Youtube Scraper - Video & Shorts Downloader

YouTube Scraper & Video Downloader YouTube Scraper & Video Downloader allows you to extract detailed video and channel data from YouTube and download video or audio content. Ideal for content research, analytics, or archiving YouTube videos and Shorts. ## 🔹 Features #### Video Data Extraction Title, description, video ID, thumbnail, duration, categories, tags View count, like count, comment count, heatmap data Upload date, uploader, channel ID, and follower count Video availability and embed status Live status detection #### Channel Information Channel URL and ID Uploader username and profile link Total follower/subscriber count #### Download Options Video + audio (merged) Video only Audio only Data extraction only (no download) #### Advanced Metadata Subtitles and chapters Audio/video codec, bitrate, format, container, protocol HTTP headers for direct downloads DRM detection ## Ouput example json { { "selected_type": "bestaudio/best", "input": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE", "id": "YLslsZuEaNE", "title": "1 Minute Video - Doggie", "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YLslsZuEaNE/maxresdefault.jpg", "description": "", "channel_id": "UCKVkl32kptCTb74JawBA5sA", "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVkl32kptCTb74JawBA5sA", "duration": 60, "view_count": 388749, "average_rating": null, "age_limit": 0, "webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE", "categories": [ "People & Blogs" ], "tags": [], "playable_in_embed": true, "live_status": "not_live", "media_type": null, "release_timestamp": "", "_format_sort_fields": [ "quality", "res", "fps", "hdr:12", "source", "vcodec", "channels", "acodec", "lang", "proto" ], "subtitles": {}, "comment_count": 1900, "chapters": null, "heatmap": [ { "start_time": 0, "end_time": 0.61, "value": 0.9112997319086061 }, { "start_time": 0.61, "end_time": 1.22, "value": 0.8229064238868358 }, //truncated for example ], "like_count": 6133, "channel": "Khai LoOn", "channel_follower_count": 8270, "uploader": "Khai LoOn", "uploader_id": "@khailoon93", "uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@khailoon93", "upload_date": "20171211", "timestamp": "2017-12-11 15:16:19", "availability": "public", "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslsZuEaNE", "webpage_url_basename": "watch", "webpage_url_domain": "youtube.com", "extractor": "youtube", "extractor_key": "Youtube", "playlist": null, "playlist_index": null, "display_id": "YLslsZuEaNE", "fulltitle": "1 Minute Video - Doggie", "duration_string": "1:00", "release_year": null, "is_live": false, "was_live": false, "requested_subtitles": null, "_has_drm": null, "epoch": "2025-03-26 15:39:39", "requested_downloads": [ { "asr": 48000, "filesize": 1144744, "format_id": "251", "format_note": "medium", "source_preference": -1, "audio_channels": 2, "quality": 3, "has_drm": false, "tbr": 152.477, "filesize_approx": 1144740, "url": "https://rr2---sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1743025175&ei=tx_kZ_D4CN6b2_gPnqXtmQc&ip=2601%3A282%3A2100%3Abf70%3A652a%3Acd60%3A1cb1%3A8dc&id=o-AHuxGbW7psnTsKgUzqOR8QxSnkpV7jqogH_gxPa8jAZp&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1743003575%2C&mh=FH&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe%2Csn-qxoedn7k&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=35&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=5178750&bui=AccgBcOV6VdEbR7ga4foE2c-jI8JAv6VLj9QgU6_rwFGf7vioHEci9dwHS31HD-OcOQ3_ZKsANvdPdrq&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=1PKG0nuQgM2-aqt_Vg2IzLAQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=1144744&dur=60.061&lmt=1724602835968781&mt=1743003208&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=5432434&n=2u_rgv5DzgoD7w&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRgIhAJIAA02r5niE4V4En6H6TATEWF_eZ-yX7fC-VeIeQqjcAiEA8yeA4LkbS06_zeYYll-A9B_dohrpzHxEhoa962azmwc%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AFVRHeAwRQIhAJJdZM_QUsq7OaAq5w7ZFufCUBpQ0LLELac7-kpVA8mUAiAviM3s5UYMO8OaEUpKxuP9XZyV7w8UPkb6o1TmHXWt6Q%3D%3D", "language_preference": -1, "ext": "webm", "vcodec": "none", "acodec": "opus", "container": "webm_dash", "downloader_options": { "http_chunk_size": 