YouTube Video Info
The YouTube Video Information API is a powerful and comprehensive service that extracts detailed metadata from YouTube videos and channels without requiring official YouTube API access.
Endpoint
GET
/api/youtube_external_video
Parameters
video_id
string
Required
YouTube video ID
Request Examples
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.scrappa.co/api/youtube/video?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
$response = Http::timeout(30)
->withHeaders(['x-api-key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'])
->get('https://app.scrappa.co/api/youtube/video?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ');
if ($response->successful()) {
echo $response->body();
} else {
echo "Error: " . $response->status();
}const options = {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
}
};
fetch('https://app.scrappa.co/api/youtube/video?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ', options)
.then(response => {
if (!response.ok) {
throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
}
return response.text();
})
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
uri = URI.parse("https://app.scrappa.co/api/youtube/video?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
begin
response = http.request(request)
puts response.body
rescue => e
puts "Error: #{e.message}"
endimport http.client
import json
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("app.scrappa.co")
headers = {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
}
try:
conn.request("GET", "/api/youtube/video?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ", headers=headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
finally:
conn.close()import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.Response;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ApiExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://app.scrappa.co/api/youtube/video?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ")
.addHeader("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")
.build();
try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
if (response.isSuccessful()) {
System.out.println(response.body().string());
} else {
System.out.println("Error: " + response.code());
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
}Response Schema
[
{
"title": "JSON Results",
"description": "<p>Example of the response.</p>",
"json_sample": {
"data": {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZIASl9q90s",
"title": "Beat Neymar, Win $500,000",
"channel": {
"id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
"name": "MrBeast",
"verified": false,
"thumbnails": [
{
"url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/nxYrc_1_2f77DoBadyxMTmv7ZpRZapHR5jbuYe7PlPd5cIRJxtNNEYyOC0ZsxaDyJJzXrnJiuDE=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"width": 48,
"height": 48
},
{
"url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/nxYrc_1_2f77DoBadyxMTmv7ZpRZapHR5jbuYe7PlPd5cIRJxtNNEYyOC0ZsxaDyJJzXrnJiuDE=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"width": 88,
"height": 88
},
{
"url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/nxYrc_1_2f77DoBadyxMTmv7ZpRZapHR5jbuYe7PlPd5cIRJxtNNEYyOC0ZsxaDyJJzXrnJiuDE=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj",
"width": 176,
"height": 176
}
],
"subscriber_count": "403M",
"owner_profile_url": null
},
"is_live": false,
"category": "Entertainment",
"duration": "27:53",
"keywords": [],
"video_id": "DZIASl9q90s",
"is_private": false,
"like_count": 3170561,
"thumbnails": {
"high": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/DZIASl9q90s/hqdefault.jpg",
"maxres": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/DZIASl9q90s/maxresdefault.jpg",
"medium": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/DZIASl9q90s/mqdefault.jpg",
"default": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/DZIASl9q90s/default.jpg",
"standard": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/DZIASl9q90s/sddefault.jpg"
},
"view_count": 115018716,
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"is_unlisted": false,
"upload_date": "2025-05-24T09:00:01-07:00",
"publish_date": "2025-05-24T09:00:01-07:00",
"canonical_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZIASl9q90s",
"is_family_safe": true,
"keywords_count": 0,
"length_seconds": 1673,
"is_live_content": false,
"has_ypc_metadata": null,
"is_shorts_eligible": false,
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"available_countries_count": 249
},
"success": true,
"extracted_at": "2025-06-08T20:59:57.745571Z"
}
}
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