Get video download URLs — YouTube API

Returns every rendition YouTube serves for this video, each with a direct file URL you can download with a plain GET request: no cookies, auth headers, or special HTTP client needed. Above 360p, video and audio are separate renditions to combine.

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GET/v1/youtube/videos/{videoId}/download1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
      "https://konbiniapi.com/ns/social#"
    ],
    "type": "Collection",
    "totalItems": 115,
    "items": [
      {
        "type": "Video",
        "entityId": "18",
        "url": "https://rr2---sn-uxax4vopj5xn-h5ql.googlevideo.com/videoplayback",
        "mediaType": "video/mp4; codecs=\"avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2\"",
        "name": "360p",
        "width": 640,
        "height": 360,
        "fps": 30,
        "bitrate": 586287,
        "size": 254935281,
        "duration": 3479,
        "audioChannels": 2,
        "audioSampleRate": 44100
      }
    ],
    "expiresAt": "2026-10-18T16:58:23.801Z"
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/youtube/videos/{videoId}/download. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

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Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/youtube/videos/plN7JMbadRg/download", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters1

videoIdrequiredIn · PathType · stringYouTube video ID (the v= value from a watch URL)

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