Youtube Community Posts Scraper Max Iteam

📢 YouTube Community Posts Scraper – Overview

The YouTube Community Posts Scraper collects public posts from the Posts tab of the YouTube channels you choose. Add handles, channel IDs or channel URLs, set a per-channel post limit, and get one structured record per post.

Each record the YouTube Community Posts Scraper returns includes the post text, post type (text, image, video or poll), like and comment counts, hashtags, links, image URLs, channel details and timestamps.

It is built for marketers, social media analysts, agencies, researchers and developers who follow creator updates. Instead of copying announcements by hand, export a clean dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the Apify API.

💡 Quick start: Enter one handle such as tseries, keep Max post per channel at 20, and click Start. YouTube Community Posts Scraper results appear in the Output tab while the run is in progress.

✨ YouTube Community Posts Scraper – Key Features

Feature	What it means for you
🔗 Three input types	Handles or usernames, UC… channel IDs and channel URLs, alone or combined
🔄 URL conversion	Every input is converted to the channel's /posts page
🧹 Duplicate protection	Inputs that resolve to the same posts page are scraped once
🔢 Per-channel limit	maxposts caps the posts saved from each channel
📄 Page-by-page loading	Older posts load until the limit is reached or the channel runs out
🏷️ Post type detection	Each post is labelled text, image, video or poll
📈 Engagement metrics	Likes and comments as text (96K) and integers (96000)
🖼️ Image data	Image URLs with width and height

📊 What Data Does the YouTube Community Posts Scraper Extract?

Every dataset item from the YouTube Community Posts Scraper describes one community post:

• Post: ID, URL, type, full text, hashtags and external links
• Channel: name, ID, URL, avatar and handle
• Engagement: like count, comment count and total votes
• Media: image objects, image URLs and the video link for video posts
• Timing: relative publish time, approximate publish date and scrape time

📌 Note: Polls are flagged with is_poll: true plus a vote total, without individual options. Video posts carry the video's watch URL in media_urls.

🚀 How to Use the YouTube Community Posts Scraper

• Step 1: Open the YouTube Community Posts Scraper in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
• Step 2: Add channels to Channel usernames or handles, Channel IDs or Start URLs.
• Step 3: Set Max post per channel (maxposts). The default is 20.
• Step 4: Click Start and watch posts arrive in the Output tab.
• Step 5: Export the dataset or fetch it through the Apify API.

🔄 What Happens During a Run

• The YouTube Community Posts Scraper merges the input lists in this order: usernames, channel IDs, start URLs.
• Posts are read in the order shown on the Posts tab and saved immediately.
• When the limit is reached or no posts remain, the Actor moves to the next channel.
• A channel page that cannot be loaded is skipped with a run log message; other channels continue.

💡 Tip: No YouTube account or API key is needed. The YouTube Community Posts Scraper works with public channel pages and handles connections automatically.

🎯 YouTube Community Posts Scraper – Use Cases

Use case	How the data helps
📈 Competitor monitoring	Track what rival channels announce and how their audience reacts
🤝 Influencer research	Compare audience engagement across creators before a collaboration
🗓️ Content planning	See which post types (images, polls, text) get more interaction
🏷️ Brand and hashtag tracking	Search post text for brand names, hashtags and shared links
🎓 Market and academic research	Build datasets of creator-to-audience communication over time
📊 Reporting dashboards	Send scheduled YouTube Community Posts Scraper runs to BI tools or databases

💡 Why Use This YouTube Community Posts Scraper?

Benefit	Details
No coding needed	Fill in a form and start the run
Flexible input	Mix handles, channel IDs and URLs in one run
Predictable volume	The per-channel limit keeps result counts under control
Automation	Schedules, webhooks, integrations and the Apify API
Pay for results	Only posts the YouTube Community Posts Scraper saves to the dataset count

📥 YouTube Community Posts Scraper Input

The YouTube Community Posts Scraper has four input fields. Channel fields accept multiple values and can be combined.

