YouTube Video API

One video's full record — description, counts, keywords, channel.

YouTube API pricing — $0.50 per 1,000 results

POST /api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/video

Returns post_detail_api

Parameters#

video_id string required

The id from watch?v=<id> in the video URL.

Example: dQw4w9WgXcQ

Results#

GET /runs/:id/results answers with this once the run has finished — one post per row.

Every row also carries raw_json — the platform's own object for that row, exactly as it arrived, with nothing removed. It is left out of the example for length.

This endpoint errs towards returning more rather than less, so expect a few extra rows alongside what you asked for. Everything still comes back typed and parsed the same way.

curl -X POST https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/video \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALHOLMES_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"parameters": {"video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ"}}'

import os
import requests

run = requests.post(
    "https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/video",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SOCIALHOLMES_KEY']}"},
    json={"parameters": {"video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ"}},
).json()

print(run["id"], run["status"])

const response = await fetch("https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/video", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SOCIALHOLMES_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ parameters: { video_id: "dQw4w9WgXcQ" } }),
})

const run = await response.json()
console.log(run.id, run.status)

require "net/http"
require "json"

response = Net::HTTP.post(
  URI("https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/video"),
  { parameters: { video_id: "dQw4w9WgXcQ" } }.to_json,
  "Authorization" => "Bearer #{ENV.fetch('SOCIALHOLMES_KEY')}",
  "Content-Type" => "application/json"
)

run = JSON.parse(response.body)
puts run["id"], run["status"]

<?php

$ch = curl_init("https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/video");

curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("SOCIALHOLMES_KEY"),
        "Content-Type: application/json",
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode(["parameters" => ["video_id" => "dQw4w9WgXcQ"]]),
]);

$run = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

echo $run["id"], " ", $run["status"];

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
		"parameters": map[string]string{"video_id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ"},
	})

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://socialholmes.com/api/public/v1/scrape/youtube/video", bytes.NewReader(body))
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("SOCIALHOLMES_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	defer res.Body.Close()

	var run map[string]any
	json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&run)

	fmt.Println(run["id"], run["status"])
}

202 Accepted

{
  "id": "8f14e45f-ceea-467a-9c2e-1b0f5a4c7d21",
  "status": "queued",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "endpoint": "video",
  "target": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "result_count": 0,
  "created_at": "2026-10-16T17:07:10Z"
}

example

{
  "run": {
    "id": "8f14e45f-ceea-467a-9c2e-1b0f5a4c7d21",
    "status": "succeeded",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "endpoint": "video",
    "target": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "result_count": 1,
    "estimated_cost": 1,
    "captures": 1,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T09:11:03Z",
    "started_at": "2026-08-22T09:12:03Z",
    "finished_at": "2026-08-22T09:14:03Z"
  },
  "unit": "post",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "type": "video",
      "title": "Artemis II Crew Rollout — Full Replay",
      "description": "Watch the Artemis II stack roll out to Launch Complex 39B, from first motion to hard down.",
      "keywords": [
        "artemis",
        "nasa",
        "moon"
      ],
      "category": "Science & Technology",
      "duration": "1:42:07",
      "duration_seconds": 6127,
      "published_at": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z",
      "uploaded_at": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z",
      "view_count": 1204118,
      "is_live_content": false,
      "author": {
        "id": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
        "username": "@NASA",
        "name": "NASA",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@NASA"
      }
    }
  ],
  "page": {
    "limit": 1,
    "offset": 0,
    "returned": 1,
    "total": 1
  }
}

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