Get a YouTube video by id
Return a single YouTube video's details by its video ID — title, description, channel, duration, category, publish time, and view and like counts. Useful for hydrating a known video or checking its current engagement.
Pricing — $ · min $0.001
Billed per record at 1 credit ($0.001) each, with a 1-credit ($0.001) minimum per call.
Authorization
bearerAuth AuthorizationBearer <token>
UnifAPI API key. Provider credentials are managed by UnifAPI.
In: header
Path Parameters
video_id*string
YouTube video id, e.g. oaSNBz4qMQY.
Response Body
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curl -X GET "https://example.com/youtube/videos/string"{ "request_id": "string", "data": { "id": "string", "title": "string", "description": "string", "channel_id": "string", "author": "string", "duration_seconds": 0, "view_count": 0, "like_count": 0, "category": "string", "keywords": [ "string" ], "thumbnail_url": "string", "published_at": "string", "has_captions": true, "is_live": true, "is_private": true }, "billing": { "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}{ "error": { "type": "validation_error", "message": "string", "request_id": "string", "issues": [ null ], "billing": { "credits_required": 0, "credits_charged": 0, "records_charged": 0, "balance_remaining": 0, "truncated_due_to_balance": true } }}