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🎥 YouTube Video Scraper - Full Metadata + Engagement Analytics 🚀

🌟 Overview

Need complete YouTube data extraction? This actor scrapes:
✅ Regular Videos
✅ YouTube Shorts
✅ YouTube Kids Content
✅ Full metadata, analytics, and technical specs

📊 Perfect for content analysis, competitor research, and child-safe video monitoring across all YouTube platforms!

⚡ Average Runtime: 1-2 minutes per video
🔄 Supports bulk URL processing

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🔥 Key Features

📺 Multi-Platform Support

✔️ Regular YouTube videos
✔️ Vertical Shorts content
✔️ YouTube Kids filtered videos
✔️ Channel/playlist compatibility

📈 Comprehensive Metadata

✔️ Views, likes, comments count
✔️ Upload dates & timestamps
✔️ Channel verification status
✔️ 10M+ channel follower tracking

🎚️ Advanced Analytics

✔️ Video chapters with timestamps
✔️ Heatmap data integration
✔️ Format technical specs (codec, resolution, FPS)
✔️ Engagement rate calculations

🧒 YouTube Kids Specific

✔️ Age-restricted content detection
✔️ Child-safe category filtering
✔️ Parental control metrics

🌐 Proxy Ready

✔️ Residential proxies supported
✔️ Bypass geo-restrictions

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⚙️ Input Configuration

{
  "video_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMe1FH4CHE",
      "method": "GET"
    }
  ]
}

📌 Fields Explained

Field	Description
video_urls	📹 List of YouTube URLs (Supports videos/shorts/kids content)
method	⚙️ Always use GET

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📤 Output Example

Complete video analysis:

{
    "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMe1FH4CHE",
    "title": "Learn HTML – Full Tutorial for Beginners",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/kUMe1FH4CHE/maxresdefault.webp",
    "duration": "4h 7m 29s",
    "channel": "freeCodeCamp.org",
    "description": "Learn HTML in this complete course for beginners...",
    "description_links": {
      "social": [],
      "blog": [],
      "sponsor": [],
      "others": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/davegrayteachescode",
        "https://github.com/gitdagray/html_course",
        "https://scrimba.com/freeCodeCamp-HTML",
        "https://www.freecodecamp.org",
        "https://freecodecamp.org/news"
      ]
    },
    "upload_date": "08-03-2022",
    "automatic_captions": "",
    "heatmap": "",
    "requested_formats": "",
    "subtitles": "",
    "view_count": 3508428,
    "comment_count": 2100,
    "like_count": 65235,
    "chapters": [
      {
        "start_time": 0,
        "title": "Intro",
        "end_time": 55
      },
      {
        "start_time": 55,
        "title": "Chapter 1 - Getting Started",
        "end_time": 1213
      },
      ...
    ],
    "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ",
    "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp",
    "categories": ["Education"],
    "language": "en",
    "resolution": "1920x1080",
    "fps": 30,
    "aspect_ratio": 1.78,
    "protocol": "https+https",
    "format_note": "1080p+medium"
  }

🧾 Output Includes:

• 📅 Upload dates & timestamps
• 🔖 Categories & tags
• 📜 Full description with detected links
• 📉 Heatmap data references
• 📺 Embeddability status
• 🌍 Availability regions

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💡 Use Cases

🔍 Researchers - Track video trends across platforms
📱 App Developers - Build video recommendation engines
👪 Parents - Monitor YouTube Kids content
📈 Marketers - Analyze competitor video performance
💾 Archivists - Preserve video metadata

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🛠️ How It Works

1️⃣ Add YouTube URLs (videos/shorts/kids)
2️⃣ Actor detects content type automatically
3️⃣ Extracts 50+ data points per video
4️⃣ Returns structured JSON with:

• 🎚️ Technical specifications
• 📈 Engagement metrics
• 🧩 Content segmentation
  5️⃣ Export ready for analysis

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🔐 Privacy & Security

🛡️ GDPR-compliant data handling
🌐 Proxy support for anonymous scraping
🔒 No YouTube API keys required

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📧 Custom Solutions?

Need kids content filters or special heatmap analysis?

✉️ Contact scrapearchitect@gmail.com

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