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title: "Scrape Creators API / Video/Short Details"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-youtube-video on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Fetches full details for a YouTube video or short, including title, description, thumbnail, view count (views), like count (likes), comment count, publish date, duration, genre, keywords, chapters, collaborators, and available caption tracks (subtitles/captions). isPaidPromotion is true when YouTube marks the video as including paid promotion and false when it does not. Also returns related recommended videos in watchNextVideos and channel info for the uploader. When YouTube exposes its public Most replayed graph, most_replayed contains normalized graph buckets in markers and YouTube's highlighted ranges in ranges. The field is null when the graph is not available. YouTube says the graph may be unavailable when the channel has active strikes, the content is potentially inappropriate, the video is too new or has too few views, or its systems deem the video ineligible for another reason. YouTube does not publish fixed age or view-count thresholds. Age-restricted videos return 403 with message: "This video is age restricted" because Scrape Creators only uses the public logged-out YouTube source.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-youtube-video`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Video youtube](/reference/jobs/youtube-video) (`youtube.video`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `cache_max_age` | string | no | Example: "7d" |
| `language` | string | no | Example: "en" |
| `url` | string | yes | Example: "https://youtu.be/gTCi7PaOPLY" |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

```txt
{ id, type, success, description, likeCountInt, viewCountInt, collaborators: unknown[], likeCountText, viewCountText, commentCountInt, credits_charged, publishDateText, commentCountText, descriptionLinks: string[], credits_remaining }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-youtube-video","input":{"url":"<url>","language":"en","cache_max_age":"7d"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-youtube-video",
    input: {
      url: "<url>",
      language: "en",
      cache_max_age: "7d",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-youtube-video",
        "input": {
            "url": "<url>",
            "language": "en",
            "cache_max_age": "7d",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:youtube.video` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/youtube-video).