Field	Title in Console	Type	Prefill / default	What it does
Channel_usernames	Channel usernames or handles	Array of strings	Prefill ["tseries"]	Handles with or without @; MrBeast becomes https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast/posts
channelIds	Channel IDs	Array of strings	Prefill ["UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw"]	IDs starting with UC, converted to https://www.youtube.com/channel/<ID>/posts
startUrls	Start URLs	Array of { "url": "..." }	Two channel posts URLs	Channel URLs; /posts is added when missing
maxposts	Max post per channel	Integer	Default 20	Maximum posts saved from each channel

🔗 Accepted Channel URL Formats

• https://www.youtube.com/@Handle or https://www.youtube.com/@Handle/posts
• https://www.youtube.com/c/CustomName or https://www.youtube.com/user/LegacyName
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxx

⚠️ Important: Start URLs must point to a channel, not a single post or another tab such as /videos. The YouTube Community Posts Scraper adds /posts to the end of the URL, so remove parameters like ?si=... from copied share links.

🧾 Sample Input

{
  "Channel_usernames": ["tseries"],
  "channelIds": ["UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw"],
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@PenMovies/posts" },
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@PlayDMF/posts" }
  ],
  "maxposts": 20
}

This input asks the YouTube Community Posts Scraper for up to 20 posts from each of four channels, so at most 80 posts.

📤 YouTube Community Posts Scraper Output

Each community post is a separate item in the default dataset. Only successfully extracted posts are stored; there are no error or status rows.

🧾 Sample Output

{
  "status": "Success",
  "post_id": "UgkxQ7m2HkP9sLr4TnVb8cWz1YxE5aFdJ3uG",
  "post_url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxQ7m2HkP9sLr4TnVb8cWz1YxE5aFdJ3uG",
  "channel_id": "UCq-Fj5jknLsUf-MWSy4_brA",
  "channel_name": "T-Series",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@tseries",
  "channel_thumbnail_url": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...=s76-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo",
  "author_name": "T-Series",
  "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@tseries",
  "author_handle": "@@tseries",
  "post_type": "image",
  "attachment_type": "image",
  "content_text": "New song out now 🎶 #TSeries #NewMusic\nWatch here 👉 https://youtu.be/abc123XYZ",
  "published_time_text": "2 days ago",
  "published_time": "2026-09-27T10:15:00Z",
  "like_count": 12000,
  "like_count_text": "12K",
  "comment_count": 345,
  "comment_count_text": "345",
  "hashtags": ["#TSeries", "#NewMusic"],
  "images": [
    { "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...", "width": 1080, "height": 1080 }
  ],
  "image_urls": ["https://yt3.ggpht.com/..."],
  "image_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...",
  "media_urls": ["https://yt3.ggpht.com/..."],
  "external_links": ["https://youtu.be/abc123XYZ"],
  "total_votes": 12000,
  "is_poll": false,
  "is_quiz": false,
  "comment_threads_url": "https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxQ7m2HkP9sLr4TnVb8cWz1YxE5aFdJ3uG",
  "image_download_urls": ["https://yt3.ggpht.com/..."],
  "detected_language": "en",
  "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@tseries/posts",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-29T10:15:00Z"
}

📋 Data Fields

Field	Type	Description
status	String	Always Success
post_id	String	Post ID
post_url, comment_threads_url	String	Link to the post and its comments
channel_id	String	Channel ID (UC…)
channel_name, author_name	String	Channel name
channel_url, author_url	String	Channel link
channel_thumbnail_url	String / null	Channel avatar URL
author_handle	String	Handle; currently starts with a doubled @
post_type, attachment_type	String	text, image, video or poll
content_text	String	Full post text
published_time_text	String	Relative time, e.g. 3 weeks ago
published_time	String / null	Approximate UTC timestamp
like_count	Integer / null	Likes as a number
like_count_text	String	Likes as displayed
comment_count	Integer / null	Comments as a number
comment_count_text	String	Comments as displayed
hashtags	Array	Hashtags in the text
images	Array	Objects with url, width, height
image_urls	Array	Image URLs (empty if none)
image_url	String / null	First image URL
media_urls	Array	Image URLs, or the video watch URL for video posts
external_links	Array	Web links in the text
total_votes	Integer / null	Poll votes for polls, likes otherwise
is_poll	Boolean	true for polls
is_quiz	Boolean	Always false currently
image_download_urls	Array / null	Image URLs, null if none
detected_language	String	Fixed en, not a real detection
source_url	String	Channel posts page
scraped_at	String	UTC scrape time

💡 Tip: author_handle currently contains two @ characters (for example @@tseries). Remove one, or take the clean handle from channel_url.

