GET
$0.0011 default
/metaDescription
YouTube video metadata in one call: title, channel name and id, duration, upload date, view and like counts, description, thumbnail URL, the chapter list with start and end times, and the language plus kind (manual or auto) of every available caption track. Never downloads media. Use it to check a video's length or caption availability before paying for a transcript, or to enrich a bare video link with real facts.
Pricing
$0.0011 default
Parameters
{
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"url": {
"description": "YouTube video URL or bare 11-character video id.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"url"
],
"type": "object"
}Example response
{
"available_captions": [
{
"kind": "manual",
"lang": "en"
},
{
"kind": "auto",
"lang": "es"
}
],
"channel": "Example Channel",
"channel_id": "UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
"chapters": [
{
"end": 43,
"start": 0,
"title": "Intro"
}
],
"description": "In this video we walk through agent architectures ...",
"duration_s": 213,
"like_count": 18204,
"thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/arj7oStGLkU/maxresdefault.jpg",
"title": "Building autonomous agents",
"upload_date": "2025-10-25",
"video_id": "arj7oStGLkU",
"view_count": 1648203
}