YouTube Channel Scraper: All Videos & Channel Stats

Scrape every video of a YouTube channel into JSON, CSV or Excel. Paste channel URLs or names and get one row per video with title, URL, views, upload date, duration and thumbnail, and the channel's info on every row: subscribers, total views, number of videos, country, join date, description and avatar.

• No API key, no quota, no login. It reads what youtube.com shows a logged-out visitor.
• Whole channels: pages through the Videos tab until maxResults or the channel's first video.
• Newest, popular or oldest first, the same sort buttons as on the channel page.
• Shorts and live streams on request (type says which).
• Date limit: only videos from the last 30 days, 6 months, or since a date.
• Full details on request: exact views, likes, comment count, exact upload time, description, tags, category.
• Monitoring: scheduled runs that return only videos you haven't received yet.

This Actor is a focused version of the YouTube Scraper (same code). Use the YouTube Scraper if you also need search, playlists, hashtags, comments, community posts or subtitles.

What can you use it for?

• Influencer and creator research: subscribers, upload frequency, views per video, country.
• Competitor tracking: what your competitors published this month and how it performed.
• Content research: a channel's most popular videos, titles and lengths.
• Monitoring: a daily list of new uploads from a set of channels.

Input

Field	What it does
startUrls	Channel URLs: youtube.com/@MrBeast, /channel/UC…, /c/…, /user/….
channels	Optional: channel names or handles (nasa, @mkbhd). Same as the URL.
maxResults	Max videos per channel. Default 20. 0 = one channel info row per channel, no videos.
sortVideosBy	NEWEST (default), POPULAR or OLDEST.
includeShorts / includeStreams	Also scrape the Shorts tab / the Live tab, up to maxResults each.
oldestPostDate	Only videos published after a date (2026-01-31) or an age (30 days). Forces newest first.
includeVideoDetails	Open every video for likes, exact counts, exact upload time, description and tags. Slower, same price.
onlyNewSinceLastRun + monitorName	Skip videos an earlier run with the same monitoring name returned.

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd" }], "channels": ["veritasium"], "maxResults": 500, "includeShorts": true }

channelUrls and youtubeHandles are understood too. The field names above are the same as in the YouTube Scraper, so an input works in both.

Output example

{
    "type": "video",
    "id": "v9QtM6qnG50",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9QtM6qnG50",
    "title": "I Built A City To Save Kids From Illegal Labor",
    "viewCount": 82000000,
    "viewCountText": "82M views",
    "date": "2026-09-20T11:40:00.000Z",
    "dateText": "10 days ago",
    "dateIsExact": false,
    "duration": "00:19:02",
    "durationSeconds": 1142,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v9QtM6qnG50/hq720.jpg",
    "channelId": "UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "channelName": "MrBeast",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA",
    "channelUsername": "MrBeast",
    "numberOfSubscribers": 519000000,
    "isChannelVerified": true,
    "channelDescription": "SUBSCRIBE FOR A COOKIE! …",
    "channelLocation": "United States",
    "channelJoinedDate": "Feb 19, 2012",
    "channelTotalVideos": 1004,
    "channelTotalViews": 141227305543,
    "channelAvatarUrl": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/…",
    "fromChannelListPage": "videos",
    "order": 0,
    "fromYTUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast/videos",
    "input": "https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T11:40:00.000Z"
}

Rows have more fields (likes, description, tags, chapters, …) that are filled with includeVideoDetails and null otherwise. Values YouTube doesn't show on the channel page are null, never a made-up 0. Shorts rows have "type": "shorts", streams "type": "stream" and liveStatus. With maxResults: 0 each channel gives one row with "type": "channel" and the channel fields only.

How much does it cost?

Pay per result, platform usage (compute and proxy) included. One result = one video, Short, stream or channel-info row.

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 results
Free	$0.80
Starter (Bronze)	$0.55
Scale (Silver)	$0.45
Business (Gold) and above	$0.35

1,000 videos from 10 channels cost $0.80 on the Free plan and $0.35 on Business. includeVideoDetails does not change the price. Inputs that fail (a deleted video, an unknown channel, a URL this Actor doesn't take) produce no row and no charge, and so do rows skipped by monitoring.

Monitoring (only new videos)

Turn on Only new videos since my last run, give it a name (e.g. competitors-daily) and schedule the run. Each run looks at the newest maxResults videos of each channel and returns only the ones no earlier run with that name returned. Skipped videos are not charged.

Limitations

• The channel page shows rounded numbers: views as "82M views" (viewCount is then 82000000) and dates as "10 days ago" (date is estimated and dateIsExact is false). Turn on includeVideoDetails for exact views, likes and upload times (about 5-10x slower, same price per row).
• Shorts tiles have no date or duration. With oldestPostDate each Short's date is looked up automatically.
• Popular / Oldest sorting needs the sort buttons YouTube shows on the channel; a channel without them is scraped newest first (logged).
• Members-only and private videos are not listed to logged-out visitors.
• Subscriber counts are rounded the way YouTube shows them ("519M").
• An unknown channel fails only that input; it is named in the status message and the NOT_FOUND record.

FAQ

Do I need a YouTube account or an API key? No.

Is it legal? It collects publicly visible data. You are responsible for how you use it, including data protection rules for personal data.

Why did my run say "partial"? Some channels could not be finished (for example the run hit its timeout). Everything scraped so far is in the dataset; the status message says what was missed.

More scrapers from the same developer

• YouTube Scraper: videos, channels, Shorts, comments, subtitles and community posts without the API quota
• YouTube Comments Scraper: comments and replies of any video, top or newest first
• YouTube Shorts Scraper: Shorts from any channel or keyword search
• Google Trends API & Scraper: interest over time, regions, related queries and Trending Now, a pytrends alternative
• Threads Scraper: posts, profiles, replies and keyword search on Meta Threads, no login
• Bilibili Scraper: videos, creators, full comment threads and danmaku from B站, no login
• Google Hotels Scraper: hotel prices from every booking site across dates, room rates and reviews
• Google Ads Transparency Scraper: every Google ad a competitor runs, with the real ad copy
• Threads Account Finder: Threads accounts by keyword with followers, bio links and the contacts they list
• Threads Hashtag & Keyword Monitor: only the new posts for your keywords and #hashtags, for scheduled runs
• Google Flights Scraper: flight prices, airlines, layovers and a cheapest-date calendar for any route

Feedback

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