YouTube Video Details Scraper

YouTube Video Details Scraper: Free Video Metadata, Heatmap, Chapters & Audio Tracks Extractor

YouTube Video Details Scraper is a fast, 100% free online tool that extracts complete video details, exact view counts, unrounded likes, comment counts, video chapters, viewer engagement heatmaps, music credits, tags, and thumbnails from any YouTube video or Shorts clip—with zero API keys, no Google Cloud setup, and no technical skills required.

The zero-cost, unlimited alternative to complex developer tools and restricted Google Data APIs. Get instant access to deep video insights in clean tables, visual cards, or downloadable CSV, Excel, and JSON formats.

📑 Quick Navigation Table of Contents

• YouTube Video Details Scraper: Free Video Metadata, Heatmap, Chapters & Audio Tracks Extractor
  • 📑 Quick Navigation Table of Contents
  • ⚡ Why Choose This Scraper Over the Official YouTube API?
  • 🎯 Who Is This For? (Popular Use Cases)
  • 🚀 Top Features & What Data You Get
    • 1. 100% Free — Zero API Keys or Setup Required
    • 2. Exact Like Counts (No More Rounded Numbers)
    • 3. Total Comments Counter, Pinned Comment & Top Discussion
    • 4. Timestamped Video Chapters with Preview Thumbnails
    • 5. "Most-Replayed" Engagement Curve & Retention Peaks
    • 6. Music & Copyright Credits (Song, Artist & Album)
    • 7. Spoken Language & Multi-Language Audio Dubs
    • 8. AI-Generated & Synthetic Content Transparency Labels
    • 9. Cleaned Description Links, Timestamps & Hashtags
    • 10. Full YouTube Shorts Support (Up to 3 Minutes)
    • 11. Interactive Visual Cards & Easy Data Viewer
  • ⚙️ How to Extract Video Details (Step-by-Step)
    • Simple Extraction Settings
    • Example Settings Setup
  • 📥 Supported YouTube Links & ID Formats
  • 📋 Complete 61 Data Fields You Can Extract
  • 💼 Powerful Business & Creator Workflows
    • 1. Competitor Video SEO & Keyword Research
    • 2. Viral Hook & Viewer Drop-Off Analysis
    • 3. Influencer Campaign Audits & Sponsorship Verification
    • 4. Music Rights, Soundtrack & Audio Tracking
    • 5. Content Strategy & Evergreen Topic Planning
  • 💡 Real Production Data Examples
  • 🤝 Works Great With Companion Tools
  • ❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) — Everything You Need to Know

⚡ Why Choose This Scraper Over the Official YouTube API?

🎯 Who Is This For? (Popular Use Cases)

• Content Creators & YouTubers: Discover what tags top creators use, study viral hooks using audience heatmaps, and analyze top comments to find your next video topic.
• Digital Marketers & Video SEO Specialists: Conduct deep keyword audits, optimize video tags and hashtags, and study high-ranking competitor videos.
• Influencer Agencies & Brand Managers: Verify influencer stats with exact like counts and true comment engagement before booking sponsored brand deals.
• Music Industry & Video Editors: Identify songs, record labels, and license holders featured in videos, or find the most-replayed video moments for clip editing.
• Researchers & Students: Gather rich video data, publication timelines, and audience metrics for research, presentations, and market analysis.

🚀 Top Features & What Data You Get

1. 100% Free — Zero API Keys or Setup Required

You don't need a developer account, Google Cloud credentials, or an API key. Just paste any YouTube video link, click run, and view your results in seconds.

2. Exact Like Counts (No More Rounded Numbers)

While YouTube's public website rounds like numbers (e.g. displaying "19M" or "280K"), this scraper captures the exact, unrounded number of likes (such as 19,496,173), giving you true engagement accuracy.

3. Total Comments Counter, Pinned Comment & Top Discussion

Instantly view the total comment count, read the pinned creator message, and review the top discussion comments with author names, likes, and reply counts—without slowing down your extraction.

4. Timestamped Video Chapters with Preview Thumbnails

Extract clean chapter breakdowns including chapter titles, start and end times, formatted timestamps ("02:45"), and visual chapter preview images for every section of the video.

