Social Media

YouTube Video Details

Get structured details for a YouTube video — title, channel, view count, length, description, keywords, chapters, and available captions — as JSON. The legacy /api/v1/youtube/metadata path and youtube.metadata() method remain as deprecated aliases of this endpoint.

POST/api/v1/youtube/video

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), or a full watch URL (the id is extracted server-side).

Example: n61ULEU7CO0

Request

from scavio import ScavioClient

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

Response

"video_id": "n61ULEU7CO0",

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

"author": "Lofi Girl",

"channel_id": "UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow",

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

"published_at": "2021-12-31",

"description": "Listen on Spotify, Apple Music and more. The new Lofi Girl compilation Best of 2021 is out now.",

"length_seconds": 22258,

"view_count": 55696608,

"thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n61ULEU7CO0/maxresdefault.jpg",

"playability_status": "OK",

"chapters": [],

"response_time": 1204,

"credits_used": 1,

"credits_remaining": 4755

}