YouTube — single video/Short by URL
curl --request POST \
--url https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"include_transcript": true,
"include_comments": true
}
'import requests
url = "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post"
payload = {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"include_transcript": True,
"include_comments": True
}
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ',
include_transcript: true,
include_comments: true
})
};
fetch('https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'url' => 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ',
'include_transcript' => true,
'include_comments' => true
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"url\": \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\",\n \"include_transcript\": true,\n \"include_comments\": true\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"url\": \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\",\n \"include_transcript\": true,\n \"include_comments\": true\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"url\": \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\",\n \"include_transcript\": true,\n \"include_comments\": true\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": {
"posts": [
{
"id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)\n\nThe official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.\n\nNever: The Autobiography 📚 OUT NOW!\nFoll…",
"views": 1801735310,
"likes": 19319673,
"comments": 2452568,
"shares": 0,
"bookmarks": 0,
"uploadedAt": 1256453853,
"uploadedAtFormatted": "2009-10-25T06:57:33.000Z",
"postPage": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"creator": "Rick Astley",
"thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/…",
"videoUrl": "https://rr9---sn-uhvcpax0n5-jbnd.googlevideo.com/…",
"platform": "youtube",
"hashtags": [
"officialmusicvideo",
"rickastleynever"
],
"region": null,
"transcript": "[♪♪♪] ♪ We're no strangers to love ♪ ♪ You know the rules and so do I ♪ ♪ A full commitment's what I'm thinking of ♪ ♪ You wouldn't get this from any other guy ♪ ♪ I just wanna …",
"topComments": [
{
"id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
"author": "YouTube",
"text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
"likeCount": 296000,
"replyCount": 961,
"timestamp": 1754619966
},
{
"id": "UgxTsG2dsspEiq6MAZJ4AaABAg",
"author": "MariahRhona",
"text": "who came here saying this video was taken down",
"likeCount": 37000,
"replyCount": 983,
"timestamp": 1785551166
}
]
}
],
"profile_pictures": {
"Rick Astley": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/…"
}
},
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70",
"upstream_calls": 1,
"meta": {
"credits_charged": 1,
"credits_remaining": 9998
}
}{
"error": "INVALID_INPUT",
"message": "Invalid username: must match @?[a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,100}",
"field": "username",
"reason": "must match @?[a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,100}",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "UNAUTHORIZED",
"message": "Scraper routes require an independent scraper key from the Scraper API dashboard.",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "INSUFFICIENT_SCRAPER_CREDITS",
"message": "Insufficient scraper credits",
"platform": "tiktok",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "POST_NOT_FOUND",
"message": "Post not found or unavailable.",
"platform": "instagram",
"identifier": "https://instagram.com/reel/XXXX/",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE",
"message": "Request body must be 32KB or smaller",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "SCRAPER_RATE_LIMITED",
"message": "Scraper API rate limit exceeded",
"platform": "tiktok",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "SCRAPER_USAGE_FINALIZE_FAILED",
"message": "Request could not be finalized. Your credits were refunded.",
"platform": "tiktok",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "UPSTREAM_ERROR",
"message": "Data source failed. Your credits were refunded.",
"platform": "youtube",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT",
"message": "Data source timed out. Your credits were refunded.",
"platform": "facebook",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}Returns full detail, including the short-lived googlevideo.com videoUrl that listings never carry and a comments count where the listing returned 0. 1 credit.