🔗 How to Scrape Community Posts from Multiple YouTube Channels at Once

Add as many channels as you need to the three input lists. The YouTube Community Posts Scraper combines them and saves up to maxposts posts from every unique channel in one run.

• tseries, @tseries and https://www.youtube.com/@tseries become the same page and are scraped once.
• A channel entered by handle and again by channel ID resolves to two pages, so it is scraped twice.
• Letter case matters, so spell a handle the same way in every field.

📌 Note: Posts are saved channel by channel. Use channel_id or source_url to group or filter YouTube Community Posts Scraper results later.

🆔 Can You Scrape YouTube Community Posts by Channel ID?

Yes. Put IDs starting with UC into Channel IDs, and the YouTube Community Posts Scraper converts each one to the channel's posts page. This is handy when your channel list lives in a database or CRM. Every item carries channel_id, so you can join results to your own records.

💰 YouTube Community Posts Scraper Pricing

The YouTube Community Posts Scraper uses pay-per-result pricing: you pay for the posts saved to the dataset. The current price is shown on the Actor's Pricing tab in Apify Store.

Cost factor	How to control it
Posts per channel	Lower maxposts
Number of channels	Include only the channels you need
Duplicate inputs	Don't add the same channel by both handle and ID
Channels that fail	They are skipped and add no rows

💰 Estimate: Maximum results per run = unique channels × maxposts. Channels with fewer posts than the limit return fewer results.

🔧 Tips for the YouTube Community Posts Scraper

• Start small: test the YouTube Community Posts Scraper on one channel with maxposts set to 5.
• Monitor on a schedule: run the YouTube Community Posts Scraper weekly with a small limit and compare post_id values to spot new posts.
• Use integer fields: sort and chart like_count, comment_count and total_votes.
• Treat dates as approximate: published_time is calculated from text like 2 months ago.

📌 Note: The YouTube Community Posts Scraper collects posts that are publicly visible on a channel's Posts tab. Use the data in line with YouTube's Terms of Service and applicable privacy laws.

❓ YouTube Community Posts Scraper FAQ

❔ What is a YouTube Community Posts Scraper?

A YouTube Community Posts Scraper reads the posts a channel publishes on its Posts tab and turns them into structured data such as text, engagement metrics, images and hashtags.

❔ Can I scrape YouTube community posts without an API key?

Yes. The YouTube Community Posts Scraper needs no YouTube API key and no login, only channels and a post limit.

❔ How many posts can I get from one channel?

Up to your maxposts value. The YouTube Community Posts Scraper keeps loading older posts until it reaches that number or the channel has no more.

❔ Does it extract poll options?

The YouTube Community Posts Scraper marks polls with post_type: "poll" and is_poll: true and returns the total vote count, but not the individual options or percentages.

❔ Does the YouTube Community Posts Scraper download images?

No. It returns image URLs with width and height, which you can use to download the files.

❔ Can I schedule the YouTube Community Posts Scraper and use it via API?

Yes. Create a schedule in Apify Console, start runs and fetch datasets through the Apify API, and connect webhooks or integrations to send YouTube Community Posts Scraper data to other tools.

❔ Why did a channel return zero posts?

The channel may have no community posts, the handle may be misspelled, or the start URL may point to a single post, another tab or a link with extra parameters. Pages the YouTube Community Posts Scraper could not load are noted in the run log.

💬 Support

• 🐞 Found a bug or need a new field in the YouTube Community Posts Scraper? Open a ticket in the Issues tab.
• 📧 Contact me by email: alphascraper69@gmail.com