OpenGraphr + YouTube: Extract Open Graph information from YouTube using our API

We are super glad to announce that we are successfully integrated with YouTube!

Now, with just an API call including a YouTube link we will extract the metadata information from the video and give back to you the thumbnail, video title and description, and much more!

Extracting information from a YouTube link

First of all, enter your profile and copy your token. You will need it for the following steps :-)

We will be making a GET request to the following API endpoint:

https://api.opengraphr.com/v1/og

To make a request, you will need to include your api_token and the requested url:

GET https://api.opengraphr.com/v1/og?api_token={YOUR_API_TOKEN}&url={YOUR_URL}

By default, our API will cache results for a month, but you can refresh the cache by sending the force=1 parameter:

GET https://api.opengraphr.com/v1/og?api_token={YOUR_API_TOKEN}&url={YOUR_URL}&force=1

YouTube Metadata

Once the GET request is sent, you will get a response like this from our API. In this case, we are requesting the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg

{
  "title": "OneRepublic - Counting Stars (Official Music Video)",
  "description": "Listen to OneRepublic's new single \"Wanted,\" out now: http://smarturl.it/Wanted1RShop OneRepublic: http://smarturl.it/1RShopSign up for email updates: http:/...",
  "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hT_nvWreIhg/maxresdefault.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg",
  "raw": {
    "title": "OneRepublic - Counting Stars (Official Music Video) - YouTube",
    "metadescription": "Listen to OneRepublic's new single \"Wanted,\" out now: http://smarturl.it/Wanted1RShop OneRepublic: http://smarturl.it/1RShopSign up for email updates: http:/...",
    "og_site_name": "YouTube",
    "og_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg",
    "og_title": "OneRepublic - Counting Stars (Official Music Video)",
    "og_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hT_nvWreIhg/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "og_image_width": 1280,
    "og_image_height": 720,
    "og_description": "Listen to OneRepublic's new single \"Wanted,\" out now: http://smarturl.it/Wanted1RShop OneRepublic: http://smarturl.it/1RShopSign up for email updates: http:/...",
    "og_type": "video.other",
    "og_video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/hT_nvWreIhg",
    "og_video_secure_url": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/hT_nvWreIhg",
    "og_video_type": "text/html",
    "og_video_width": 1280,
    "og_video_height": 720,
    "og_video_tag": "onerepublic counting stars",
    "twitter_card": "player",
    "twitter_site": "@youtube",
    "twitter_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg",
    "twitter_title": "OneRepublic - Counting Stars (Official Music Video)",
    "twitter_description": "Listen to OneRepublic's new single \"Wanted,\" out now: http://smarturl.it/Wanted1RShop OneRepublic: http://smarturl.it/1RShopSign up for email updates: http:/...",
    "twitter_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hT_nvWreIhg/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "twitter_app_name_iphone": "YouTube",
    "twitter_app_id_iphone": 544007664,
    "twitter_app_name_ipad": "YouTube",
    "twitter_app_id_ipad": 544007664,
    "twitter_app_url_iphone": "vnd.youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg&feature=applinks",
    "twitter_app_url_ipad": "vnd.youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg&feature=applinks",
    "twitter_app_name_googleplay": "YouTube",
    "twitter_app_id_googleplay": "com.google.android.youtube",
    "twitter_app_url_googleplay": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg",
    "twitter_player": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/hT_nvWreIhg",
    "twitter_player_width": 1280,
    "twitter_player_height": 720
  }
}

And that's it! Easy, right? 🤩 Now let's see some examples of how to implement this using actual code!

Extract YouTube information using PHP

You can easily get the Open Graph information of a given YouTube link by using the following script in PHP

$token = 'YOUR_TOKEN';
$url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg';

$requestUrl = 'https://api.opengraphr.com/v1/og?api_token=' . $token . '&url=' . urlencode($url);
$response = json_decode(file_get_contents($requestUrl), true);

var_dump($response);

Extract YouTube information using JavaScript

You can easily get the Open Graph information of a given YouTube URL by using the following script in plain JS:

const token = 'YOUR_TOKEN'
const url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg'

const requestUrl = `https://api.opengraphr.com/v1/og?api_token=${token}&url=${encodeURIComponent(url)}`
fetch(requestUrl)
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(og => {
        console.table(og)
    })

Extract YouTube information using NodeJS

You can easily get the Open Graph information of a given YouTube URL by using the following script in NodeJS:

const axios = require('axios')
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const token = 'YOUR_TOKEN'

app.get('/site/info', async (req, res) => {
    const { url } = req.query
    const requestUrl = 'https://api.opengraphr.com/v1/og'

    const response = await axios.get(requestUrl, {
        params: {
            url,
            api_token: token,
            // force: 1,
        },
    })
    const og = response.data
    res.json(og)
})

app.listen(3000, function () {
  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!')
})

Extract YouTube information using C

You can easily get the Open Graph information of a given YouTube URL by using the following script in C-Sharp:

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace CSharpDemo
{
    class MainClass
    {
        public static void Main (string[] args)
        {
            var token = 'YOUR_TOKEN';
            var url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg';
            var urlEncoded = Uri.EscapeDataString(url);

            var requestUrl = "https://api.opengraphr.com/api/og?api_token=" + token + "&url=" + urlEncoded;

            var request = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl);
            request.ContentType = "application/json;";

            string text;

            var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

            using (var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                text = sr.ReadToEnd();

                dynamic og = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(text);

                Console.WriteLine("Title\t\t" + og.title);
                Console.WriteLine("Description\t" + og.description);
                Console.WriteLine("Image\t\t" + og.image);
            }
        }
    }
}

Extract YouTube information using Python

You can easily get the Open Graph information of a given YouTube URL by using the following script in Python:

import requests

TOKEN = 'YOUR_TOKEN'
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg'

endpoint = 'https://api.opengraphr.com/api/og'
response = requests.get(endpoint, params={ 'url': url, 'api_token': TOKEN }).json()
print(response)