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🎬 YouTube Video Formats Scraper - Extract 4K/HD/SD Formats + Stream Data 🚀

📽️ Overview

Need full technical details about YouTube videos? This actor reveals ALL available formats - from 144p to 4K, DASH streams, storyboard fragments, and hidden metadata!

⚡ Perfect for:

• Developers building video download tools
• Researchers analyzing video compression
• Archivists preserving highest quality copies

🕒 Average Runtime: 30-60 seconds per video
🌐 Supports geo-restricted content via proxies

🔑 Key Features

🖼️ Multi-Format Support
✔️ Storyboard fragments (thumbnails grid)
✔️ DASH manifests (mp4/webm)
✔️ Audio-only/video-only streams

📊 Fragment-Level Details
✔️ Rows/columns configuration
✔️ Per-fragment URLs & durations
✔️ HD thumbnail previews

🎚️ Quality Options
✔️ 144p to 4K resolution data
✔️ Filesize estimates
✔️ Container formats (webm/mp4)

🔧 Technical Headers
✔️ Ready-to-use HTTP headers
✔️ User-Agent spoofing
✔️ Downloader chunk sizes

🌍 Proxy Ready
✔️ Residential proxies supported
✔️ Bypass regional restrictions

⚙️ Input Configuration

Just add YouTube URLs:

{
"video_urls":[
{
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLqZtded_0&",
"method":"GET"
}
]
}

📌 Fields Explained

📤 Output Example

Detailed format data for each video:

[
{
"original_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLqZtded_0&",
"title":"Maher Zain & Harris J - Qalbi Fil Madinah...",
"thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/2VLqZtded_0/maxresdefault.webp",
"Video_Formats":[
{
"rows":10,
"columns":10,
"fragments":[
{
"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/sb/2VLqZtded_0/storyboard3_L0/default.jpg...",
"duration":247
}
],
"audio_ext":"none",
"video_ext":"none",
"http_headers":{
"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)...",
"Accept-Language":"en-us,en;q=0.5"
}
},
{
"manifest_url":"https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_variant...",
"quality":9,
"filesize":47409955,
"video_ext":"mp4",
"container":"mp4_dash"
}
]
}
]

🧾 Output Includes:

• 🎞️ fragments: Thumbnail grid URLs + durations
• 📦 container: webm/mp4/m4a
• 📏 quality: 0 (lowest) to 11 (4K)
• 📁 filesize: Estimated download size
• 🌐 http_headers: Pre-configured download headers

💡 Use Cases

🛠️ Video Downloader Developers - Get direct stream URLs
🔍 Digital Forensics - Analyze video compression patterns
📊 QoE Researchers - Study adaptive streaming setups
💾 Archivists - Preserve highest quality copies
🤖 Automation Tools - Bulk-export format details

🛠️ How It Works

1️⃣ Add YouTube URLs
2️⃣ Actor extracts technical manifests
3️⃣ Parses storyboard/DASH data
4️⃣ Returns structured format info
5️⃣ Use direct URLs for download/analysis

🔐 Privacy & Security

🛡️ No YouTube API Keys Needed
🌐 Proxy-Friendly (residential recommended)
🔒 GDPR Compliant data handling

🧩 Related Tools

🔗 YouTube Transcript Scraper - Get subtitles/CC

📧 Custom Requests?

Need additional fields like bitrate or codec info?

✉️ Email scrapearchitect@gmail.com for custom solutions!

🚀 Try It Now!

Launch the YouTube Video Formats Scraper and unlock hidden video data