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Get YouTube video

Get a single YouTube video's metadata from a watch URL or video id. Returns videoId, title, author, channelId, channelUrl, viewCount, likeCount, lengthSeconds, isLive, isPrivate, isUnlisted, isFamilySafe, category, keywords, thumbnails, uploadDate, publishDate, description, canonicalUrl. likeCount is null when the uploader hides likes, and canonicalUrl may point to a sibling video that YouTube picked as the indexable winner.

Input

video required

A YouTube video URL (watch?v=, youtu.be/, /shorts/, /embed/) or a bare 11-char video id.

Output

title required
videoId required
author optional
isLive optional
category optional
keywords optional
channelId optional
isPrivate optional
likeCount optional

null when the uploader hides likes.

viewCount optional
channelUrl optional
isUnlisted optional
thumbnails optional
uploadDate optional
description optional
publishDate optional
canonicalUrl optional

SEO canonical watch URL; may point to a sibling video the site elected as indexable winner.

isFamilySafe optional
lengthSeconds optional

FAQ

Get a single YouTube video's metadata from a watch URL or video id. Returns videoId, title, author, channelId, channelUrl, viewCount, likeCount, lengthSeconds, isLive, isPrivate, isUnlisted, isFamilySafe, category, keywords, thumbnails, uploadDate, publishDate, description, canonicalUrl. likeCount is null when the uploader hides likes, and canonicalUrl may point to a sibling video that YouTube picked as the indexable winner.
Required: video.
It returns title, author, isLive, videoId, category, keywords, channelId, isPrivate, likeCount, viewCount, channelUrl, isUnlisted, thumbnails, uploadDate, description, publishDate, canonicalUrl, isFamilySafe, lengthSeconds.
No. It only uses pages of youtube.com that are reachable without signing in.
Unknown: its author has not declared whether it changes anything on youtube.com, so treat it as if it could.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/youtube.com/get_video, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/youtube.com/get_video
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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