API Reference
YouTube Video
Get metadata for a YouTube video including title, description, view count, likes, duration, tags, and channel info.
Use this to get a video's title, description, channel, publish date, duration, and view, like, and comment counts. Useful for tracking video performance and enriching video lists.
2 credits per request.
Quick example
curl -G "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/v1/youtube_video" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WEBSCRAPERAPI_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "video_id=hHQlcnubuFI" \
--data-urlencode "output=json"video_id takes a video ID or a full YouTube URL. Pass the returned channel_id to YouTube Channel to get details on the channel.
Full API reference
Query Parameters
video_id*string
YouTube video ID or URL.
Length
1 <= lengthoutput?|
Output format. Defaults to json.
timeout_ms?|
Request timeout in milliseconds.
Response Body
application/json
application/json
curl -X GET "https://api.webscraperapi.ai/v1/youtube_video?video_id=string"null{
"error": {
"code": "string",
"message": "string",
"details": {}
}
}