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$19.99/month + usage

Youtube Metadata Scraper

🎥 youtube-metadata-scraper extracts titles, descriptions, tags, views, likes, comments, thumbnails, duration, publish date & channel stats at scale. 🔍 Perfect for SEO, competitor analysis & 📊 analytics. ⚡ Fast, reliable, API-ready. 🚀 Elevate your YouTube strategy.

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You can access the Youtube Metadata Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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Youtube Metadata Scraper OpenAPI definition

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

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By defining machine-readable API specifications, OpenAPI allows AI models like GPTs to understand and use varied data sources, improving accuracy. This accelerates development, reduces errors, and provides context-aware responses, making OpenAPI a core component for AI applications.

You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Youtube Metadata Scraper from the options below:

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