YouTube API endpoint
Retrieve video metadata & captions
Returns title, description, stats, and captions for a YouTube video ID.
GETapiKey3 credits/requestyoutube.videoResponseDoc
/youtube/video/{id}Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Enum | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | path | string | Yes | YouTube video ID (11-char code) | ||
| x-api-key | header | string | Yes | API key required |
Authentication
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Billing
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
- Credit cost
- 3 credits/request
- Charged response
- Successful 2xx responses
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
Catalog quality warnings
- missing example for required path param: id
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Missing or invalid *id* parameter | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal server error | #/definitions/app.Response |
Example response
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"title": "Sam Altman on AGI, GPT-5, and what’s next — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 1",
"description": "On the first episode of the OpenAI Podcast, Sam Altman joins host Andrew Mayne to talk about the future of AI: from GPT-5 and AGI to Proj...",
"duration": 2423,
"published_at": "2025-06-18T07:59:20-07:00",
"author": "OpenAI",
"author_channel_id": "UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/youtube.videoResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | youtube.VideoDetail | No | ||||
| data.channel_id | string | No | UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A | |||
| data.channel_title | string | No | OpenAI | |||
| data.comments_count | integer | No | 1400 | |||
| data.description | string | No | On the first episode of the OpenAI Podcast... | |||
| data.dislikes_count | integer | No | 0 | may be hidden | ||
| data.duration_seconds | number | No | 2423 | length in seconds | ||
| data.id | string | No | YbJOTdZBX1g | |||
| data.likes_count | integer | No | 11000 | |||
| data.published_at | string | No | 2025-06-18T07:59:20-07:00 | |||
| data.title | string | No | Sam Altman on AGI, GPT-5, and what’s next — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 1 | |||
| data.views_count | integer | No | 460176 | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Example request
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/video/user-1" -H "x-api-key: <api-key>"
TypeScript fetch
const url = new URL("https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/youtube/video/user-1");
const headers = new Headers();
headers.set("x-api-key", "<api-key>");
const response = await fetch(url, {
method: "GET",
headers,
});
const payload = await response.json();