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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

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.

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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For issues or feature requests: thenetaji@proton.me