YouTube

With Web Scraper API, you can extract and parse various types of YouTube data. Below is an overview of all supported YouTube source values.

Source	Description
youtube_search	Up to 20 search results for a search term of your choice.
youtube_search_max	Up to 700 search results for a search term of your choice.
youtube_download	Audio/video content of a YouTube video of your choice.
youtube_transcript	The transcript of a YouTube video of your choice.
youtube_metadata	The metadata of a YouTube video of your choice.

Getting started

Create your API user credentials: sign up for a free trial or purchase the product in the Oxylabs dashboard to create your API user credentials (USERNAME and PASSWORD).

If you need more than one API user for your account, please contact our customer support or message our 24/7 live chat support.

Request sample

cURL

curl 'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \
--user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
        "source": "youtube_search",
        "query": "how to make a website"
    }'

Python

import requests
from pprint import pprint

# Structure payload.
payload = {
    'source': 'youtube_search',
    'query': 'how to make a website'
}

# Get response.
response = requests.request(
    'POST',
    'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries',
    auth=('user', 'pass1'),
    json=payload,
)

# Print the JSON response with the result.
pprint(response.json())

Node.js

const https = require("https");

const username = "USERNAME";
const password = "PASSWORD";
const body = {
  source: "youtube_search",
  query: "how to make a website"
};
const options = {
  hostname: "realtime.oxylabs.io",
  path: "/v1/queries",
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    Authorization:
      "Basic " + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString("base64"),
  },
};
const request = https.request(options, (response) => {
  let data = "";
  response.on("data", (chunk) => {
    data += chunk;
  });
  response.on("end", () => {
    const responseData = JSON.parse(data);
    console.log(JSON.stringify(responseData, null, 2));
  });
});
request.on("error", (error) => {
  console.error("Error:", error);
});
request.write(JSON.stringify(body));
request.end();

HTTP

https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries?source=youtube_search&query=how to make a website&access_token=12345abcde

PHP

<?php

$params = array(
    'source' => 'youtube_search',
    'query' => 'how to make a website'
);
   
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "USERNAME" . ":" . "PASSWORD");

$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

Golang

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	const Username = "USERNAME"
	const Password = "PASSWORD"

	// Define the payload with the new youtube_metadata query.
	payload := map[string]interface{}{
		"source": "youtube_search",
		"query":  "how to make a website
	}

	jsonValue, err := json.Marshal(payload)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error marshalling JSON:", err)
		return
	}

	client := &http.Client{}
	request, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries", bytes.NewBuffer(jsonValue))
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error creating request:", err)
		return
	}

	request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
	request.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

	response, err := client.Do(request)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error making request:", err)
		return
	}
	defer response.Body.Close()

	responseText, err := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error reading response:", err)
		return
	}

	fmt.Println(string(responseText))
}

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace OxyApi
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main()
        {
            const string Username = "USERNAME";
            const string Password = "PASSWORD";

            var parameters = new
            {
                source = "youtube_search",
                query = "how to make a website",
                context = new[]
                {
                    new { key = "language_code", value = "en" },
                    new { key = "transcript_origin", value = "uploader_provided" }
                }
            };

            var client = new HttpClient();

            Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://realtime.oxylabs.io");
            client.BaseAddress = baseUri;

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "/v1/queries");
            requestMessage.Content = JsonContent.Create(parameters);

            var authenticationString = $"{Username}:{Password}";
            var base64EncodedAuthenticationString = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authenticationString));
            requestMessage.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64EncodedAuthenticationString);

            try
            {
                var response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);
                response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

                var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                Console.WriteLine(contents);
            }
            catch (HttpRequestException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Request error: {e.Message}");
            }
        }
    }
}

Java

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class Main implements Runnable {
    private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
    public static final String USERNAME = "USERNAME";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "PASSWORD";

    public void run() {
        // Construct JSON payload for youtube_metadata request
        JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
        jsonObject.put("source", "youtube_search");
        jsonObject.put("query", "how to make a website");

        JSONArray contextArray = new JSONArray();
        contextArray.put(new JSONObject().put("key", "language_code").put("value", "en"));
        contextArray.put(new JSONObject().put("key", "transcript_origin").put("value", "uploader_provided"));

        jsonObject.put("context", contextArray);

        Authenticator authenticator = (route, response) -> {
            String credential = Credentials.basic(USERNAME, PASSWORD);
            return response
                    .request()
                    .newBuilder()
                    .header(AUTHORIZATION_HEADER, credential)
                    .build();
        };

        var client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                .authenticator(authenticator)
                .readTimeout(180, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                .build();

        var mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");
        var body = RequestBody.create(jsonObject.toString(), mediaType);
        var request = new Request.Builder()
                .url("https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries")
                .post(body)
                .build();

        try (var response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
            if (response.body() != null) {
                try (var responseBody = response.body()) {
                    System.out.println(responseBody.string());
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            System.out.println("Error: " + exception.getMessage());
        }

        System.exit(0);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Thread(new Main()).start();
    }
}

JSON

{
    "source": "youtube_search",
    "query": "how to make a website"
}

We use synchronous Realtime integration method in our examples. If you would like to use Push-Pull integration, refer to the Integration Methods section.

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youtube search output sample.json