YouTube Channel Snapshot — subscribers, views, country, links, upload cadence and median views, no API key

Get the public facts of any YouTube channel in one row: title, handle, subscribers, total views, video count, country, created date, about text, links and social accounts, how often the channel uploads, and the median views of its newest videos. Give it channel URLs, @handles or channel IDs. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel or Google Sheets. No YouTube Data API key and no login.

Who uses this: brand and influencer teams checking creators before a deal, agencies building creator lists, researchers comparing channels, sales teams looking for a creator's website and social links, AI agents that need current channel facts.

What you get per channel

Field	What it is
channelId, handle, url, title	Who the channel is
subscriberCount, subscribersText	Subscribers. YouTube rounds this number, for example 21.3M subscribers
totalViews	Lifetime views of the channel, exact
videoCount	Number of public videos, exact
country, createdDate	Country the channel set, and the day it was created (YYYY-MM-DD)
about	The channel description
links	Links the channel lists, as { "title": "Twitter", "url": "http://twitter.com/MKBHD" }
uploadsPer30Days	How many videos the channel uploads per 30 days, estimated from its newest videos
medianViewsLast30	Median views of the newest videos, up to 30
videosAnalyzed, latestUploadAgo	How many videos the two numbers above are based on, and how long ago the newest one went up
scrapedAt	When the row was collected

Price

$0.01 per run + $2 per 1,000 channels. That is two pay-per-event charges: actor-start ($0.01) once per run and result ($0.002) per channel. No compute fees on top. The free Apify plan ($5 per month credit) covers about 2,400 channels a month at no cost. A run that YouTube blocks before it returns any data is not charged.

How to use

1. Open the Input tab and add channels: a URL such as https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, an @handle, or a channel ID that starts with UC.
2. Click Start. Each channel takes about a second.
3. Open the Output tab and export the table as CSV, JSON or Excel, or send it to Google Sheets with Apify's Google Sheets integration.

Input example

{
    "channels": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
        "@veritasium",
        "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"
    ]
}

Output example

{
    "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
    "handle": "@mkbhd",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
    "title": "Marques Brownlee",
    "subscriberCount": 21300000,
    "subscribersText": "21.3M subscribers",
    "totalViews": 5699843192,
    "videoCount": 1853,
    "country": "United States",
    "createdDate": "2008-03-21",
    "about": "MKBHD: Quality Tech Videos | YouTuber | Geek | Consumer Electronics | Tech Head | Internet Personality! ...",
    "links": [
        { "title": "Twitter", "url": "http://twitter.com/MKBHD" },
        { "title": "Instagram", "url": "http://instagram.com/MKBHD" }
    ],
    "uploadsPer30Days": 5.7,
    "medianViewsLast30": 4600000,
    "videosAnalyzed": 30,
    "latestUploadAgo": "1d ago",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-26T06:08:57.684Z"
}

Limits

• Only public data from the channel pages. No login, no private data, and no e-mail addresses. YouTube hides business e-mails behind a sign-in.
• YouTube rounds subscribers (21.3M) and the view counts of single videos (7.1M). Total views and video count are exact. medianViewsLast30 is therefore accurate to about 2 digits.
• YouTube shows only "2 weeks ago", not the date of each upload. uploadsPer30Days is an estimate, good to about one video for busy channels.
• The numbers use regular videos. Shorts and live streams have their own tabs and are not counted.
• Channels that hide their subscriber count have subscriberCount: null.
• If a run fails with 403 or 429, turn on Proxy and choose Residential.

FAQ

Can I track a creator over time? Yes. Schedule the actor in Apify with the same channels and compare totalViews and subscriberCount between runs.

Why is a channel missing from the result? The URL, handle or ID was not found. The run log names it. The other channels are still saved.

Can an AI agent use it? Yes. It works through Apify's API and MCP server. Give it a list of channels.

Something is wrong. What now? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the channel and the input. Field requests are welcome.

Changelog

• 0.1 First release: channel facts, links, upload cadence, median views, pay per event.