Social Media

YouTube Metadata

Get structured metadata for a YouTube video — title, channel, view/like/comment counts, duration, description, categories, and tags — as JSON.

POST/api/v1/youtube/metadata

Authorizations

Authorizationstringheaderrequired

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your Scavio API key (e.g. Bearer sk_live_your_key).

Body

application/json

video_idstringrequired

The YouTube video id (11 characters).

Example: n61ULEU7CO0

Request

from scavio import ScavioClient

client = ScavioClient(api_key="sk_live_your_key")
results = client.youtube.metadata(video_id="n61ULEU7CO0")
print(results)

Response

"age_limit": 0,

"channel_id": "UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow",

"channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow",

"comment_count": 10000,

"description": "🎼 | Listen on Spotify, Apple music and more → https://fanlink.tv/BestofLofi2021 The new Lofi Girl compilation “Best of 2021” is out now 🙌 This compilation cont…",

"duration": 22258,

"is_live": false,

"like_count": 491301,

"title": "Best of lofi hip hop 2021 ✨ [beats to relax/study to]",

"upload_date": 20211231,

"uploader": "Lofi Girl",

"uploader_id": "@LofiGirl",

"uploader_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@LofiGirl",

"video_id": "n61ULEU7CO0",

"view_count": 55696608

"response_time": 2000,

"credits_used": 1,

"credits_remaining": 4755

}