YouTube Channel Search Scraper - Find Channels by Keyword

Find YouTube channels by keyword, exactly as the YouTube search does when you filter by channel, without an API key or quota. Type the topics you care about and get one row per channel with name, @handle, subscriber count, number of videos, description, thumbnail, verified badge and link, up to 200 channels per query. Creator discovery, influencer sourcing, competitor mapping, niche research and lead lists for channel owners at $0.001 per channel.

The Actor reads the same internal search endpoint the YouTube website uses for visitors. It never bypasses logins, CAPTCHAs or rate limits.

What you get

Channel (one row each): channelId, url, handle, name, subscribersText and subscribers (approximate, as YouTube shows them), videoCountText and videoCount (when shown), description, thumbnailUrl, verified.

Source: query and position in the results. Changes on scheduled runs: isNew is true for channels that were not in the previous run of the same query.

Queries without results return a row with an error field and are not charged.

How to use it

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Add Search queries, one per line (up to 500 per run): web scraping, vegan recipes, crypto trading.
3. Set Max channels per query (pages of 20, up to 200).
4. Click Start and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
5. Schedule the Actor to be told when new channels appear for a topic.

Input

{
  "queries": ["web scraping", "vegan recipes"],
  "maxChannels": 50
}

Output

{
  "query": "web scraping",
  "position": 1,
  "channelId": "UCjMgaGqd-C43dhx_-w-Dy9A",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@UltimateWebScraper",
  "handle": "@UltimateWebScraper",
  "name": "Ultimate Web Scraper",
  "subscribersText": "26.2K subscribers",
  "subscribers": 26200,
  "videoCountText": null,
  "videoCount": null,
  "description": "Ultimate Web Scraper: extract data from any website...",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo",
  "verified": false,
  "isNew": false,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-27T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per channel and $0.002 per new channel detected on a scheduled run. Queries that cannot be read are free. 200 channels for each of 50 queries cost $10.00.

Limits and notes

• Subscriber counts are the rounded values YouTube shows publicly; the video count appears only when YouTube includes it in the result.
• Results follow YouTube's own ranking for the query and the US English edition of the site.
• For the videos of a channel use the YouTube Channel Videos Scraper; for channel statistics the YouTube Channel Stats Scraper.

Related Actors

• YouTube Channel Videos Scraper, YouTube Channel Stats Scraper, YouTube Search Scraper, YouTube Video Details Scraper.