YouTube Video Details Lookup: Views, Likes & Tags by URL
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YouTube Video Details Lookup: Views, Likes & Tags by URL
Get the details of YouTube videos from a list of URLs or IDs: title, description, views, likes, comments, tags, category, duration, publish date, channel and Shorts flag. Monitor mode returns only videos whose numbers changed. $0.90 per 1,000 videos; private or deleted videos are free.
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Not affiliated with YouTube or Google. This actor reads public video pages only.
What does YouTube Video Details Lookup do?
YouTube Video Details Lookup takes a list of YouTube video URLs or IDs and returns one clean row per video: title, description, view count, like count, comment count, tags (keywords), category, duration in seconds, publish date, channel name, channel ID, thumbnail and flags for Shorts and live streams. It works like a small YouTube video details API: paste links from YouTube, a spreadsheet or another actor, run it, and download the table.
What makes it different is bulk URL-list lookup with a change-only monitor. Turn on monitor mode, schedule it daily, and each run returns only the videos whose views, likes or comments moved since the last run, with the exact change in viewDelta, likeDelta and commentDelta. Videos that did not change are skipped and cost nothing.
Already have keywords or a channel instead of video links? Our other YouTube actors cover those jobs: YouTube Search Scraper (keywords), YouTube Channel Scraper (every video of a channel), YouTube Shorts Scraper, YouTube Comments Scraper and YouTube Transcript Scraper. This one is for when you already know which videos you care about.
Why use it?
- Campaign reporting: track views and likes of sponsored or paid videos every day without opening each one.
- Influencer vetting: check real engagement (likes and comments per view) of a creator's recent uploads before you sign a deal.
- SEO and content research: pull the hidden tags and the category of competitor videos to see which keywords they target.
- Data enrichment: you have video IDs from a CRM, a sheet or another scraper and need the stats next to them.
- AI agents: one call turns a pasted link into structured facts about the video.
What data can it extract?
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
videoId, url | dQw4w9WgXcQ, watch or Shorts link |
title, description | full text of both |
channelId, channelName, channelUrl | UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw, Rick Astley |
publishedAt | 2009-10-24T23:57:33-07:00 |
durationSec | 213 |
viewCount, likeCount | exact numbers |
commentCount, commentCountText | 2400000, "2.4M" (YouTube shows comments rounded) |
tags | list of the uploader's keywords |
category | Music, Education, Gaming... |
thumbnailUrl | largest thumbnail |
isShort, isLive, wasLive, isUnlisted, ageRestricted | true / false |
viewDelta, likeDelta, commentDelta, isNew | change since the last run (monitor mode) |
dataSource | watch-page, or player-api when YouTube asked for a bot check and the lighter API answered |
scrapedAt | when the row was made |
How to look up YouTube video details
- Paste video links or IDs into YouTube videos, one per line. Any link shape works (watch, youtu.be, shorts, live, embed, mobile).
- Optional: switch on Monitor mode and give the state a name if you track several lists.
- Click Start and wait a few seconds per batch of videos.
- Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.
- For tracking, create a schedule that runs the actor daily with monitor mode on.
How much does it cost?
$0.90 per 1,000 videos ($0.0009 per video), plus a tiny $0.00005 start fee per run. Videos that are private, deleted, region-blocked or not valid IDs are returned as error rows and are free. In monitor mode, unchanged videos are free. The Apify free plan gives $5 of credit each month, which covers about 5,000 video lookups. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.
Input
Output
A video that cannot be read comes back as {"videoId": "...", "reason": "private", "error": "... Not charged."}. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.
Tips
- Mix long videos and Shorts freely;
isShorttells them apart. - Duplicates in the list are looked up once and charged once.
commentCountis the rounded number YouTube shows (for example 2.4M), so small comment changes on big videos may not show in monitor mode. Views and likes are exact.- Use one monitor state name per client or campaign so their histories stay apart.
FAQ
Do I need a YouTube API key or a login?
No. The actor reads the public video page, so there is no quota and no Google Cloud project to set up.
Which videos fail?
Private, deleted, terminated-channel and country-blocked videos, and anything that is not a video link (a channel or playlist link, for example). They are listed with a reason and are not charged. Now and then YouTube also answers a lookup with a bot check on every retry; that video comes back with reason blocked, free, and usually works on the next run.
How does monitor mode decide what changed?
It stores the last views, likes and comments of each video in a named key-value store in your account. A video is returned when any of the three differs from the stored value, or when it is new to the list.
Can it get dislikes?
No. YouTube stopped showing public dislike counts in 2021.
Disclaimer
This actor collects publicly available information about YouTube videos. You are responsible for using the data in line with YouTube's terms and the laws that apply to you.
