YouTube Metadata
Learn how to get YouTube video metadata using the Web Scraper API. Find out more about its parameters and see an example request.
You can get YouTube video metadata by providing a YouTube video ID to the youtube_metadata source.
Note that the parse parameter set to true is required. Render parameter is not allowed.
Request samples
The following examples demonstrate how to retrieve the metadata of a YouTube video.
curl 'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \
--user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"source": "youtube_metadata",
"query": "tIgIF5lve8U",
"parse": true
}'import requests
from pprint import pprint
# Structure payload.
payload = {
'source': 'youtube_metadata',
'query': 'tIgIF5lve8U',
'parse': true
}
# 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())const https = require("https");
const username = "USERNAME";
const password = "PASSWORD";
const body = {
source: "youtube_metadata",
query: "tIgIF5lve8U",
parse: true
};
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();https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries?source=youtube_metadata&query=tIgIF5lve8U&parse=true&access_token=12345abcde<?php
$params = array(
'source' => 'youtube_metadata',
'query' => 'tIgIF5lve8U',
'parse' => true
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($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);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_metadata",
"query": "tIgIF5lve8U",
"parse": true,
}
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))
}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_transcript",
query = "SLoqvcnwwN4",
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}");
}
}
}
}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_metadata");
jsonObject.put("query", "tIgIF5lve8U");
jsonObject.put("parse", true);
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();
}
}{
"source": "youtube_metadata",
"query": "tIgIF5lve8U",
"parse": true
}We use synchronous Realtime integration method in our examples. If you would like to use Push-Pull integration, refer to the Integration Methods section.
Request parameter values
Generic
Parameter
Description
Default Value
source
Sets the scraper.
youtube_metadata
query
YouTube video ID.
-
parse
Enables parsing when set to true.
-
– mandatory parameter
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