SocialBlade Stats Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

SocialBlade tracks creator/channel growth across YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok, but its own UI only shows one profile at a time with no export. This Actor fetches SocialBlade's own profile data for a list of handles or channel IDs across all four platforms in one run, returning subscriber/follower counts, view counts, content counts, SocialBlade's letter grade, platform/category/country ranks, and a 15-day daily growth history — one normalized row per creator. It does not scrape SocialBlade's Estimated Monthly/Yearly Earnings figures — those numbers load client-side after the page hydrates and aren't present in the data we parse, so we don't fabricate them. What you get instead is broader multi-platform coverage and growth history in one pass, not a single earnings guess.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so SocialBlade sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing and per-target fault isolation — a bad handle or missing profile is skipped and logged, and we back off instead of hammering SocialBlade, so one bad target never fails the whole run.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that land in your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Cross-platform creator benchmarking — compare a creator's YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok stats side by side, something SocialBlade's own UI can't do in one pass.
• Influencer-marketing agency shortlists — pull follower counts, SocialBlade grades, and ranks for a batch of candidate creators before outreach.
• Growth tracking — snapshot the 15-day daily history to spot creators trending up or down.
• Competitive research — monitor a competitor's or client's channel stats over time.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
targets	array	yes	[{'platform': 'youtube', 'handle': 'mrbeast6000'}]	Channels/creators to scrape, one row per target. Each item is either {"platform":…
includeHistory	boolean	no	True	Include the 15-day daily growth history array in each row.
maxItems	integer	no	100	Cap on number of targets processed in one run.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True, 'apifyProxyGroups': ['RESIDENTIAL']}	Apify Proxy config; residential group recommended at scale.

Example input

{
  "targets": [
    {
      "platform": "youtube",
      "handle": "mrbeast6000"
    },
    {
      "platform": "twitch",
      "handle": "pokimane"
    },
    {
      "platform": "instagram",
      "handle": "cristiano"
    },
    {
      "platform": "tiktok",
      "handle": "khaby.lame"
    }
  ],
  "includeHistory": true,
  "maxItems": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
platform	string	Platform this row was scraped from: youtube, twitch, instagram, or tiktok.
handle	string	Username/handle as supplied or resolved.
channel_id	['string', 'null']	SocialBlade's internal channel/user id.
display_name	['string', 'null']	Display name, where SocialBlade exposes it.
avatar_url	['string', 'null']	Profile avatar image URL.
follower_count	integer	Normalized subscriber/follower count.
view_count	['integer', 'null']	Total view count (YouTube only).
content_count	['integer', 'null']	Video/media/post count; null for Twitch (no such field).
grade	string	SocialBlade's own composite letter grade for the channel, e.g. 'A++' — not our assessment.
country	['string', 'null']	Creator's country, where exposed.
ranks	['object', 'null']	SocialBlade rank breakdown: sb, primary, views, country, category.
engagement_rate	['number', 'null']	Instagram-only average engagement rate.
avg_likes	['number', 'null']	Instagram-only average likes per post.
avg_comments	['number', 'null']	Instagram-only average comments per post.
total_likes	['integer', 'null']	TikTok-only lifetime total likes (not per-post).
verified	['boolean', 'null']	TikTok-only verified-badge flag.
growth_history	array	Up to 15 daily snapshots; empty when include_history=false or unavailable on SocialBlade's side.
source_url	string	Resolved SocialBlade profile URL that was fetched.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp this row was written.

Example output

{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "handle": "MrBeast",
  "channel_id": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
  "display_name": "MrBeast",
  "avatar_url": "https://.../avatar.jpg",
  "follower_count": 512000000,
  "view_count": 136403988890,
  "content_count": 996,
  "grade": "A++",
  "country": "US",
  "ranks": {
    "sb": 7,
    "primary": 1,
    "views": 6,
    "country": 1,
    "category": 1
  },
  "growth_history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "follower_count": 511998200,
      "view_count": 136403001234,
      "content_count": 996
    }
  ],
  "source_url": "https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/mrbeast6000",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-10T12:00:00Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.02	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-emitted	$0.001	Per unique dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $1.02. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

v1 covers YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok only — other platforms SocialBlade tracks are out of scope. Estimated Monthly/Yearly Earnings are not scraped — that figure loads client-side after hydration and isn't present in the data we parse. Growth history is capped at SocialBlade's own 15-day window — no backfill beyond that.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a SocialBlade account or API key?

No. This Actor reads SocialBlade's own publicly listed profile data — no login, no API key.

Does this include SocialBlade's Estimated Monthly/Yearly Earnings figures?

No. Those numbers load client-side after the page hydrates and aren't present in the data we parse — v1 doesn't fabricate or estimate them. This Actor's edge is broader multi-platform coverage plus growth history in one pass, not an earnings guess.

Why is growth_history sometimes an empty array?

Some accounts (confirmed on Instagram) don't have a populated history query on SocialBlade's side. The row still emits with growth_history: [] instead of failing.

Can I mix platforms in one run?

Yes — targets accepts any mix of platform/handle pairs (or direct URLs) across all four supported platforms in a single run.

Is the letter grade our assessment?

No — grade is SocialBlade's own composite score (e.g. A++, D), passed through as-is. We don't compute or adjust it.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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