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datacortex/youtube-metadata-scraper

YouTube Metadata Scraper

Look up videos by ID or URL. Export title, views, likes, channel, description, duration, and upload date.

Run on Apify

When to use it

Use this when you already have video IDs — from search, a spreadsheet, or a channel list — and need the watch-page record (likes, description, ISO upload date).

Versus the sibling Actors

One video per input, not a search. YouTube Search Scraper is cheaper per row because one query yields many results. Do not use metadata to discover videos.

Example input

{
  "videoIds": [
    "tIgIF5lve8U",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIgIF5lve8U"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}

Example output

{
  "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up",
  "videoId": "tIgIF5lve8U",
  "views": 1600000000,
  "likes": 18000000,
  "publishedAt": "2009-10-25"
}

MCP pin

Agents call this through Apify MCP. Running it needs an Apify token.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=datacortex/youtube-metadata-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Pricing

$5.00 per 1,000 videos + $0.001 per run. Confirm on the Apify pricing tab if you are budgeting a large run.

Limitations

  • Does not search YouTube, download files, or pull transcripts.
  • Private, deleted, or age-gated videos write an error row instead of a fake record.

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Built and maintained by Irfan Ali, senior AI engineer. Open to senior AI IC roles — Bengaluru or remote. Get in touch.