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YouTube video data extractor for individual video details

Extract comprehensive data from individual YouTube videos - title, channel name, channel URL, subscriber count, view count, like count, publish date, full description, video tags, and comment count - to analyze video performance and content strategy in depth.

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What this robot does

Every YouTube video page is a rich data source far beyond what the search results listing shows. On the video page itself you find the full video title, channel name and subscriber count, channel URL, total view count, like count, upload date, full video description (often hundreds of words including links and timestamps), video tags, and the total number of comments. This deep metadata drives competitive analysis in ways that search result summaries cannot.

When you want to understand exactly why a particular video accumulated 5 million views - what keywords appear in the description, what tags the creator used, how long the description is, how the channel packaged the content - you need the video page level data. Content creators use this to reverse-engineer high-performing competitors' videos. SEO analysts study descriptions and tags to understand YouTube's content taxonomy.

Marketers evaluating influencer partners need verified view and engagement data. Researchers tracking misinformation study how viral videos are structured. This robot extracts the complete metadata from individual YouTube video pages for deep analysis.

What individual YouTube video scraping delivers:

  • ✓ Deep content reverse-engineering: Move beyond surface-level search listings. Extract the full description, tags, and metadata of top-performing videos in your niche to understand exactly how they're optimized - and replicate the approach.
  • ✓ Influencer performance verification: Before signing a creator for a campaign, extract their video data to verify view counts, engagement rates, and posting consistency. Get accurate numbers, not estimates.
  • ✓ YouTube SEO tag and keyword analysis: Tags on YouTube videos signal topic relevance to the algorithm. Extract tags from top-ranking videos in your category to inform your own video optimization strategy.
  • ✓ Content performance benchmarking: Extract video-level metrics for your own videos and direct competitors. Build a structured performance comparison that shows where your content leads, matches, or lags the competition.
FieldExample ValueUse ForAccessible OnData Type
Video TitleHow to Build a Growth Strategy in 2024Content analysis and SEO optimizationVideo page headerText
Channel URLyoutube.com/@brandbuildDirect channel access and analyticsVideo page sidebarURL
Subscriber Count450,000Influencer evaluation and credibility assessmentVideo page sidebarNumber
View Count2,850,000Performance benchmarking and viral analysisVideo page headerNumber
Like Count125,400Engagement rate calculation and content evaluationVideo page statsNumber

How to extract YouTube video info in 4 steps

No account required. The robot reads the public YouTube video page and extracts all available metadata.

  • A free Browse AI account (no credit card required).
  • The URL of a specific YouTube video page (youtube.com/watch?v=...).
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Sign up for free
Create your Browse AI account in under a minute. No credit card required. You will find this prebuilt robot in the robot library ready to use.
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Find the YouTube video you want to analyze and copy the URL
Navigate to any YouTube video you want to extract data from. This can be a competitor video, a top-ranking result for a keyword, an influencer's recent upload, or your own video for benchmarking. Copy the full URL from the address bar.
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Run the robot
Click run. The robot reads the YouTube video page and extracts the video title, channel name, channel URL, subscriber count, total view count, like count, upload date, full description text, video tags, and comment count.
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Connect integrations or export your data
Your video metadata is structured and ready. Analyze the description for keyword density, export tags for SEO planning, calculate engagement rates from views and likes, or compile video data from multiple competitor videos into a benchmarking dataset.

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What can you do with individual YouTube video data?

Video-level metadata drives YouTube SEO, influencer research, and content strategy:

  • YouTube SEO optimization: Extract the description and tags from top-ranking videos for your target keyword. Identify common terms, description length patterns, and tag structures to inform your own video optimization.
  • Influencer due diligence: Before partnering with a creator, extract their videos to verify actual view counts, like-to-view ratios, and engagement consistency across multiple uploads - not just their best-performing content.
  • Viral video anatomy study: Identify videos that significantly outperformed expectations in your niche. Extract their full metadata to analyze title length, description structure, tag count, and what elements may have contributed to the performance.
  • Competitor content database: Extract metadata from dozens of competitor videos. Build a structured database showing what topics they cover, how they optimize descriptions, and which videos are their best performers.
  • Own content performance tracking: Extract your own video data over time. Track how views, likes, and comment counts grow after each update cycle or promotion push.
  • Academic and misinformation research: Researchers studying platform content need structured video metadata. Extract to build datasets for analysis of YouTube content patterns, recommendation signals, and viral spread.
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YouTube creators and SEO specialists
Reverse-engineer top-performing videos in your niche. Extract full metadata to understand what descriptions, tags, and titles the algorithm rewards.
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Influencer marketing teams
Verify creator performance before campaigns. Extract video-level metrics to validate engagement rates and audience authenticity.
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Digital marketing analysts
Build competitive video performance benchmarks. Extract metadata across competitor channels for structured content intelligence.
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Researchers and journalists
Study video content patterns at scale. Extract YouTube video metadata for platform dynamics and content analysis research.

What data does this YouTube video scraper extract?

Each individual YouTube video page provides:

FieldWhat it contains
Video TitleFull title as published.
Channel NameName of the publishing channel.
Channel URLDirect link to the creator's channel.
View CountTotal views at time of extraction.
Like CountTotal likes on the video.
Subscriber CountTotal subscribers on the publishing channel.
Publish DateDate the video was published.
Full DescriptionComplete video description including links and timestamps.
Video TagsKeyword tags applied by the creator.
Comment CountTotal number of comments.

Deep video metadata for YouTube SEO analysis, influencer research, and competitive content intelligence.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from the YouTube search results scraper?
The YouTube search results scraper extracts listing summaries for many videos at once from a search page. This robot extracts complete metadata from a single video page - including the full description, tags, channel URL, subscriber count, and precise engagement counts that search listings don't show.

Can I extract data from private or unlisted videos?
No. This robot only works on public YouTube videos. Private and unlisted videos require authentication and are not accessible.

Are video tags always visible on the YouTube page?
YouTube no longer displays tags publicly in the standard page view, but they remain embedded in the page source. Browse AI's robot accesses the source to extract tag data.

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