YouTube Video API

Using the YouTube Videos API you can scrape YouTube Videos results without worrying about proxy rotation and data parsing. Our API is fast and reliable.

Each successful request to this API will cost 5 credits.

Parameters

Scrapingdog Parameters

Parameter	Description
api_key required	Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard. Type: String

Localization

Parameter	Description
country	This parameter specifies the country for the YouTube Videos using a two-letter country code (e.g., US for the United States, UK for the United Kingdom, or FR for France). For a complete list of supported countries, visit the Google countries page. Default Value - us Type - String
language	Language of the results. Possible Values - en, es, fr, de, etc. Visit Google's languages page for a complete list of supported countries. Default Value - en Type - String

Search Query

Parameter	Description
video_id required	The YouTube Video ID. Type: String

API Example

cURL

cURL "https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube/video?api_key=APIKEY&v=0e3GPea1Tyg"

Python

import requests

api_key = "5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653"
url = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube/video/"

params = {
    "api_key": api_key,
    "v": "0e3GPea1Tyg"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)

if response.status_code == 200:
    data = response.json()
    print(data)
else:
    print(f"Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}")

Node JS

const axios = require('axios');

const api_key = 'APIKEY';
const url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube/video/';

const params = {
  api_key: api_key,
  v: '0e3GPea1Tyg'
};

axios
  .get(url, { params: params })
  .then(function (response) {
    if (response.status === 200) {
      const data = response.data;
      console.log(data)
    } else {
      console.log('Request failed with status code: ' + response.status);
    }
  })
  .catch(function (error) {
    console.error('Error making the request: ' + error.message);
  });

PHP

<?php

// Set the API key and request parameters
$api_key = 'APIKEY';
$v = '0e3GPea1Tyg';

// Set the API endpoint
$url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube/video/?api_key=' . $api_key . '&v=' . $v;

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init($url);

// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the cURL request
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check if the request was successful
if ($response === false) {
    echo 'cURL error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    // Process the response data as needed
    echo $response;
}

// Close the cURL session
curl_close($ch);

Ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

# Set the API key and request parameters
api_key = 'APIKEY'
v = '0e3GPea1Tyg'

# Construct the API endpoint URL
url = URI.parse("https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube/video/?api_key=#{api_key}&v=#{v}")

# Create an HTTP GET request
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

# Create an HTTP client
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true # Enable SSL (https)

# Send the request and get the response
response = http.request(request)

# Check if the request was successful
if response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
  puts response.body # Process the response data as needed
else
  puts "HTTP request failed with code: #{response.code}, message: #{response.message}"
end

Java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            // Set the API key and request parameters
            String apiKey = "APIKEY";
            String v = "0e3GPea1Tyg";

            // Construct the API endpoint URL
            String apiUrl = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/youtube/video/?api_key=" + apiKey
                    + "&v=" + v

            // Create a URL object from the API URL string
            URL url = new URL(apiUrl);

            // Open a connection to the URL
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            // Set the request method to GET
            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");

            // Get the response code
            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();

            if (responseCode == 200) {
                // Read the response from the connection
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
                String inputLine;
                StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();

                while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    response.append(inputLine);
                }
                reader.close();

                // Process the response data as needed
                System.out.println(response.toString());
            } else {
                System.out.println("HTTP request failed with response code: " + responseCode);
            }

            // Close the connection
            connection.disconnect();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

API Response