How to Scrape and Extract YouTube Video Information with Airtop Studio

Manually collecting detailed YouTube video metrics—such as titles, URLs, view counts, likes, and comments—is tedious, error-prone, and difficult to scale. Content marketers, analysts, and developers often face challenges reliably extracting structured data at scale, making vital video insights hard to gather and analyze quickly. Reliance on inconsistent manual work and unreliable third-party scraping tools further complicates the task.

The Extract YouTube Video Info automation by Airtop solves these challenges effectively. Using Airtop Studio, this automation accurately scrapes essential data directly from YouTube, ensuring structured, reliable output. Airtop interacts with YouTube using real browser sessions, meaning your data extraction emulates genuine browsing behavior for precise results. This Airtop Studio-driven automation makes collecting video performance insights quick, scalable, and effortless, even for large-scale content analysis.

With built-in advanced features such as handling real browser sessions, structured JSON output, and seamless scalability, Airtop Studio is optimized specifically for automating YouTube workflows. Enjoy trouble-free extraction, extensive customization, and high reliability—meaning less time spent collecting data and more time applying insights.

Who is this Automation for?

• Content Marketing Teams analyzing YouTube channel performance

• Social Media Analysts assembling competitive intelligence and audience insights

• Developers integrating YouTube data within analytics dashboards

• SEO Professionals monitoring and benchmarking video content success

Key Benefits

• Structured, reliable JSON output for effortless data integration

• Uses real browser technology to ensure accuracy and authentic interaction

• No authentication required; simple setup and immediate productivity

• Easily scalable for analyzing hundreds or thousands of videos quickly

Use Cases

• Monitoring competitor video content for views, likes, and engagement metrics

• Automating weekly or monthly YouTube performance reporting

• Extracting viewer comment data to analyze sentiment and audience engagement

• Creating data-driven content strategies based on high-performing videos

• Building custom video analytics dashboards by integrating structured YouTube data

• Identifying video trends by periodically scraping top-performing video statistics

Getting Started with the Extract YouTube Video Info Automation

Quickly extract structured data from YouTube videos with a few straightforward steps.

How the Extract YouTube Video Info Automation Works

This Airtop Studio automation accesses YouTube through secure browser sessions, accurately scraping video URLs you provide. It then collects structured data points, including video titles, view counts, likes, comments, URL details, and more. You receive structured JSON output, ready for immediate analysis, reporting, or integration into your internal workflows.

What You’ll Need

• A free Airtop account

• Optional: Development environment for advanced customization (Python or TypeScript implementation)

Setting Up the Automation

1. Click on Try Automation

2. Click on Start Session

3. Click Run

4. Optional: Obtain Python or TypeScript code by clicking Get Code or integrate with Make or n8n by copying prompt and JSON schema

Customize the Automation

Airtop allows you significant flexibility to tailor this YouTube data extraction automation to your specific needs:

• Schedule automatic daily or weekly data collection runs for regular YouTube monitoring

• Customize the exported data fields, including adding additional metrics like channel subscriber count or upload date for richer analysis

• Filter output by specific video metrics—such as extracting only videos above a certain view threshold

• Integrate the output directly into analytics or BI tools for complete performance visibility and reporting

Automation Best Practices

• Regularly update video scraping lists for consistent, fresh insights

• Combine YouTube data extraction with analytics integrations to automate reporting

• Carefully define your output schema to include only relevant metrics that match your analysis needs

• Avoid overly frequent scraping to maintain efficiency and stay within practical usage limits

Try this Automation

Optimize your YouTube analytics workflows with powerful, automated data extraction. Airtop's Extract YouTube Video Info automation leverages Airtop Studio for fast, structured, and scalable video analysis. Need help customizing this automation? Book a Demo today!