Get YouTube Video dimensions (width/height)

Question

I’m trying to get the size of a YouTube video. I’m using a Gdata API call to retrieve the basic informations (title, URLs, thumbnails and categories) but I can’t find the vi

Answer 1

Update 2017 - The accepted answer no longer works

If you want to get dimensions for the example video from the question:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms

Then try this URL, using Noembed:

• https://noembed.com/embed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dz_AbfPXTKms

It will return the following JSON:

{
  "version": "1.0",
  "title": "まるです。",
  "author_name": "mugumogu",
  "provider_url": "https://www.youtube.com/",
  "width": 459,
  "height": 344,
  "thumbnail_height": 360,
  "type": "video",
  "thumbnail_width": 480,
  "provider_name": "YouTube",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms",
  "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/user/mugumogu",
  "html": "\n\n",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z_AbfPXTKms/hqdefault.jpg"
}

It also supports JSONP for cross-origin requests:

• https://noembed.com/embed?callback=example&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dz_AbfPXTKms

For more info see this answer:

• Get Youtube information via JSON for single video (not feed) in Javascript

Demo

A simple demo using jQuery:

var id = 'z_AbfPXTKms';
var url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' + id;

$.getJSON('https://noembed.com/embed',
    {format: 'json', url: url}, function (data) {
    alert('Dimensions: ' + data.width + 'x' + data.height);
});

See DEMO on JSBin.