[GH-ISSUE #364] Is there a way to extract full description of a music video? #289

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opened 2026-02-27 22:09:01 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

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Originally created by @ryq99 on GitHub (Mar 23, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/issues/364

I'm extracting music data with .get_song(), I'm able to see the video description under result['microformat']['microformatDataRenderer']['description']. However, I found it's just the shortened description not the full one. Take Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) as an example, the video id is 'ApXoWvfEYVU', I have the description as follows:

"description": "Own Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse on Digital 2/26 and Blu-ray on 3/19 Blu-ray: http://sonypictures.us/ueaRau Digital: http://sonypictures.us/Wnbe3e "S...".

I'm wondering if there is a way to get the full description like we can get on the page by expanding it?

Originally created by @ryq99 on GitHub (Mar 23, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/issues/364 I'm extracting music data with .get_song(), I'm able to see the video description under result['microformat']['microformatDataRenderer']['description']. However, I found it's just the shortened description not the full one. Take Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) as an example, the video id is 'ApXoWvfEYVU', I have the description as follows: "description": "Own Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse on Digital 2/26 and Blu-ray on 3/19 Blu-ray: http://sonypictures.us/ueaRau Digital: http://sonypictures.us/Wnbe3e \"S...". I'm wondering if there is a way to get the full description like we can get on the page by expanding it?

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kerem commented

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@vixalien commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2023):

prettu sure that description is not exposed in youtube music, only in youtube

@vixalien commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2023): prettu sure that description is not exposed in youtube music, only in youtube

kerem commented

2026-02-27 22:09:02 +03:00

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@ryq99 commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2023):

Then I guess I will probably have to use the official Youtube API to get it, pretty sure it has the full description of videos. Thanks!

@ryq99 commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2023): Then I guess I will probably have to use the official Youtube API to get it, pretty sure it has the full description of videos. Thanks!

kerem commented

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@sigma67 commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2023):

Yes, this is not under our control. There's actually very little parsing happening for get_song, the data is returned pretty much exactly as it is returned by the server:

github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi@19ad424e0e/ytmusicapi/mixins/browsing.py (L596-L615)

@sigma67 commented on GitHub (Mar 24, 2023): Yes, this is not under our control. There's actually very little parsing happening for `get_song`, the data is returned pretty much exactly as it is returned by the server: https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/blob/19ad424e0e59b1908fcb767f8b85a83ecf5ecde2/ytmusicapi/mixins/browsing.py#L596-L615

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