YouTube video API

Get a video's stats, description, chapters and most replayed moments

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/youtube/video \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "videoId": "p0fybvFyOlM"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({videoId: 'p0fybvFyOlM'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/youtube/video', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/youtube/video"

payload = { "videoId": "p0fybvFyOlM" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "videoUrl": "<string>",
    "isShort": true,
    "isLive": true,
    "tags": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "chapters": [
      {
        "startSeconds": 4503599627370495,
        "title": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "mostReplayedAtSeconds": [
      4503599627370495
    ],
    "videoId": "<string>",
    "title": "<string>",
    "channelId": "<string>",
    "channelName": "<string>",
    "channelUrl": "<string>",
    "channelUsername": "<string>",
    "durationSeconds": 0,
    "views": 0,
    "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
    "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "description": "<string>",
    "likes": 0,
    "category": "<string>",
    "comments": 0,
    "channelSubscribers": 0
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

POST

youtube

video

Get a video's stats, description, chapters and most replayed moments

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/youtube/video \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "videoId": "p0fybvFyOlM"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({videoId: 'p0fybvFyOlM'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/youtube/video', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/youtube/video"

payload = { "videoId": "p0fybvFyOlM" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "videoUrl": "<string>",
    "isShort": true,
    "isLive": true,
    "tags": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "chapters": [
      {
        "startSeconds": 4503599627370495,
        "title": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "mostReplayedAtSeconds": [
      4503599627370495
    ],
    "videoId": "<string>",
    "title": "<string>",
    "channelId": "<string>",
    "channelName": "<string>",
    "channelUrl": "<string>",
    "channelUsername": "<string>",
    "durationSeconds": 0,
    "views": 0,
    "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
    "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "description": "<string>",
    "likes": 0,
    "category": "<string>",
    "comments": 0,
    "channelSubscribers": 0
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

Returns a video’s stats, description, chapters and most replayed moments. The video is identified by its URL or ID.

Request

Exactly one of videoUrl or videoId is required. A request that sets both, or none, fails with invalidRequest.

This endpoint can be called without an API key, subject to per-address limits. Pagination requires a key.

import { Stophy } from "stophy";

const stophy = new Stophy({ apiKey: process.env.STOPHY_API_KEY });
const result = await stophy.youtube.video({ videoId: "p0fybvFyOlM" });
console.log(result.data.title);

from stophy import Stophy

stophy = Stophy()  # reads STOPHY_API_KEY
result = stophy.youtube.video(video_id="p0fybvFyOlM")
print(result["data"]["title"])

curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/youtube/video \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STOPHY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"videoId":"p0fybvFyOlM"}'

stophy youtube video --videoId p0fybvFyOlM

Response

If successful, the response body contains the standard envelope. data contains the video’s title, channel, stats, description and tags, plus chapters and most replayed moments when it has them. The following example is a real response, truncated: each list shows one item and long strings are cut.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "videoId": "p0fybvFyOlM",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0fybvFyOlM",
    "title": "A total disaster",
    "channelId": "UCUyeluBRhGPCW4rPe_UvBZQ",
    "channelName": "The PrimeTime",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUyeluBRhGPCW4rPe_UvBZQ",
    "channelUsername": "ThePrimeTimeagen",
    "durationSeconds": 799,
    "views": 699503,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p0fybvFyOlM/hqdefault.jpg",
    "isShort": false,
    "isLive": false,
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-03T03:48:31.000Z",
    "description": "Sandbox aren't enough. Your agents need a devbox. A full development environment with all your dependencies.…",
    "likes": 10482,
    "category": "Science & Technology",
    "tags": ["programming"],
    "comments": 1100,
    "channelSubscribers": 1170000
  },
  "creditsUsed": 1,
  "requestId": "2fe9dbad-fc48-4890-9751-0b24b596035b"
}

Field	Type	Description
`publishedAt`	string (ISO 8601)	When the video was published.
`durationSeconds`	integer	The duration, in seconds.
`likes`	integer	The number of likes.

For every field, see the response schema on this page.

Billing

Each successful request consumes 1 credit, regardless of the number of items returned. Requests that fail, or that return no items, are not billed.

Pagination

This method is not paginated. A single request returns the complete result.

YouTube transcript: Accepts videoUrl. Returns what a YouTube video says, from its captions.
YouTube comments: Accepts videoUrl. Returns a video’s comments, or the replies to one comment.
YouTube channel: Accepts channelUrl. Returns a channel’s profile and one tab of videos, shorts, live, playlists, podcasts or posts.
YouTube channel search: Accepts channelUrl and query. Searches one channel’s videos, equivalent to the search box on its YouTube page.

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

videoUrl

string

Link to the YouTube video, like https://youtu.be/p0fybvFyOlM. Send this or videoId.

videoId

string

YouTube video id, like p0fybvFyOlM. Send this or videoUrl.

Response

The data, and the credits this call used.

success

any

required

data

object

required

Show child attributes

creditsUsed

integer

required

requestId

string

required

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