# YouTube Scraper – Channel Videos, Shorts & Search (`anatolia-data/youtube-channel-search-scraper`) Actor

Scrape every video, Short and live stream from YouTube channels, or the results of any YouTube search: title, views, duration, publish date, thumbnail and channel. Add full details (exact views, likes, comment count, description, hashtags) when you need them. No API key, no quota. Pay per video.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/anatolia-data/youtube-channel-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Oğulcan Katmer](https://apify.com/anatolia-data) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 videos

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## YouTube Scraper – Channel Videos, Shorts & Search

Get every video, Short and past live stream from any YouTube channel, or the results of any YouTube search, as clean rows. Each row has the title, views, duration, publish date, thumbnail and channel.

Turn on **full details** to also get exact view counts, likes, comment counts, the full description and hashtags.

No YouTube API key, no quota, no login.

### What you get

#### Per video, Short or stream

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `title`, `url`, `videoId`, `type` | `video`, `short` or `live` |
| `views`, `viewsText` | View count |
| `durationText`, `durationSeconds` | Length |
| `publishedText`, `publishedAtApprox` | "3 days ago" as shown on YouTube, and the approximate date |
| `thumbnailUrl` | Largest thumbnail |
| `channelName`, `channelId`, `channelUrl`, `channelVerified` | Who published it |
| `badges`, `descriptionSnippet` | 4K, CC, New … and the text YouTube shows in search |
| `source`, `position` | Which channel tab or search found it, and its rank |

#### With full video details

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `views` | Exact view count |
| `likes` | Like count |
| `commentCount` | Number of comments |
| `description` | Full description |
| `hashtags` | Hashtags used in the description |
| `publishDateText` | Publish date |
| `channelSubscribers` | The channel's subscriber count |

#### Per channel (free)

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `subscribers`, `videoCount` | Channel size |
| `handle` | The channel's @handle |
| `description`, `keywords` | What the channel says about itself |
| `emailsInDescription` | Business emails the creator published in the channel description |
| `avatarUrl` | Channel picture |

### Input

```json
{
  "channels": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips"],
  "channelTabs": ["videos", "shorts"],
  "searchQueries": ["iphone 17 review"],
  "maxResults": 200,
  "maxAgeDays": 30,
  "includeVideoDetails": true
}
```

- **Channels**: use a handle, a link or a channel id.
- **Channel tabs**: `videos`, `shorts`, `streams`.
- **Search**: sort by relevance, upload date, views or rating.
- **Filters**:
  - Only the last N days. On channels, the run stops as soon as it reaches older uploads, so you don't pay for them.
  - A minimum view count.
  - Only videos, only Shorts, or only live streams.

### Common uses

- **Competitor and creator tracking.** Get every new upload and its views, on a daily schedule.
- **Influencer research.** Build a list of channels with subscribers, upload frequency and business emails.
- **Trend and content research.** See the top videos and Shorts for any keyword.
- **Datasets.** Titles, descriptions and engagement numbers for analysis or AI.

### Pairs well with

**[YouTube Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/anatolia-data/youtube-comments-scraper)**: once you have the videos, pull their comments and replies.

### Notes and limits

- View counts in channel lists are rounded by YouTube ("1.2M"). Turn on full details for exact numbers.
- Dates on YouTube are relative ("2 weeks ago"). `publishedAtApprox` converts them to an approximate date.
- Only public videos are collected. The scraper never logs in.
- This is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to YouTube or Google.

### Pricing

You pay per video returned. Full details are a separate event, charged only when you turn them on. Channel info rows and status rows are free. You can cap spend per run with **Max cost per run** in the Apify Console.

### Support

Something missing or wrong? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab with the input you used and the run ID.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

One per line: @handle, channel link (youtube.com/@name, /channel/UC…, /c/…, /user/…) or channel id. Video links pasted here are scraped as single videos.

## `channelTabs` (type: `array`):

Which tabs to read from each channel: videos, shorts, streams (past live streams).

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

One per line, exactly as you would type them into YouTube search.

## `videos` (type: `array`):

Video or Shorts links (or 11-character ids) to scrape with full details.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Channel or video links loaded from a file or another Actor.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many videos for each channel tab and each search.

## `searchSort` (type: `string`):

YouTube's own sort options for search.

## `maxAgeDays` (type: `integer`):

Skip older videos. On channels the run stops paging as soon as it reaches older uploads.

## `minViews` (type: `integer`):

Skip videos with fewer views.

## `onlyTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep only some result types: video, short, live. Leave empty for all.

## `includeVideoDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each video's page for exact view count, likes, comment count, full description and hashtags. Slower, and charged as an extra event per video.

## `includeChannelInfo` (type: `boolean`):

Add one free row per channel: subscribers, video count, description, emails published in the description, avatar.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code, e.g. en, de, tr.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code. Affects search results.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy is recommended.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many requests run at once.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "@mkbhd"
  ],
  "channelTabs": [
    "videos",
    "shorts"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [
    "iphone 17 review"
  ],
  "videos": [],
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "searchSort": "relevance",
  "minViews": 0,
  "onlyTypes": [],
  "includeVideoDetails": false,
  "includeChannelInfo": true,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All rows.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Open the dataset in a table view.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "@mkbhd"
    ],
    "channelTabs": [
        "videos",
        "shorts"
    ],
    "searchQueries": [
        "iphone 17 review"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("anatolia-data/youtube-channel-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "channels": ["@mkbhd"],
    "channelTabs": [
        "videos",
        "shorts",
    ],
    "searchQueries": ["iphone 17 review"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("anatolia-data/youtube-channel-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "@mkbhd"
  ],
  "channelTabs": [
    "videos",
    "shorts"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [
    "iphone 17 review"
  ]
}' |
apify call anatolia-data/youtube-channel-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,anatolia-data/youtube-channel-search-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/WHws8fY2JURzcDYTS/builds/zUu3g11swXAkoxpTb/openapi.json