POST
/
scrape
/
youtube
/
post
YouTube — single video/Short by URL
curl --request POST \
--url https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"include_transcript": true,
"include_comments": true
}
'import requests
url = "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post"
payload = {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"include_transcript": True,
"include_comments": True
}
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ',
include_transcript: true,
include_comments: true
})
};
fetch('https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'url' => 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ',
'include_transcript' => true,
'include_comments' => true
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"url\": \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\",\n \"include_transcript\": true,\n \"include_comments\": true\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"url\": \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\",\n \"include_transcript\": true,\n \"include_comments\": true\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/youtube/post")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"url\": \"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\",\n \"include_transcript\": true,\n \"include_comments\": true\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": {
"posts": [
{
"id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)\n\nThe official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.\n\nNever: The Autobiography 📚 OUT NOW!\nFoll…",
"views": 1801735310,
"likes": 19319673,
"comments": 2452568,
"shares": 0,
"bookmarks": 0,
"uploadedAt": 1256453853,
"uploadedAtFormatted": "2009-10-25T06:57:33.000Z",
"postPage": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
"creator": "Rick Astley",
"thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/…",
"videoUrl": "https://rr9---sn-uhvcpax0n5-jbnd.googlevideo.com/…",
"platform": "youtube",
"hashtags": [
"officialmusicvideo",
"rickastleynever"
],
"region": null,
"transcript": "[♪♪♪] ♪ We're no strangers to love ♪ ♪ You know the rules and so do I ♪ ♪ A full commitment's what I'm thinking of ♪ ♪ You wouldn't get this from any other guy ♪ ♪ I just wanna …",
"topComments": [
{
"id": "Ugzge340dBgB75hWBm54AaABAg",
"author": "YouTube",
"text": "can confirm: he never gave us up",
"likeCount": 296000,
"replyCount": 961,
"timestamp": 1754619966
},
{
"id": "UgxTsG2dsspEiq6MAZJ4AaABAg",
"author": "MariahRhona",
"text": "who came here saying this video was taken down",
"likeCount": 37000,
"replyCount": 983,
"timestamp": 1785551166
}
]
}
],
"profile_pictures": {
"Rick Astley": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/…"
}
},
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70",
"upstream_calls": 1,
"meta": {
"credits_charged": 1,
"credits_remaining": 9998
}
}{
"error": "INVALID_INPUT",
"message": "Invalid username: must match @?[a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,100}",
"field": "username",
"reason": "must match @?[a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,100}",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "UNAUTHORIZED",
"message": "Scraper routes require an independent scraper key from the Scraper API dashboard.",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "INSUFFICIENT_SCRAPER_CREDITS",
"message": "Insufficient scraper credits",
"platform": "tiktok",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "POST_NOT_FOUND",
"message": "Post not found or unavailable.",
"platform": "instagram",
"identifier": "https://instagram.com/reel/XXXX/",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE",
"message": "Request body must be 32KB or smaller",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "SCRAPER_RATE_LIMITED",
"message": "Scraper API rate limit exceeded",
"platform": "tiktok",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "SCRAPER_USAGE_FINALIZE_FAILED",
"message": "Request could not be finalized. Your credits were refunded.",
"platform": "tiktok",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "UPSTREAM_ERROR",
"message": "Data source failed. Your credits were refunded.",
"platform": "youtube",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}{
"error": "UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT",
"message": "Data source timed out. Your credits were refunded.",
"platform": "facebook",
"request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}Body
application/json
URL of the post on the platform. The canonical form is recommended but not required: query strings and a missing scheme are accepted, as is twitter.com for an X post. Whatever you send is echoed back verbatim in postPage, so normalise it yourself if you key on that field.
Example:
"https://www.tiktok.com/@mrbeast/video/7651447222449556767"
Set true to request a transcript from the single-post details endpoints that support one (TikTok, YouTube, Facebook). Instagram, Snapchat, X and LinkedIn do not support transcript retrieval and always return transcript: null, even when the flag is supplied. The response field is null when a transcript is unavailable or not requested.
Set true to request a sample of the post's comments in topComments. Supported on TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook. Instagram, Snapchat, X, and LinkedIn do not support comment retrieval and always return topComments: null, even when the flag is supplied. This returns a top-weighted SAMPLE capped per platform (YouTube 20, Facebook 10, TikTok up to 50), in the platform's own feed order rather than sorted by likeCount, and never the full thread — see the topComments field for details. Costs no extra credits.
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