YouTube Scraper API

Skip building YouTube scrapers. Use our API to extract video data, transcripts, comments, and engagement metrics from any YouTube video or channel.

No scraper maintenance required
Extract video metadata and stats
Get transcripts and comments
Works with YouTube Shorts

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https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/stats?url=youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

AI Summary

+transcript

Video discusses upcoming social media trends including AI-generated content...

• Full transcript available

Engagement

+15 metrics

94%

Rate

8.2

Score

• Views, likes, comments...

Topics

+keywords

AI ContentTrendsMarketing...

• Sentiment, entities...

"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."

Ziv Erlichson, Founder at Plynn

"Quick, caring and efficient support!"

Thomas Puech, Designer

"Easy to connect - work's smooth and properly!"

Robert Podsiadlo, Founder at PrimeStuff

3 Simple Steps to Analyze Social Media Videos

Start extracting insights from Social Media Videos in minutes, and save days of development.

Get Your Access Key

Sign up and get your API key instantly - no sales calls, no complex onboarding.

Send Your First Request

Call our Social Media API with any YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram URL.

Extract Insights at Scale

Get video summaries, transcripts, engagement metrics, and more.

Integrate with Your Favorite No-Code Platform

Use Zapier, Make, n8n or any other no-code platform using our native connection or by using the access token.

Popular Use Cases

See how teams are using this API in production

Automated Data Collection

Build data pipelines that extract YouTube video data at scale without managing scrapers, proxies, or handling blocked requests.

A research team collects data from 10,000+ videos monthly for sentiment analysis, using the API instead of brittle scraping scripts.

Competitive Intelligence

Monitor competitor YouTube channels, track their video performance, and analyze their content strategy without manual work.

Marketing agencies track 500+ competitor channels daily, extracting view counts, engagement rates, and posting frequency automatically.

Content Aggregation

Build applications that aggregate YouTube content, extracting metadata and transcripts for search, curation, or recommendation systems.

An e-learning platform scrapes educational YouTube videos, indexing transcripts to build a searchable knowledge base.

Social Media Monitoring

Track brand mentions, product reviews, and industry discussions across YouTube without building custom scrapers.

Brands monitor YouTube for product mentions, automatically extracting video details and sentiment from relevant content.

API Response Format

Clean, structured JSON that's easy to parse and integrate

Request

GET

GET https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/stats?access_key=<your-access-key>&url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Response

JSON

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video)",
    "channelName": "Rick Astley",
    "channelLink": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
    "views": 1428567890,
    "likes": 16234567,
    "comments": 4567890
  }
}

Common Workflows

Integrate with your existing tools and platforms

ETL Data Pipeline

Extract, transform, and load YouTube data into your data warehouse.

PythonAirflowSnowflakedbtAWS Lambda

Research Database

Build searchable databases of YouTube content for research.

PostgreSQLElasticsearchPythonFastAPIReact

Monitoring Dashboard

Track YouTube metrics and get alerts for changes.

GrafanaInfluxDBNode.jsSlackDiscord

6 Ways to Use YouTube Scraper API

Extract YouTube data at scale without building or maintaining web scrapers.

Complete Data Extraction

Extract all video data including title, description, views, likes, comments, transcripts, and channel info from any YouTube URL.

No Scraper Headaches

Skip building and maintaining scrapers. No proxy management, CAPTCHA solving, or blocked IP issues to deal with.

Structured JSON Output

Get clean, normalized JSON data ready for your database, analytics pipeline, or application without parsing HTML.

Reliable & Consistent

Stable API that works even when YouTube changes their frontend. No more broken scrapers after site updates.

All YouTube Content

Works with regular videos, YouTube Shorts, playlists, and channels. One API for all YouTube content types.

Developer Friendly

Simple REST API with GET/POST support. Easy integration with Python, Node.js, or any language that makes HTTP requests.

Our Social Media APIs

Comprehensive social media analysis APIs for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram content.

