔️ Bypass regional restrictions

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Just add YouTube URLs:

{
  "video_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLqZtded_0&",
      "method": "GET"
    }
  ]
}

📌 Fields Explained

Field	Description
video_urls	📺 List of YouTube video URLs
method	⚙️ Always use GET

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📤 Output Example

Detailed format data for each video:

[
  {
    "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLqZtded_0&",
    "title": "Maher Zain & Harris J - Qalbi Fil Madinah...",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/2VLqZtded_0/maxresdefault.webp",
    "Video_Formats": [
      {
        "rows": 10,
        "columns": 10,
        "fragments": [
          {
            "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/sb/2VLqZtded_0/storyboard3_L0/default.jpg...",
            "duration": 247
          }
        ],
        "audio_ext": "none",
        "video_ext": "none",
        "http_headers": {
          "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)...",
          "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5"
        }
      },
      {
        "manifest_url": "https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_variant...",
        "quality": 9,
        "filesize": 47409955,
        "video_ext": "mp4",
        "container": "mp4_dash"
      }
    ]
  }
]

🧾 Output Includes:

• 🎞️ fragments: Thumbnail grid URLs + durations
• 📦 container: webm/mp4/m4a
• 📏 quality: 0 (lowest) to 11 (4K)
• 📁 filesize: Estimated download size
• 🌐 http_headers: Pre-configured download headers

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💡 Use Cases

🛠️ Video Downloader Developers - Get direct stream URLs
🔍 Digital Forensics - Analyze video compression patterns
📊 QoE Researchers - Study adaptive streaming setups
💾 Archivists - Preserve highest quality copies
🤖 Automation Tools - Bulk-export format details

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🛠️ How It Works

1️⃣ Add YouTube URLs
2️⃣ Actor extracts technical manifests
3️⃣ Parses storyboard/DASH data
4️⃣ Returns structured format info
5️⃣ Use direct URLs for download/analysis

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🔐 Privacy & Security

🛡️ No YouTube API Keys Needed
🌐 Proxy-Friendly (residential recommended)
🔒 GDPR Compliant data handling

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🧩 Related Tools

🔗 YouTube Transcript Scraper - Get subtitles/CC

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📧 Custom Requests?

Need additional fields like bitrate or codec info?

✉️ Email scrapearchitect@gmail.com for custom solutions!

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🚀 Try It Now!

Launch the YouTube Video Formats Scraper and unlock hidden video data

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