YouTube Video Details Scraper
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Pay per usage
YouTube Video Details Scraper
Input: YouTube video link | 👉 Output: Transcript, video description, video title 👌👉 This actor processes a YouTube video link and extracts the transcript, description, and title of the video. It's perfect for gathering video metadata and subtitles for further analysis or content creation.
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Pricing
Pay per usage
20
Monthly users
56
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
86 days
Last modified
6 months ago
You can access the YouTube Video Details Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=deanter/youtube-video-details-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing YouTube Scraper – Extract Descriptions & Subtitles via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use YouTube Scraper – Extract Descriptions & Subtitles within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the YouTube Scraper – Extract Descriptions & Subtitles Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxRgPKrGw0U"
8},
9 "name": "deanter/youtube-video-details-scraper"
10 }
11}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for YouTube Scraper – Extract Descriptions & Subtitles
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "deanter/youtube-video-details-scraper"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
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Pay per usageThis Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage.