5. "Most-Replayed" Engagement Curve & Retention Peaks

See exactly which parts of a video viewers watch the most! The scraper extracts YouTube's 100-point audience retention curve, highlighting viral spikes and key moments across the video timeline.

6. Music & Copyright Credits (Song, Artist & Album)

Automatically capture official music credits listed in the video description, including song title, recording artist, music album name, and album cover art.

7. Spoken Language & Multi-Language Audio Dubs

Discover all available audio tracks on the video, including the primary spoken language, alternate dubbed languages, and whether the audio track is an automated AI dub.

8. AI-Generated & Synthetic Content Transparency Labels

Check whether the creator has disclosed that the video includes altered, realistic AI-generated, or synthetic media in compliance with YouTube's transparency guidelines.

9. Cleaned Description Links, Timestamps & Hashtags

All links inside the video description are neatly extracted, unrolled from redirect shields, and categorized into website URLs, creator timestamps, hashtags, and social media handles.

10. Full YouTube Shorts Support (Up to 3 Minutes)

Works seamlessly with standard desktop videos as well as vertical YouTube Shorts, including the newest 3-minute Shorts format.

11. Interactive Visual Cards & Easy Data Viewer

View your results in rich, interactive cards, click thumbnails to open a high-resolution lightbox, or inspect nested data tables (like chapters and music tracks) with one click in the BrowserMesh dashboard.

⚙️ How to Extract Video Details (Step-by-Step)

Extracting YouTube video details takes three simple steps:

1. Paste Your YouTube Link(s): Enter one or more YouTube URLs or video IDs (separated by newlines or commas).
2. Choose What You Want to Extract: Keep all boxes checked to get everything, or toggle chapters, comments, heatmaps, and music credits according to your preference.
3. Run & Export: Click run to view the data in clean tables and cards, or download everything into CSV, Excel, or JSON with a single click.

Simple Extraction Settings

Example Settings Setup

{
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\nhttps://youtube.com/shorts/JSTr0EqXbKA",
  "extractChapters": true,
  "extractHeatmap": true,
  "extractMusicCredits": true,
  "extractCardsAndEndScreen": true,
  "extractDescriptionLinks": true,
  "extractComments": true,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}

📥 Supported YouTube Links & ID Formats

You can paste any standard YouTube link format:

• Standard Watch Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
• Link with Extra Tracking Parameters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&t=42s&feature=share
• Shortened Share Link: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
• YouTube Shorts Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JSTr0EqXbKA
• Mobile YouTube Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
• Embedded Player Link: https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ
• YouTube Live Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/dQw4w9WgXcQ
• Direct 11-Character Video ID: dQw4w9WgXcQ

📋 Complete 61 Data Fields You Can Extract

Every video extracted provides up to 61 organized data fields:

💼 Powerful Business & Creator Workflows

1. Competitor Video SEO & Keyword Research

• Inspect Hidden Tags: Find the exact keywords, tags, and hashtags that successful videos use to rank in YouTube search recommendations.
• Analyze Title Patterns: Compare high-performing title formulas and description lengths across top creators in your niche.
• Compare Thumbnail Designs: Review high-resolution thumbnails side-by-side to improve your own click-through rates.

2. Viral Hook & Viewer Drop-Off Analysis

• Find the Golden Seconds: Use the "Most-Replayed" heatmap curve to see exactly which 5–10 seconds hold audience attention the longest.
• Analyze Drop-Off Points: Discover where viewers lose interest or skip forward so you can create tighter, more engaging intros.
• Chapter Structuring: Study how top education and tutorial channels organize their videos into clean, digestible chapters.

3. Influencer Campaign Audits & Sponsorship Verification

• Verify Real Engagement: Check exact like counts and true comment numbers rather than relying on rough estimates.
• FTC & Sponsorship Compliance: Automatically check if sponsored creator videos have the official paid promotion disclosure enabled.
• Detect AI Content: Check whether creator content contains synthetic or AI-generated video labels for brand safety.

4. Music Rights, Soundtrack & Audio Tracking

• Track Song Usage: Capture official music metadata (song name, artist, album, publisher) across popular videos and Shorts.
• Monitor Global Audio Dubs: Check if global creators are publishing multi-language audio versions to expand into new international regions.

5. Content Strategy & Evergreen Topic Planning

• Mine Audience Questions: Review top comments and pinned creator discussions to find common questions and trending viewer requests.
• Track Evergreen Lifespans: Compare publication dates with current views to evaluate which topics maintain steady viewership over years.

