YouTube/Video
YouTube

YouTube Video Scraper API

Title, view count, likes, comments, caption tracks, related videos, channel info — extracted from any public YouTube video URL.

From $0.0030 per call·Median under 2s·One charge per call
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One call

Send a URL.
Get back JSON.

This endpoint takes one input: url. The response carries the parsed YouTube entity. Every public field, in a flat, predictable shape.

Request
cURL
curl https://hproxy.com/v1/scrape/youtube/video \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HPROXY_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ah_DFr8cw"}'
POST // 1 call · $0.0030 · <2s
Response200 OK
{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "scraper": "youtube-video-collect-by-url",
  "input": {
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ah_DFr8cw"
  },
  "data": {
    "id": "Y2Ah_DFr8cw",
    "thumbnail": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y2Ah_DFr8cw/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ah_DFr8cw",
    "publishDate": "2019-02-22T03:19:54-08:00",
    "type": "video",
    "title": "Inside the NBA: Chuck Trolls Jussie Smollett \"Do not commit crimes with checks, use cash!\"",
    "commentCountInt": 358,
    "likeCountInt": 4043,
    "viewCountInt": 372864,
    "publishDateText": "Feb 22, 2019",
    "channel": {
      "id": "UCWH3hing1Qb4LnkRfQdxsxQ",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@afroballer8906",
      "handle": "afroballer8906",
      "title": "Afroballer"
    },
    "durationFormatted": "00:05:48"
  },
  "records": 1,
  "costUsd": 0.01,
  "requestId": "run_3Qm8x2V7nKp4dWcF",
  "elapsedMs": 1840
}
What comes backparsed fields
YouTube Video
youtube_video
idstring
urlurl
handlestring
titlestring
One real call · one structured record
What you get

Structured data,
not a scraping project.

Full YouTube video metadata, captions, related videos.

Live JSON, returned in seconds
No login flows, no captcha solving
Pay-as-you-go, priced in dollars
Same API key across every scraper
Idempotent retries via X-Request-Id
REST. Works from any language
Built for

The work that
needs this data.

01

Lead generation

Pull YouTube signals at scale and enrich your CRM with public profile data. Clean, structured, ready to import.

02

Market research

Track competitors, audience movements, and trends across YouTube without standing up any scraping infrastructure.

03

AI training data

Feed predictable YouTube JSON straight into your model fine-tuning pipeline. Same schema every call.

More YouTube

The rest of the
YouTube hub.

See all 12 endpoints

YouTube Channel

/v1/scrape/youtube/channel

Channel profile, subscriber count, total videos, total views, social links.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Channel Videos

/v1/scrape/youtube/channel-videos

Paginated list of videos uploaded by a YouTube channel.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Channel Shorts

/v1/scrape/youtube/channel-shorts

List of short-form videos (Shorts) from a YouTube channel.

$0.0030
per call

YouTube Video Transcript

/v1/scrape/youtube/transcript

Captions / subtitles / transcript for a YouTube video.

$0.0300
per call
Try it

Two dollars,
first run.

Sign in with Google, drop $2 in the wallet, fire your first Video call against youtube.com. If it doesn’t do what you need, the balance is refundable for 24 hours.

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