YouTube Video Scraper

YouTube Video Scraper returns title, views, likes, channel details, and metadata from any public video URL — paste links and export.

🔥 $1.98 per 1,000 rows on Apify · up to 500 URLs per run · integration guide

Overview

Look up any public YouTube video from a watch or Shorts URL

Each dataset row matches the Social Fetch API envelope (data, meta, and lookupStatus where applicable). Platform API usage is included in the per-row Apify price.

New to Social Fetch on Apify? The integration guide has screenshots, the actor catalog, and troubleshooting.

🚀 Quick start

1. Fill in the Input below — sample values are pre-filled.
2. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
3. Open the Dataset tab and export as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📦 Fields in each row

Video

• Title, URL, thumbnail, duration, and publish date
• Views, likes, and comment counts
• Channel handle, name, and profile URL

⚙️ Input options

• videoUrls — public YouTube watch or Shorts links
• language — optional language code for localized metadata

💡 Try it

Input

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ah_DFr8cw"
  ]
}

Output

{
  "data": {
    "lookupStatus": "found",
    "video": {
      "id": "Y2Ah_DFr8cw",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ah_DFr8cw",
      "title": "Example video",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y2Ah_DFr8cw/maxresdefault.jpg"
    },
    "channel": {
      "handle": "afroballer8906",
      "displayName": "Afroballer"
    },
    "metrics": {
      "views": 372864,
      "likes": 4043
    },
    "relatedVideos": [
      {
        "id": "lzDTK5kEdkM",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzDTK5kEdkM",
        "title": "Charles Barkley and Shaq FUNNIEST MOMENTS",
        "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lzDTK5kEdkM/hqdefault.jpg",
        "publishedAt": "2025-02-16T19:25:39.493Z",
        "publishedTimeText": "11 months ago",
        "viewCount": 1800000,
        "viewCountText": "1.8M views",
        "durationSeconds": 1081,
        "durationText": "18:01",
        "channel": {
          "displayName": "SkyHooked",
          "handle": "SkyHooked",
          "profileUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@SkyHooked",
          "platformUserId": "UCrX8GD5f_O-Cu5Y2vQuSSvw"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "req_01example",
    "version": "v1"
  }
}

Rows may include data.lookupStatus (found, not_found, or private). Completed lookups are billed, including not_found.

🎯 Good for

• 📌 Pull engagement metrics for a list of video links
• 🗓️ Feed dashboards with batch video metadata

💵 How we compare

	Cost per 1,000 lookups
YouTube Video Scraper	$1.98
Typical YouTube scrapers on Apify	$10.00

Roughly 80% less than many YouTube scrapers on the Store — structured API data behind every row.

🧩 Related actors

• TikTok Video Scraper — TikTok video metadata by URL

🔗 Wire it up

Works with Make, Zapier, n8n, Apify webhooks, and scheduled runs.

❓ Common questions

• Do I need a Social Fetch API key? No — your Apify token is enough. Never paste an sfk_ key into Actor input.
• Why was I charged for not_found? The lookup completed, but YouTube did not return that profile, video, or post. That still counts as a billable dataset row.
• What URLs work? Standard YouTube watch links (youtube.com/watch?v=...) or Shorts URLs.

📚 More on Social Fetch

• Apify integration guide — quick start and actor catalog
• API reference — same endpoints with your sfk_ key
• support@socialfetch.dev