YouTube Music Album Scraper

Overview

This Apify actor scrapes detailed album and track information from YouTube Music. Provide a valid album URL, and it returns structured JSON data containing metadata, song lists, play counts, and direct links.

Key Features

• Album Metadata: Extracts the album name, artist, release year, total duration, track count, description, and high-resolution cover art URL.
• Track Details: Retrieves every song on the album, including title, unique ID, direct YouTube Music link, play count, and duration.
• Structured Output: Returns a clean, predictable JSON array for easy integration and parsing.
• Simple Input: Requires only a single YouTube Music album URL to run.

How to Use

1. Prepare the actor's input as a JSON object containing the target album URL.
2. Run the actor (via Apify Console, API, or SDK).
3. The actor will fetch the page, extract the data, and return the structured result in its dataset.

Input

The input is a JSON object with one required property.

{
  "url": "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nmFt9mwNL3JZGzuMRNfgiimbL3fsbjpfo"
}

Output

The actor outputs an array of objects, one for each track on the album. Each object contains the song's details and a nested album_data object with full album metadata.

Example Output:

[
  {
    "id": "q392mSz4VeY",
    "name": "Wake Up",
    "music_url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=q392mSz4VeY&list=OLAK5uy_mAWpL2_R3tGLfDvxDyydWDnpdyANSoJJU",
    "plays": "17M",
    "duration": "2:47",
    "album_data": {
      "id": "OLAK5uy_mAWpL2_R3tGLfDvxDyydWDnpdyANSoJJU",
      "name": "LOOM",
      "url": "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAWpL2_R3tGLfDvxDyydWDnpdyANSoJJU",
      "image": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HXl1-8EFmkheZcYoPiFgDe1HCeaBaZDWY4yxjJsaZqSasbompkowFh7UC7vxIIARnXh_5uTBLAkHs_qz=w544-h544-l90-rj",
      "release_year": "2024",
      "number_of_songs": "10",
      "album_songs_duration": "31 minutes",
      "description": "Loom is the sixth studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons...",
      "artist_name": "Imagine Dragons",
      "artist_url": "https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC0aXrjVxG5pZr99v77wZdPQ"
    }
  }
]

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