# YouTube Video/Short Details Scraper

> YouTube Video/Short Details Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Fetches metadata and details for a YouTube video or Short given its URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/youtube/video?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-video-short-details-scraper-1af29cf0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_oOl6g9-zt5vEahdhU6Yoo

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability youtube-video-short-details-scraper-1af29cf0
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the details for this YouTube video — title, description, view count, and upload date — from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to extract metadata and details from a specific YouTube video or Short by URL without YouTube's official API quota limits or OAuth requirements. Ideal for quick, pay-per-call lookups of video stats and metadata in agent workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed YouTube URL returns an error
- Private or deleted videos may return no data or an error
- YouTube rate limiting or anti-scraping measures may cause failures
- Age-restricted videos may not return full details
- Non-YouTube URLs passed in the url parameter will fail

## How this service works

Video/Short Details

## Output

Returns structured metadata for the specified YouTube video or Short, including title, description, view count, like count, channel name, upload date, and other available video details scraped from the YouTube page.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "YouTube video or short URL"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-video-short-details-scraper-1af29cf0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)