YouTube Channel Analyzer — Earnings & Growth | $1/1K

YouTube Channel Analyzer turns a channel handle, URL, ID, or video URL into a structured channel-intelligence report. Analyze subscribers, views, estimated earnings, growth, upload activity, recent videos, audience signals, similar channels, and forecasts in bulk without login or cookies.

$1 per 1,000 successful reports on paid Apify plans · $2/1K on Free · Pay per result · JSON, CSV, Excel, API and webhook-ready

Why use this YouTube channel analyzer?

• Channel or video input — resolve a report from @handle, channel URL, channel ID, watch URL, short URL, or Shorts URL.
• Earnings calculator — estimate daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly revenue ranges from public view signals.
• Growth intelligence — inspect history, subscriber and view changes, upload patterns, channel score, and forecast milestones.
• Content research — review recent videos, engagement, outlier signals, content mix, video duration, and upload cadence.
• Audience signals — receive clearly labeled language and country estimates from an available public-comment sample.
• Competitor discovery — include similar channels for manual niche and creator comparison.
• Bulk and fast modes — choose a full report or core statistics for larger lists.
• Clean billing — failed lookups are stored separately and are never charged as channel reports.

Input

{
  "targets": [
    "@northstarstudio",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@harborlab",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example1234"
  ],
  "historyDays": "28",
  "fastMode": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Field	Description
targets	Channel handles, URLs, IDs, or video URLs; exact duplicates are removed
historyDays	Optional day-by-day history: 0, 7, 14, 28, 90, or 365 days
fastMode	Return core channel identity, totals, averages, and estimated earnings without deeper sections
maxConcurrency	Parallel channel lookups from 1 to 50
proxyConfiguration	Recommended for resilient large bulk runs; Apify datacenter proxy is sufficient

An empty input runs one free demonstration report. A user-supplied successful target is charged once.

What you get

Identity and reach

Field	Description
channelId, handle, channelName, channelUrl	Normalized channel identity
subscribers, totalViews, videoCount	Public channel totals, which may be rounded by YouTube
niche, country, dateCreated, verified	Available public classification and account details
globalSubscribersRank, globalViewsRank	Available comparative ranking signals

Earnings and performance

Field	Description
dailyAvg, weeklyAvg, monthlyAvg, yearlyAvg	Views, subscriber changes, and estimated revenue ranges by period
monthlyRevenueLowUsd, monthlyRevenueHighUsd	Flat monthly range fields for CSV and spreadsheet workflows
yearlyRevenueLowUsd, yearlyRevenueHighUsd	Flat yearly range fields
estimatedRpmUsd	Estimated revenue-per-thousand-view range derived from the public estimate
uploadsPerWeek, avgViewsPerVideo90d	Upload activity and recent view-performance signals

Growth, content, and audience

Field	Description
dailyStats, growth	Available day-by-day data and period growth summary
channelScore	Explainable research heuristic combining reach, activity, engagement, and momentum
engagementRatePct, viewsPerSubscriber	Public recent-video interaction and audience-liveness estimates
recentVideos	Up to 10 recent videos with public performance and outlier signals
contentMix	Available long-form and Shorts mix by period
bestUploadDay, uploadsByWeekday	Publishing-pattern indicators derived from available history
audienceEstimate	Estimated languages and probable countries with the public-comment sample size
similarChannels	Up to 10 channels for competitor discovery
forecast	Available projected totals and upcoming milestones
isMonetized	Availability-dependent ad-presence signal for a sampled public video

Fictional output example

The values below describe a fictional channel and are provided only to illustrate the schema.

{
  "success": true,
  "input": "@northstarstudio",
  "channelName": "Northstar Studio",
  "handle": "northstarstudio",
  "niche": "Education",
  "subscribers": 1840000,
  "totalViews": 426500000,
  "videoCount": 318,
  "monthlyViewsEstimate": 42700000,
  "monthlyRevenueLowUsd": 42700,
  "monthlyRevenueHighUsd": 128100,
  "estimatedRpmUsd": {
    "lowUsd": 1.0,
    "highUsd": 3.0
  },
  "channelScore": 82,
  "engagementRatePct": 4.6,
  "uploadsPerWeek": 1.8,
  "bestUploadDay": "SATURDAY",
  "analyzedAt": "2026-08-26T18:00:00Z"
}

Fast mode or full mode?

Use fastMode: true for broad list enrichment where you primarily need channel identity, totals, upload frequency, and earnings averages. Use full mode when you need recent videos, similar channels, content mix, forecast, history, monetization signal, or audience estimate.

Optional sections can be unavailable for a particular channel or run. Always design downstream automation to accept null, empty arrays, and availability-dependent samples.

Pricing

• Paid Apify plans: $0.001 per successful report — $1/1K.
• Free Apify plan: $0.002 per successful report — $2/1K.
• Platform resource and proxy usage are paid by the user and shown separately by Apify.
• Invalid and unresolved targets are stored in ERRORS and do not create a result charge.
• Exact duplicate inputs are processed once.
• The built-in empty-input demo is not charged.

Use cases

• Creator research: compare public reach, activity, engagement, growth, and estimated earnings before manual review.
• Influencer marketing: shortlist channels and verify public evidence before sponsorship outreach.
• Competitor intelligence: discover adjacent channels, recent content, upload cadence, and outlier videos.
• Niche research: compare estimated RPM ranges, content mix, and public growth signals across a category.
• Channel monitoring: schedule repeat runs and store snapshots in a warehouse or spreadsheet.
• Lead enrichment: add public channel intelligence to an authorized creator or company list.

Important limitations

• Earnings are estimates, not YouTube Studio revenue or proof of creator income. Geography, niche, ad inventory, Premium revenue, seasonality, sponsorships, and other factors can materially change actual earnings.
• YouTube publicly rounds subscriber counts. subscribersLive, when present, is also an estimate and not an exact private counter.
• Audience countries are inferred from sampled public comment languages and can be incomplete or biased; they are not demographic measurements.
• isMonetized is an availability-dependent ad-presence signal and can vary by video, viewer region, consent state, and time.
• channelScore is a research heuristic, not a platform grade, credit score, fraud score, or quality verdict.
• Forecasts extrapolate observed public trends and do not predict future creative performance.
• Optional history, ranking, video, forecast, and audience fields may be missing temporarily.

Responsible use

Use public channel data for lawful research and authorized workflows. Do not use estimates as the sole basis for employment, credit, insurance, housing, or other high-impact decisions. Avoid spam, harassment, sensitive-trait inference, and misleading claims about creator income or audience demographics.

FAQ

Does the YouTube channel analyzer require login or cookies?

No. Input does not include a YouTube login, cookie, or third-party analytics API-key field.

Can I analyze a channel from one of its videos?

Yes. Paste a watch, shortened, embed, or Shorts URL and the Actor resolves the channel behind the video.

Are the earnings exact?

No. They are transparent public-data estimates and should be presented as ranges, not verified income.

Are failed channels charged?

No. Only a successfully delivered Dataset report creates the result event. Failure details are stored separately in ERRORS.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes. Apify Dataset exports include JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, API access, and webhook integrations.

Support

For an incomplete report, open an issue with the Actor run ID and a non-sensitive public channel example. Do not publish private lists, credentials, or customer data.

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