YouTube Summarizer API

AI-powered video summaries from YouTube URLs

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YouTube Transcript API

Extract accurate transcripts from YouTube videos

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YouTube Stats API

Comprehensive YouTube video analytics

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YouTube Comments API

Extract and analyze comments from YouTube videos

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YouTube Shorts Summarizer API

AI-powered summaries from YouTube Shorts

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YouTube Shorts Transcript API

Extract transcripts from YouTube Shorts

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YouTube Shorts Stats API

YouTube Shorts metadata extraction API

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YouTube Shorts Comments API

Extract comments from YouTube Shorts

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TikTok Stats API

Comprehensive TikTok video and creator analytics

Learn More

TikTok Comments API

Extract and analyze TikTok comments at scale

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TikTok Summarizer API

AI-powered video summaries from TikTok URLs

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TikTok Transcript API

Extract accurate transcripts from TikTok videos

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TikTok Channel Stats API

Comprehensive TikTok channel analytics

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Instagram Stats API

Comprehensive Instagram video and reel analytics

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Instagram Channel Stats API

Instagram profile statistics and follower metrics

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Instagram Summarizer API

AI-powered video summaries from Instagram URLs

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Instagram Transcript API

Extract accurate transcripts from Instagram videos

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Frequently Asked Questions

Ready to Extract Social Media Videos Data?

Extract video summaries, transcripts, comments, and engagement metrics from social media content with our powerful Social Media Data Extraction API.

Start Extracting for FreeNo credit card required.

https://api.socialkit.dev/youtube/stats?url=youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

AI Summary

+transcript

Video discusses upcoming social media trends including AI-generated content...

• Full transcript available

Engagement

+15 metrics

94%

Rate

8.2

Score

• Views, likes, comments...

Topics

+keywords

AI ContentTrendsMarketing...

• Sentiment, entities...

YouTube Scraper API

Skip building YouTube scrapers. Use our API to extract video data, transcripts, comments, and engagement metrics from any YouTube video or channel.

3 Simple Steps to Analyze Social Media Videos

Get Your Access Key

Sign up and get your API key instantly - no sales calls, no complex onboarding.

Send Your First Request

Call our Social Media API with any YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram URL.

Extract Insights at Scale

Get video summaries, transcripts, engagement metrics, and more.

Integrate with Your Favorite No-Code Platform

Popular Use Cases

Automated Data Collection

Competitive Intelligence

Content Aggregation

Social Media Monitoring

API Response Format

Request

Response

Common Workflows

ETL Data Pipeline

Research Database

Monitoring Dashboard

6 Ways to Use YouTube Scraper API

Complete Data Extraction

Extract all video data including title, description, views, likes, comments, transcripts, and channel info from any YouTube URL.

No Scraper Headaches

Skip building and maintaining scrapers. No proxy management, CAPTCHA solving, or blocked IP issues to deal with.

Structured JSON Output

Get clean, normalized JSON data ready for your database, analytics pipeline, or application without parsing HTML.

Reliable & Consistent

Stable API that works even when YouTube changes their frontend. No more broken scrapers after site updates.

All YouTube Content

Works with regular videos, YouTube Shorts, playlists, and channels. One API for all YouTube content types.

Developer Friendly

Simple REST API with GET/POST support. Easy integration with Python, Node.js, or any language that makes HTTP requests.

Our Social Media APIs

YouTube Summarizer API

YouTube Transcript API

YouTube Stats API

YouTube Comments API

YouTube Shorts Summarizer API

YouTube Shorts Transcript API

YouTube Shorts Stats API

YouTube Shorts Comments API

TikTok Stats API

TikTok Comments API

TikTok Summarizer API

TikTok Transcript API

TikTok Channel Stats API

Instagram Stats API

Instagram Channel Stats API

Instagram Summarizer API

Instagram Transcript API

Frequently Asked Questions

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What social media platforms does SocialKit support?

What data can I extract from Social Media Video?

How accurate are the video summaries and transcripts?

What level of support can I expect?

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