How to Scrape YouTube Video Details — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull YouTube Video Details data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the YouTube Video Details Scraper - Views & Metadata, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no YouTube Video Details login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

title
channelTitle
viewCount
duration
category
publishDate
videoId
url
description
channelId
channelUrl
likeCount
lengthSeconds
uploadDate

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/youtube-video-details-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install youtube-video-details-scraper

const scrape = require("youtube-video-details-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install youtube-video-details-scraper

from youtube_video_details_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`videos`	array	Video URLs or IDs
`trendingCategory`	string	Trending category (used if no videos given)
`region`	string	Region
`language`	string	Language
`includeLikes`	boolean	Include like count
`maxResults`	integer	Max results
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy configuration

Common use cases

Build a fresh YouTube Video Details dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed YouTube Video Details records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date YouTube Video Details data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.