YouTube Region Availability Checker
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from $2.99 / 1,000 region availabilities
YouTube Region Availability Checker
Check public YouTube video playability in selected ISO 3166-1 country contexts and return per-country availability evidence, restrictions, and video metadata without inferring untested coverage.
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from $2.99 / 1,000 region availabilities
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YouTube Public Region Restriction Checker
Compare the playability status returned by public YouTube watch pages for a bounded list of country contexts. The actor requests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...&hl=en&gl=XX, parses the embedded public player response, and records only countries that returned an observable player status.
Dataset
Each video record contains the submitted reference, video/channel metadata, description, keywords, duration, views, thumbnails, captions and streaming-format counts when the public response exposes them, plus per-country playability observations. It also includes requested/tested/failed country counts, accessible and blocked lists, percentages, baseline status, evidence mode, and source provenance.
Country evidence is labeled explicitly:
country-matched Apify Proxy IP plus public watch-page gl parametermeans an Apify country route was requested for that country.Apify Proxy IP plus public watch-page gl parameter; country match not independently verifiedmeans a proxy was used without a country-specific route.public watch-page gl parameter only; request IP country not controlledmeans only the public page's locale parameter was varied.
These are point-in-time observations, not proof of permanent global licensing or availability. A mixed result means the tested public responses differed; it does not infer untested countries.
Blocked or failed country requests are emitted as exactly four diagnostic fields: url, error, errorCode, and scrapedAt. Per-run counts and proxy state are written to OUTPUT.
Input
| Field | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
videoUrls | required | Public YouTube watch, Shorts, embed, youtu.be URLs, or 11-character IDs. |
countryCodes | US, GB, DE, IN, JP | ISO alpha-2 country contexts, 1–20. |
maxItems | 10 | Maximum unique videos, 1–50. |
proxyConfiguration | none | Optional account-authorized Apify Proxy. Country-specific routes are used when the configuration requests Apify Proxy. |
enableProxyFallback | true | After a direct page failure, try one ordinary Apify Proxy route. |
includeDiagnostics | true | Keep bounded country-failure diagnostics. |
requestDelayMs / requestTimeoutSecs | 250 / 60 | Pacing and bounded page timeout. |
Example
Safety and limits
- Uses a fixed ordinary User-Agent and public watch-page HTML only.
- Does not call
youtubeiendpoints, rotate client identities, spoof fingerprints, patch browser stealth, bypass CAPTCHA/login, or store cookies, credentials, proxy URLs, or request identity fields in dataset records. - YouTube may return a generic or blocked response even when a video is public. The actor preserves that limitation in diagnostics and OUTPUT rather than treating missing data as unrestricted or unavailable.
- Proxy usage consumes account resources; a country route is evidence of the requested route, not an independently measured IP assertion.
Local verification