10485760 }, "protocol": "https", "audio_ext": "webm", "video_ext": "none", "vbr": 0, "abr": 152.477, "resolution": "audio only", "http_headers": { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.18 Safari/537.36", "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5", "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate" }, "format": "251 - audio only (medium)", "_filename": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm", "filename": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm", "__postprocessors": [], "__real_download": true, "__finaldir": "/usr/src/app", "filepath": "/usr/src/app/2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4.webm", "__write_download_archive": true } ], "asr": 48000, "filesize": 1144744, "format_id": "251", "format_note": "medium", "source_preference": -1, "fps": null, "audio_channels": 2, "height": null, "quality": 3, "has_drm": false, "tbr": 152.477, "filesize_approx": 1144740, "url": "https://rr2---sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1743025175&ei=tx_kZ_D4CN6b2_gPnqXtmQc&ip=2601%3A282%3A2100%3Abf70%3A652a%3Acd60%3A1cb1%3A8dc&id=o-AHuxGbW7psnTsKgUzqOR8QxSnkpV7jqogH_gxPa8jAZp&itag=251&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&met=1743003575%2C&mh=FH&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-bvvbaxivnuxqjvhj5nu-qxoe%2Csn-qxoedn7k&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=2&pl=35&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=5178750&bui=AccgBcOV6VdEbR7ga4foE2c-jI8JAv6VLj9QgU6_rwFGf7vioHEci9dwHS31HD-OcOQ3_ZKsANvdPdrq&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fwebm&ns=1PKG0nuQgM2-aqt_Vg2IzLAQ&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=1144744&dur=60.061&lmt=1724602835968781&mt=1743003208&fvip=4&keepalive=yes&lmw=1&c=TVHTML5&sefc=1&txp=5432434&n=2u_rgv5DzgoD7w&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJfQdSswRgIhAJIAA02r5niE4V4En6H6TATEWF_eZ-yX7fC-VeIeQqjcAiEA8yeA4LkbS06_zeYYll-A9B_dohrpzHxEhoa962azmwc%3D&lsparams=met%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AFVRHeAwRQIhAJJdZM_QUsq7OaAq5w7ZFufCUBpQ0LLELac7-kpVA8mUAiAviM3s5UYMO8OaEUpKxuP9XZyV7w8UPkb6o1TmHXWt6Q%3D%3D", "width": null, "language": null, "language_preference": -1, "preference": null, "ext": "webm", "vcodec": "none", "acodec": "opus", "dynamic_range": null, "container": "webm_dash", "downloader_options": { "http_chunk_size": 10485760 }, "protocol": "https", "audio_ext": "webm", "video_ext": "none", "vbr": 0, "abr": 152.477, "resolution": "audio only", "aspect_ratio": null, "http_headers": { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.18 Safari/537.36", "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5", "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate" }, "format": "251 - audio only (medium)", "_type": "video", "record_id": "2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4", "key_value_stores_id": "JCrLsdYcfSvnZJk4C", "apify_download_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/JCrLsdYcfSvnZJk4C/records/2434f1a0-29c3-40db-b881-c861ec60e6d4" } } ## 🔹 Benefits ✅ Access detailed YouTube video and channel analytics ✅ Download video or audio content in preferred format ✅ Supports Shorts and standard videos ✅ Track engagement with likes, comments, and heatmaps ✅ Extract subtitles and chapters ## 🛟 SUPPORT Share your runs with the developer team and create issues on error to help us improve actor quality. 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