YouTube video or Short details API
Title, description, stats, duration, channel, thumbnails, chapters, caption tracks and whether YouTube marks it as paid promotion.
- Cost
- 1 credit
- Cached repeats
- 0 creditssend max_age_days, results kept 30 days
- Failed requests
- 0 credits
- Status
- Betashape may still gain fields
is_sponsored, null when YouTube's player could not be read for this request. Views, likes and the publish time are exact; the comment and subscriber counts are the abbreviated figures YouTube shows logged out, with the display text in extra. Works for Shorts and lives.
You send one of url or id.
Request
Send your key in the x-api-key header.
curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video" \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode 'id=QP5Fs3AYuWE'import os
import requests
params = {
"id": "QP5Fs3AYuWE",
}
res = requests.get(
"https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video",
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
params=params,
timeout=60,
)
body = res.json()
if body["ok"]:
print(body["data"])
else:
print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
id: "QP5Fs3AYuWE",
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (body.ok) {
console.log(body.data);
} else {
console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}{
"nodes": [
{
"name": "SocialScrape YouTube video or Short details",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"typeVersion": 4.2,
"position": [
0,
0
],
"parameters": {
"method": "GET",
"url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/youtube/video",
"sendQuery": true,
"queryParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "id",
"value": "QP5Fs3AYuWE"
}
]
},
"sendHeaders": true,
"headerParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "x-api-key",
"value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
}
]
}
}
}
],
"connections": {}
}Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | url | one of | Video or Short URL (watch, youtu.be, shorts, live, embed). |
id | string | one of | 11-character video id. Also accepted as videoId, video_id. |
language | string | Preferred response language, 2 letters (en, es, fr). Not guaranteed: YouTube localises on its own. Also accepted as lang. |
Every request also accepts trim, raw and max_age_days.
Response
Sample from a recorded response, shortened. Values are public data, not yours.
{
"ok": true,
"credits_charged": 1,
"credits_remaining": 4999,
"cached": false,
"cached_at": null,
"request_id": "req_d4fe60a3d3a459bd87016778",
"data": {
"object": "post",
"platform": "youtube",
"id": "QP5Fs3AYuWE",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QP5Fs3AYuWE",
"type": "short",
"author": {
"id": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
"handle": "NASA",
"name": "NASA",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA",
"avatar_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/eIf5fNPcIcj9ig-wZBeq4stFy1lgjWTW1nLT5dYlFkHZprZ03QBiMcbpwNMB6XSBjrSFGtAGQg=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"verified": true
},
"title": "2026 Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain",
"text": "On Aug. 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse passed over Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal.\n\nWatch th...",
"published_at": "2026-08-12T19:08:21Z",
"duration_seconds": 35,
"language": null,
"hashtags": null,
"mentions": null,
"stats": {
"views": 199507,
"likes": 5927,
"comments": null,
"shares": null,
"saves": null,
"dislikes": null
},
"media": {
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QP5Fs3AYuWE/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEoCIAKENAF8quKqQMcGADwAQH4AbYIgAKAD4oCDAgAEAEYZSBlKGUwDw==&rs=AOn4CLAT9U1JJD_l2_VOJY3iTy0h7-Tq1w",
"video_url": null,
"audio_url": null,
"image_urls": null,
"width": null,
"height": null
},
"song": null,
"location": null,
"is_pinned": null,
"is_sponsored": false,
"extra": {
"caption_tracks": [
{
"auto_generated": true,
"language": "ar",
"name": "Arabic (auto-generated)",
"translatable": true
},
{
"auto_generated": true,
"language": "bn",
"name": "Bangla (auto-generated)",
"translatable": true
},
{
"auto_generated": true,
"language": "nl-NL",
"name": "Dutch (Netherlands) (auto-generated)",
"translatable": true
}
],
"category": "Science & Technology",
"channel_subscribers": 15100000,
"channel_subscribers_approximate": true,
"channel_subscribers_text": "15.1M subscribers",
"is_family_safe": true
}
},
"cursor": null,
"has_more": null
}Fields
One Post in data.
A field the platform does not give is null, never made up. Extra platform details are in extra.
| Field | Type | Always | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
object | "post" | ||
platform | Platform | yes | |
id | string | yes | |
url | string or null | ||
type | "video" or "short" or "reel" or "image" or "carousel" or "story" or "live" or "clip" or "text" or "link" or "tweet" or "pin" or "community_post" or "episode" or "unknown" | ||
author | Author or null | ||
title | string or null | ||
text | string or null | ||
published_at | string (ISO 8601 date-time) or null | ||
duration_seconds | number or null | ||
language | string or null | ||
hashtags | string[] or null | ||
mentions | string[] or null | ||
stats | Stats |
Show the other 6 fields
Full field list in the reference for this endpoint and the data models. Errors are listed under Errors.
Questions
Which errors can it return?
invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.
Is there an SDK call for it?
The preview Python client has client.youtube.video(...) and the TypeScript client client.youtube.video(). Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.
Can an AI agent call it?
Yes. The MCP server reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.