---
title: Info | Vid Kraken API
description: Fetch metadata for a YouTube video without queueing a download.
url: https://vidkraken.com/docs/endpoint/tag/info
updated: '2026-10-24'
---

# Info

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Fetch metadata for a YouTube video without queueing a download.

## Endpoints

### [Submit a video-info job](https://vidkraken.com/docs/endpoint/submit-video-info.md)

`POST /info`

Queue a job that fetches metadata for a YouTube video — title and
duration. Returns a `jobId` that you poll on `GET /info/{jobId}`.

Set `includeAudioTracks: true` to also resolve the list of available
audio tracks (original + dubbed languages, if any). Audio tracks
require a full extraction, which is slower and can occasionally fail
on hard-to-reach videos — only request them when you need to pick an
audio language ahead of a download.

Useful for showing video details in your UI before queueing a
download, or for picking an audio language ahead of time.

Job state is kept in Redis with a 1-hour TTL — make sure to
poll within that window.

**Cost:** 1 info request from your plan's info quota, on
success only. No bandwidth cost. Failures are not charged.

### [Get video-info job status](https://vidkraken.com/docs/endpoint/get-video-info-status.md)

`GET /info/{jobId}`

Poll the status of a previously-submitted video-info job.

- `pending` — still fetching metadata

- `success` — `result` contains the resolved `VideoInfo`

- `failed` — `error` carries a human-readable message and, for recognised
  video conditions, `errorCode` identifies it (see `DownloadErrorCode`)

Job state expires from Redis 1 hour after submission; polling
after that returns `404`.

**Cost:** Free — polling is never charged.

Full API reference: https://vidkraken.com/docs.md