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🎥 YouTube Video Scraper - Full Metadata + Engagement Analytics 🚀

🌟 Overview

Need complete YouTube data extraction? This actor scrapes:
✅ Regular Videos
✅ YouTube Shorts
✅ YouTube Kids Content
✅ Full metadata, analytics, and technical specs

📊 Perfect for content analysis, competitor research, and child-safe video monitoring across all YouTube platforms!

⚡ Average Runtime: 1-2 minutes per video
🔄 Supports bulk URL processing

🔥 Key Features

📺 Multi-Platform Support

✔️ Regular YouTube videos
✔️ Vertical Shorts content
✔️ YouTube Kids filtered videos
✔️ Channel/playlist compatibility

📈 Comprehensive Metadata

✔️ Views, likes, comments count
✔️ Upload dates & timestamps
✔️ Channel verification status
✔️ 10M+ channel follower tracking

🎚️ Advanced Analytics

✔️ Video chapters with timestamps
✔️ Heatmap data integration
✔️ Format technical specs (codec, resolution, FPS)
✔️ Engagement rate calculations

🧒 YouTube Kids Specific

✔️ Age-restricted content detection
✔️ Child-safe category filtering
✔️ Parental control metrics

🌐 Proxy Ready

✔️ Residential proxies supported
✔️ Bypass geo-restrictions

⚙️ Input Configuration

{
"video_urls":[
{
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMe1FH4CHE",
"method":"GET"
}
]
}

📌 Fields Explained

📤 Output Example

Complete video analysis:

{
"original_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMe1FH4CHE",
"title":"Learn HTML – Full Tutorial for Beginners",
"thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/kUMe1FH4CHE/maxresdefault.webp",
"duration":"4h 7m 29s",
"channel":"freeCodeCamp.org",
"description":"Learn HTML in this complete course for beginners...",
"description_links":{
"social":[],
"blog":[],
"sponsor":[],
"others":[
"https://www.youtube.com/davegrayteachescode",
"https://github.com/gitdagray/html_course",
"https://scrimba.com/freeCodeCamp-HTML",
"https://www.freecodecamp.org",
"https://freecodecamp.org/news"
]
},
"upload_date":"08-03-2022",
"automatic_captions":"",
"heatmap":"",
"requested_formats":"",
"subtitles":"",
"view_count":3508428,
"comment_count":2100,
"like_count":65235,
"chapters":[
{
"start_time":0,
"title":"Intro",
"end_time":55
},
{
"start_time":55,
"title":"Chapter 1 - Getting Started",
"end_time":1213
},
 ...
],
"channel_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ",
"uploader_url":"https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp",
"categories":["Education"],
"language":"en",
"resolution":"1920x1080",
"fps":30,
"aspect_ratio":1.78,
"protocol":"https+https",
"format_note":"1080p+medium"
}

🧾 Output Includes:

• 📅 Upload dates & timestamps
• 🔖 Categories & tags
• 📜 Full description with detected links
• 📉 Heatmap data references
• 📺 Embeddability status
• 🌍 Availability regions

💡 Use Cases

🔍 Researchers - Track video trends across platforms
📱 App Developers - Build video recommendation engines
👪 Parents - Monitor YouTube Kids content
📈 Marketers - Analyze competitor video performance
💾 Archivists - Preserve video metadata

🛠️ How It Works

1️⃣ Add YouTube URLs (videos/shorts/kids)
2️⃣ Actor detects content type automatically
3️⃣ Extracts 50+ data points per video
4️⃣ Returns structured JSON with:

• 🎚️ Technical specifications
• 📈 Engagement metrics
• 🧩 Content segmentation
  5️⃣ Export ready for analysis

🔐 Privacy & Security

🛡️ GDPR-compliant data handling
🌐 Proxy support for anonymous scraping
🔒 No YouTube API keys required

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📧 Custom Solutions?

Need kids content filters or special heatmap analysis?

✉️ Contact scrapearchitect@gmail.com

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