YouTube Video Scraper

Scrape YouTube video details — title, views, likes, description, channel info, keywords, hashtags, related videos, end screen videos, and more — without an API key or quota limits.

Features

• Accepts YouTube URLs (watch, shorts, youtu.be) or bare video IDs
• Extracts full video metadata: title, views, likes, duration, description, category, publish date
• Returns channel info including subscriber count and profile URL
• Returns hashtags from the video
• Returns up to 20 related videos (sidebar recommendations)
• Returns up to 12 end screen videos (with length and view count)
• Returns available countries list and embed URL
• No YouTube Data API key required — no quota limits
• Supports bulk input (scrape multiple videos in one run)

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
inputs	array of strings	✅	YouTube video URLs or video IDs to scrape

Accepted input formats

• Full URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
• Short URL: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
• Shorts URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dQw4w9WgXcQ
• Bare video ID: dQw4w9WgXcQ

Input example

{
    "inputs": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0",
        "dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    ]
}

Output

Each scraped video produces one dataset item.

Field	Type	Description
videoId	string	YouTube video ID
url	string	Full video URL
title	string	Video title
description	string	Full video description
duration	integer	Duration in seconds
viewCount	integer	Total view count
likeCount	integer	Total like count
publishDate	string	ISO 8601 publish date
uploadDate	string	ISO 8601 upload date
category	string	YouTube category (e.g. Music, Gaming)
isLive	boolean	Whether this is/was a live stream
isUnlisted	boolean	Whether the video is unlisted
isFamilySafe	boolean	Family safe flag
isShortsEligible	boolean	Whether the video is eligible for Shorts
keywords	array	Video tags/keywords
hashtags	array	Hashtags used in the video (e.g. ["#RickAstley"])
availableCountries	array	List of country codes where the video is available
embedUrl	string	Embeddable iframe URL
thumbnail	string	URL of the highest-resolution thumbnail
thumbnails	array	All available thumbnail objects
channel.id	string	Channel ID
channel.name	string	Channel display name
channel.url	string	Channel URL
channel.subscribers	string	Subscriber count (e.g. "4.5M subscribers")
relatedVideos	array	Up to 20 sidebar recommendation stubs
endScreenVideos	array	Up to 12 end screen videos with full metadata

Output example

{
    "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
    "description": "The official video for \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" by Rick Astley...",
    "duration": 213,
    "viewCount": 1776755136,
    "likeCount": 19122540,
    "publishDate": "2009-10-24T23:57:33-07:00",
    "uploadDate": "2009-10-24T23:57:33-07:00",
    "category": "Music",
    "isLive": false,
    "isUnlisted": false,
    "isFamilySafe": true,
    "isShortsEligible": false,
    "keywords": ["rick astley", "Never Gonna Give You Up", "nggyu"],
    "hashtags": ["#RickAstley", "#NeverGonnaGiveYouUp", "#OfficialMusicVideo"],
    "availableCountries": ["US", "GB", "IN"],
    "embedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg",
    "thumbnails": [
        { "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/default.jpg", "width": 120, "height": 90 },
        { "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg", "width": 480, "height": 360 }
    ],
    "channel": {
        "id": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
        "name": "Rick Astley",
        "url": "http://www.youtube.com/@RickAstleyYT",
        "subscribers": "4.5M subscribers"
    },
    "relatedVideos": [
        {
            "videoId": "h_D3VFfhvs4",
            "title": "Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Official Video)",
            "channel": "Michael Jackson",
            "views": "1.2B views",
            "publishedAt": "15 years ago"
        }
    ],
    "endScreenVideos": [
        {
            "videoId": "vulK0wDSc24",
            "title": "(fan-voted) top 100 most recognizable songs of all-time",
            "channel": "boogiehead",
            "views": "11M views",
            "lengthText": "14:38",
            "lengthSeconds": 878,
            "publishedAt": "3 years ago"
        }
    ]
}

Use Cases

• Content research — Analyze video performance metrics across competitors or niches
• Trend monitoring — Track view/like counts over time by scheduling runs
• SEO analysis — Extract keywords, hashtags, and descriptions for YouTube SEO research
• Dataset building — Build training datasets with video metadata for ML projects
• Channel analysis — Aggregate stats across a channel's video library
• Related video mapping — Map recommendation graphs for a set of seed videos
• End screen analysis — Discover what videos creators promote at the end of their content

Notes

• Videos that are private, age-restricted, or deleted will be skipped
• likeCount may be 0 for videos where YouTube has hidden the count
• relatedVideos and endScreenVideos reflect YouTube's state at scrape time and vary by region
• duration is in seconds
• availableCountries can have up to 249 entries for globally available videos

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Contact

For issues or feature requests: thenetaji@proton.me