YouTube Video Details: Views, Likes, Channel & Subscribers

You already have the link. What you need is the numbers: views, likes, comments, how long it is, when it went up, and how big the channel is. Paste video links or IDs and get one clean row per video. Missing or private videos get a clear status row and are never charged.

What you get

• Title, description, URL, thumbnail
• Views, likes, comments count
• Duration (clock + seconds) and publish date
• isLive and isEmbeddable when the provider returns them
• Subtitle language list (language, auto-generated, translatable)
• Channel name, id, URL, logo and subscriber count
• A status on every row: ok, not_found, error or invalid_input

Input

Field	What it does
videos	YouTube links (watch, youtu.be, Shorts, embed, live) or 11-character video IDs (up to 1,000)
country	Country edition (name or 2-letter code). Defaults to United States
language	Language code (e.g. en, de). Defaults to the country's main language
maxVideos	Hard cap for this run (default 100, max 1,000). Free Apify plans are limited to 10

{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
    "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "kJQP7kiw5Fk"
  ]
}

Output (one row per video)

{
  "type": "video", "status": "ok", "videoId": "jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw",
  "title": "Me at the zoo", "channelName": "jawed",
  "channelId": "UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QobU6STFB0P71PMvOGN5A",
  "subscribers": 6730000, "views": 447874551, "likes": 20130394, "comments": 10646255,
  "duration": "00:19", "durationSeconds": 19, "isLive": false,
  "subtitleLanguages": [{"language": "en", "autoGenerated": false, "translatable": true}],
  "charged": true
}

A missing or private video:

{ "type": "video", "status": "not_found", "videoId": "xxxxxxxxxxx",
  "error": "Video not found, private, or unavailable", "charged": false }

Pricing

• $0.005 per video with details delivered (event transcript, titled "Video details" on this Actor).
• $0.005 per run start fee (apify-actor-start).
• Not charged: missing or private videos, provider errors, invalid inputs, duplicates.
• Set a maximum charge per run and the Actor stops there. Apify free plan: up to 10 videos per run.

Use from AI agents (MCP)

AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can run this Actor through Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). The agent can look up the Actor, read its input schema, run it and read the results. Runs use your own Apify account and are charged at the prices on this page.

• Actor name: vncntlabs/youtube-video-details
• Server URL with only this tool: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=vncntlabs/youtube-video-details. The default https://mcp.apify.com also works.
• Claude (desktop app or claude.ai): Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, paste the server URL, then sign in to Apify.
• ChatGPT: turn on Developer mode, then Settings > Apps & Connectors > Create, paste the server URL and choose OAuth.
• Cursor: add the server to mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=vncntlabs/youtube-video-details" } } }

Example prompt: "Use the Apify Actor vncntlabs/youtube-video-details to get views, likes and subscriber count for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw and https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ."

To cap the cost of an agent's run, it can pass maxTotalChargeUsd in the run options.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube login? No. Details come from a licensed SERP data API. What about private or deleted videos? You get a free not_found row. Nothing is charged. How fast? A handful of videos usually finishes in under a minute. Larger batches use a standard priority queue with a 60-second hedge so a slow queue doesn't fail Apify's daily quality check. Can I pull a whole channel's videos? Not in this version. Pass the video links or IDs you already have (for example from our YouTube Search Scraper). A full channel listing needs a licensed channel endpoint we don't have yet. Does this return the transcript? No. Use YouTube Transcript Scraper for captions.

Public YouTube video metadata delivered through a licensed SERP data API. Counts change over time. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google. Questions: hello@vncntlabs.com