YouTube

Video/Short Details

Fetches full details for a YouTube video or short, including title, description, thumbnail, view count (views), like count (likes), comment count, publish date, duration, genre, keywords, chapters, collaborators, and available caption tracks (subtitles/captions). isPaidPromotion is true when YouTube marks the video as including paid promotion and false when it does not. Also returns related recommended videos in watchNextVideos and channel info for the uploader. When YouTube exposes its public Most replayed graph, most_replayed contains normalized graph buckets in markers and YouTube's highlighted ranges in ranges. The field is null when the graph is not available. YouTube says the graph may be unavailable when the channel has active strikes, the content is potentially inappropriate, the video is too new or has too few views, or its systems deem the video ineligible for another reason. YouTube does not publish fixed age or view-count thresholds. Age-restricted videos return 403 with message: "This video is age restricted" because Scrape Creators only uses the public logged-out YouTube source.

get/v1/youtube/video

Query parameters

urlstring required

YouTube video or short URL

languagestring

Preferred response language (mapped to Accept-Language header; not guaranteed due to YouTube localization behavior). 2 letter language code, ie 'en', 'es', 'fr' etc.

cache_max_age'1d' | '3d' | '7d' | '14d' | '30d'

If we have a response in the cache that is this many days old or newer, return the cached response (0 credits, with "cached": true and a "cached_at" timestamp). Otherwise, scrape a live result (1 credit). See the Caching page for details.

Response

Successful response

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