YouTube Video Detail is used to fetch video detail data from YouTube.

• Fetch video details by video URL
• Support multiple video URLs in one request
• Return title, description, views, author, and publish data
• Suitable for video archiving and custom content analysis workflows

Use XCrawl to Fetch YouTube Video Details

Usage

curl -s -X POST 'https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/data' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $XCRAWL_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "engine": "youtube_video_detail",
    "location": "US",
    "video_url_list": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0p05Tq7oq0"]
  }'

Request parameter notes:

• engine must be youtube_video_detail
• location specifies the target region
• video_url_list accepts one or more video URLs

Response Example

{
  "result": [
    {
      "video_id": "N0p05Tq7oq0",
      "video_title": "MIND-BLOWING MacBook Air M5 LEAKS - OLED Screen?",
      "video_author": "Matt Talks Tech",
      "video_view_count": "36429"
    }
  ]
}

Parameters

Required Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
location	string	Specifies the target region.
video_url_list	array	Accepts one or more YouTube video URLs.

Parameter Notes

• location defaults to US
• URLs in video_url_list should be full video URLs

Response Fields

Response data is returned under result[].

Field	Type	Description
video_id	string	Video id.
video_title	string	Video title.
video_length	string	Video duration in seconds.
video_keyword	array	Video tags or keywords.
video_decs	string	Video description.
video_thumbnail	string	Primary thumbnail URL.
video_view_count	string	View count.
video_author	string	Channel name.
video_publish_date	string	Publish date.
video_like_count	string	Like count.
video_channel_id	string	Channel id.
video_channel_url	string	Channel URL.
video_category	string	Video category.
video_canonical_url	string	Canonical video URL.
video_thumbnail_list	array	Thumbnail list.

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