💡 Real Production Data Examples

Here is what the extracted data looks like for real videos:

1. Standard Popular Video (Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up)

{
  "video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
  "category": "Music",
  "keywords": ["rick astley", "Never Gonna Give You Up", "80s music", "rickroll"],
  "duration_formatted": "3:33",
  "view_count": 1830261945,
  "view_count_formatted": "1,830,261,945 views",
  "like_count": 19496173,
  "like_count_formatted": "19,496,173 likes",
  "comment_count": 2460586,
  "channel_name": "Rick Astley",
  "channel_handle": "@RickAstleyYT",
  "channel_subscribers_formatted": "4.55M subscribers",
  "is_channel_verified": false,
  "is_channel_artist": true,
  "is_short": false,
  "status": "ok"
}

2. YouTube Shorts Vertical Video

{
  "video_id": "JSTr0EqXbKA",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSTr0EqXbKA",
  "title": "Bala vs Gana Guna Gaana War 😂🔥 | Super Singer ROFL",
  "category": "Comedy",
  "duration_formatted": "0:34",
  "view_count": 16423040,
  "like_count": 284045,
  "comment_count": 198,
  "channel_name": "Mugaa",
  "channel_handle": "@TheMugaa",
  "is_channel_verified": true,
  "is_short": true,
  "status": "ok"
}

🤝 Works Great With Companion Tools

Build complete YouTube research workflows by pairing this tool with other BrowserMesh scrapers:

• YouTube Transcript Scraper (youtube-transcript-scraper): Download full word-for-word spoken transcripts, subtitle files (.srt, .vtt), or translated text for any video.
• Website Meta Tag Extractor (website-meta-tag-extractor): Extract OpenGraph and Twitter card metadata from blog posts and articles embedding YouTube videos.
• Website Social Links Extractor (website-social-links-extractor): Discover creator social profiles, TikTok handles, and Instagram accounts from their link-in-bio websites.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) — Everything You Need to Know

Do I need a Google Cloud account or API key to use this?

No. You do not need an API key, Google Cloud console account, credit card, or developer credentials. Simply paste your YouTube video link into the tool to extract data immediately.

Can I scrape multiple YouTube videos at once?

Yes! You can enter multiple YouTube video URLs or video IDs separated by newlines or commas. The tool will process them in bulk and organize all records into a single clean table.

Does this scraper extract exact like counts?

Yes! While YouTube often rounds numbers like "19M likes" or "280K likes" on the website, this tool retrieves the exact unrounded count (e.g. 19,496,173) for maximum accuracy.

Can I see the video's most-replayed moments?

Yes! The scraper extracts YouTube's 100-point viewer engagement curve (heatmap), showing you the exact seconds where viewer retention is highest.

Does it work on YouTube Shorts?

Yes! The scraper fully supports vertical YouTube Shorts, including Shorts up to 3 minutes long, providing view counts, like counts, durations, and channel details.

Can I extract video comments?

Yes! It captures the exact total comment count, whether comments are enabled, the pinned creator comment, the first viewer comment, and the initial batch of top comments with like counts and author names.

Can I export the data to Excel or CSV?

Yes! You can export your extracted data with one click directly into CSV, Excel, or JSON format for easy use in Google Sheets, reports, or presentations.

What happens if a video is private, deleted, or age-restricted?

If a video cannot be viewed publicly, the scraper safely marks it with a clear status like 'private', 'video_unavailable', or 'age_restricted' and continues processing the rest of your list without crashing.

Can I see video tags and keywords that creators use?

Yes! All creator-defined meta tags, keywords, and description hashtags are extracted in an organized list, making competitor SEO research effortless.

How do I know if a video was made with AI?

The scraper checks YouTube's synthetic media disclosure tag (is_synthetic_media). If the creator flagged their video as altered, realistic synthetic content, or AI-generated, it will be marked as true.

Does this scraper extract live streams and upcoming premieres?

Yes! It identifies active live streams, live stream VOD replays, and scheduled premieres along with scheduled start times and live viewer numbers.

Can I see music and song credits?

Yes! If a video contains recognized music, the scraper extracts the song title, performing artist, album name, and album artwork directly from the video description's music shelf.